On 28/02/2020 17:16, Nic Siddle wrote:
May be totally unconnected, but we have found that i-Player is getting
less and less reliable when just watching catchup TV through a cheap
NowBox.. Buffering issues, often grinding to complete halt leading to
need to re-start. We do not experience the same problems with ITV or
Channels 4 & 5. I have my suspicion that the BBC is a lot more
resource hungry and that our i-net connection struggles to cope. But I
am guessing......
Nic
On 28/02/2020 06:42, Dave Widgery wrote:
Hi
For many years I have used get_iplayer very successfully for
downloading bbc content (thanks to all who maintain it) but a year ago
I got a firestick and thought that I would be able to use that rather
than downloading everything with get_iplayer, but I was wrong. ITV
hub, Channel4, UKtv and many other players all work fine with live and
replay content (with just the occasional error), but not bbc iplayer
75-80% of the time I get the purple worm then it errors, usually with
a "something went wrong loading this program", also if playing live tv
it has lots of buffering problems, does anyone else experience this
sort of unreliability with iplayer.
I am using a proxy server but it is not showing any errors that might
be associated with that. I am not really asking for a fix, I was just
wondering if it was just me or is bbc iplayer just not very reliable?
or at least the firestick version.
Dave
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Could it be that Sky and Amazon don't keep a very well maintained verson
of iPlayer on their devices ? They being rivals of the BBC.
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