I’ve started from post 1 and gone through all of the thread.  I have to
admit to not understanding most of it.  I am a tecchie, but tends to be
Windows related and some high level networking.  No experience of
streaming technologies.

_SYSTEM_OVERVIEW_
My system is Fujitsu ESPRIMO E3521
Inter Core 3 Quad running at 2.83ghz
4GB RAM
Windows 10 x64 1607
Wired Ethernet, reserved IP address
It’s pretty much sat there doing little else.

I am in the UK on a Virgin Media 70mbps link.

I am using Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0
BBC iPlayer plugin v 1.5.2
BBC iPlayer Extras plugin v 1.9.5
I’ve been using SBS and LMS for nearing 6-8 years, so it’s entirely
possible that there is junk in the configuration somewhere, as I’ve
upgraded a number of OSes, SBS /LMS and likely plugin versions and
settings over the years.

My players are:
Boom – wifi
Boom 2 – wifi
Duet Lounge – wired
I also had a couple of wired SB3s, but they have not been connected for
months.  The issue was also present using these players.

They are normally all synced with each other, but for testing purposes
I’ve set them all as No Sync. 
Whilst players are not synced I’ve used both the wifi Boom and the wired
Duet as the test players.
I get the same issue seemingly whether synchronised or not or wired or
not.

_THE_ISSUE_
I always use BBC iPlayer steams via my Favourites.  Whenever I choose a
BBC iPlayer stream, the stream may (or may not) start and within seconds
will go quiet and ‘Buffering n%’ is displayed.  Audio may well start for
a few seconds, or longer.  I never use the Extras plugin.  This
behaviour will continue for maybe up to 15-20 mins and sometimes will
then work for generally most of the day.  Changing to another BBC
iPlayer stream starts the issue all over again.

This was the issue I’ve had for many months, but it’s been getting
worse.  As a result, I’ve recently upgraded to the latest LMS server (it
was the old 7.5 from memory).  I did not know that there were updates as
the console was telling me I was at the latest version.  I had to
download the LMS update manually. 

I’ve also updated the BBC iPlayer and BBC iPlayer Extras plugins.  I had
the old repo URL so I updated using the betarelease-repo.xml URL.  I
can’t recall the old version, if this is important, then can you tell me
the location of any possible logs?
The Live and On Demand stream settings were set to 

HLS > MP3 > FlashAAC > FlashMP3

I’ve now changed them to 
DASH > HLS > MP3 > FlashAAC>

So now having updated the LMS and the plugins and changed to DASH, I’m
still having the same issues.  It does seem that it’s only the BBC
iPlayer streams that are affected.

I can play BBC and other radio streams from RadioTime without issue.  I
can play other streams from podcasts and If I select BBC streams from
BBC iPlayer Extras (which I wouldn’t normally use) they seem to play
immediately without issue.

*Separately, even after re-installing the plugins, I don’t get the BBC
iPlayer on the menu when I connect to the web console, but I do get BBC
iPlayer Extras.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Regards, Phil


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