danco wrote: 
> I have various problems with BBC iPlayer Listen Again streams cutting
> out (stopping completely, not just rebuffering) that I am fairly sure
> are due to problems at my ISP.
> 
> However, a new issue has come up in the last couple of days, using
> iPlayer Extra Listen Again.
> 
> The stream will suddenly stop producing sound, and the Now Playing 
> display will recycle the time. That is the time remaining will show
> (say) 20 minutes 45 seconds, count down to 20 minutes 40 seconds and
> then go back to 20.45 and again. What's happening here, and can I do
> anything about it?
> 
> I've found Listen Again hopelessly unreliable since the BBC change in
> February (was that when it was), with programs just stopping in the
> middle, but that does seem to be my ISP not coping with the repeated
> change in URL that I gather the new chunking method uses. I am in the
> UK..


Listen Again with iPlayerExtra plugin uses Flash / RTMP. Listen Again
from the BBCiPlayer plugin uses HLS.  So if you are having problem with
two different protocols -it looks like a "local" issue which makes it
harder to find becasue you'll have to do the legwork.

Do iPlayer plugin live HLS streams play OK ?

When testing also include playing a program from Browser (set up for
Flash not HTML5) just as a sanity check.

To see why the streams are stopping you'll need to enable some logging.
Initially plugin logging but later it'll probably require a few other
modules to be logged to be more definitive.For Extra playback enable
plugin.bbciplayer.rtmp ot Info.  For iPlayerplugin enable 
plugin.bbciplayer.hls to Info.

Usual procedure.  Note time. Try playing a stream.  Wait about 30 secs
after fault has happened and note time again.  Copy log message between
start and stop time into text file, zip and attach to a post.


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