On 27/08/17 17:34, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
On Sun Aug 27 14:18:36 BST 2017, cc wrote:
can the use of a vpn limit the number of recording qualities available?
(snip) I managed to get1280.x720 def on 25 aug
(snip) it is now proving impossible for the various downloads I have
tried.
... Probably the same issue (unless cc=Gautier) :
https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/thread-1488-newpost.html
i.e. hlshd not appearing inside available tvmodes for an overseas user
(and inferred use of a VPN...). FWIW, many UK inhabitants and licence
fee payers do use a VPN service for privacy and other reasons; this is
also not allowed by the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/in_the_uk_message
If you are using a VPN and are in the UK, try disabling to see if that
helps. If we detect you might be using a VPN, you'll be unable to play
programmes. This is because we're unable to detect the end point of
your private network; we need to be confident you're in the UK.
For the past two years, after news broke that several millions of
Chinese netizens were (ab)using iPlayer, the BBC is under a constant
battle against commercial VPN/ VPS/Proxy/SSL Tunnel services - remember,
it's quite easy to spot a VPN server (since in the UK the commercial
ones are usually to be found in known Data Centres with known IP pools),
especially since a lot of iPlayer traffic appears to be requested by a
single IP address. If you're using a VPN service or like, expect it to
be blocked at any time; it's unwise to post about it here in the list,
am afraid no help could be (/is allowed to be) offered to you... And
it's certainly most unwise to post about it in the Forums, where 1. it's
against their rules 2. they do IP checks of registered members (if not
in the UK). Take your issue directly with your VPN provider...
FWIW, when the BBC blacklist VPN IPs, they usually start with their
mediaselector API URLs, so you do get blocked at the door, resulting in
no streams at all offered to you... Selectively blocking only hlshd but
allowing other streams to appear sounds a bit iffy; that means that the
Akamai CDN server (serving the hlshd stream) itself blocks the VPN IP,
but why would the BBC do that, if other streams could still be accessed?
Most probably it's an issue with the VPN itself and its configuration,
so as Gautier surmised
So clearly there must be something wrong on my end.
On Sun Aug 27 16:43:21 BST 2017, d.lake wrote:
Don't use a VPN - use an HTTP proxy. That way you'll get full download
speed from a local CDN at the full range of bit-rates.
Hi, you appear to be in the UK, so I suspect your recommendation to use
an HTTP(S) proxy is for those in the UK with privacy concerns... In the
very remote chance your advice is for non-UK users, then in that case
there's not a big difference between a UK VPN and a UK proxy speedwise;
all TV streams are blocked currently at CDN server level, so they have
to be redirected fully through the VPN/HTTP server... The above info is
disclosed for pure "academic" reasons... I suppose I (and other members)
should stop this discussion here, so as to not upset even further the
high powers that be...
Regards
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Surely the point of all this is that if you are in UK and pay the
license fee you should be able to access BBC content and GIP without
using a VPN to do that.
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