agbagb wrote: > Thanks for taking the time for looking at it all! Puzzling. Two > things: > > - The VPN being blocked is odd (reminder: I use NordVPN; I'll try and > test a different one in due course). Simultaneously with running the > VPN-enabled radio tests, I was downloading the latest Bodyguard TV > episode via the BBC online iPlayer app! Odd to think that genteel R3 is > fussier than the money-hungry TV folks! > I'm puzzled too - what I needed to confirm that the plugin itself was working under normal conditions. So the issues is somehow related to thetype of VPN. I wonder whether the VPN "knows" about BBCiPlayer app and WebUI (e.g. via the Http UserAgent headers) and takes special measures. I'm looking around to see if other info about NordVPN.
> - I don't understand the CDN thing.... Can you let me know exactly what > I am looking for, and where? CDN - Content Delivery Network. BBC don't own or run the many servers which needed to stream the data - they subcontract them to two CDNs: Akamai and Limelight Networks. When starting to playing a Live or Listen Again the BBC top level URL returns a choice of two URLs - an Akamai service or a Limelight service. BBCiPlayer plugin default chooses Akamai but in the main BBC Iplayer menu, at the bottom there are "alt CDN" menus which chooses Limelight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109434 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
