PasTim wrote: > If there's an error in the information in the thread on getting > BBCiPlayer working can you let me know so I can correct it?
There is no mention of the DNS issue in the first two posts which AFAICT summarise what a user needs to do to get the plugin working. That said, the issue is not clear cut and so at this stage it will be hard to give definitive advice or even a guaranteed solution. I'm not exactly sure of Wigster's problems. Wigster is a non UK listener. I think there are "rebuffering " issue as well as stream stalling. I believe Wigster's problems are nothing to do with processor power, network capacity, LMS/plugin up to date or faad. It seem unlikely that another plugin is a cause as there is only one player. I have had days where a live (non UK) streams suddenly stopping after playing for a while and other days where there are no issues. All other aspects of server/network are identical so it is something to do with how BBC is serving the HLS stream. Using logging I determined the problem is that when a HTTP Get for next chunk would fail due to "timeout" the plugin is designed to terminate the stream. The timeout is determined by the Settings.Advanced/Radio Station Timeout. Increasing it helps a bit but does not eliminate the problem. The following are my observations as a non UK listener and this is important as I think the "dynamics" may be different for UK vs non-UK listeners. 1. Radio Station Timeout may have an effect especially if it is set short possibly less than 3 secs. 2. Plugin needs to be modified so that one timeout does not terminate stream. That said, when I implemented multiple timeouts I think DNS issue possibly caching also affected timeout. 3. IP address for same BBC DNS names of HLS stream change quickly and often. Other users have noted that slow DNS servers or DNS server that like to cache can cause problems playing HLS streams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
