On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 22:59, James Scholes <ja...@jls-radio.com> wrote:
> All that being said, there appears to be something blocking GiP from > accessing Bidi. Maybe it needs authentication now, maybe it's just broken. > Who knows. Either way, blocking Bidi requests should never lessen the > effectiveness of GiP, because it has two other suppliers to choose from. > Bidi is a relatively new effort from the BBC, and before it came along, GiP > only had access to two and there was never a problem. It might be worth keeping an eye on changes to the iPlayer Kodi plugin, which seems to still be being maintained: https://github.com/vonH/plugin.video.iplayerwww/ (To answer OP - yes, I am seeing more and more "blocked" messages recently.) S. On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 22:59, James Scholes <ja...@jls-radio.com> wrote: > > Also, just to add: the BBC hosts content across three content delivery > networks (CDNs). One in-house (Bidi) and two third party (Akamai and > Limelight). This creates redundancy and a geographical spread. Even though > Bidi is the BBC's own offering, and used exclusively for UK-based users, they > wouldn't want to rely on it alone. So the other two, Akamai and Limelight, > also host content for UK viewers. > > The ability to exclude (or only include) certain suppliers within GiP > downloads was, I believe, introduced to permit the fastest possible > downloads. If users find that they're downloads from, say, Limelight are far > slower than those from akamai or Bidi, they can block them. By default, GiP > will do something to determine one to use from all three, although I'm not > sure what. It could be random, it could be based on the order returned by > the BBC's media selector service, or there may be a specific priority list. > > All that being said, there appears to be something blocking GiP from > accessing Bidi. Maybe it needs authentication now, maybe it's just broken. > Who knows. Either way, blocking Bidi requests should never lessen the > effectiveness of GiP, because it has two other suppliers to choose from. > Bidi is a relatively new effort from the BBC, and before it came along, GiP > only had access to two and there was never a problem. > > Note: this is all supposition; I don't work and have never worked for the > BBC, nor have I ever actively contributed to GiP's code. > > Regards, > > James Scholes > > On 26/04/2021 at 3:58 pm, George Muter wrote: > > I've just tried this out on a couple of Fawlty Towers episodes currently > > available. The first with the exclude-supplier bidi command and the second > > without it. What surprised me was that the first, which did exclude the 403 > > errors, downloaded at 170mb/s whilst the second without the bidi command > > downloaded at 25 mb/s for the same quality video. I'm just a simple user but > > am I right in assuming that bidi refers to bi-directional? In which case is > > something being lost in the download - reliability?? > > > > Regards > > > > George Muter > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: get_iplayer <get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org> On Behalf Of > > James Scholes > > Sent: 26 April 2021 20:12 > > To: get_iplayer-request <get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org> > > Subject: Re: Failing to download msg > > > > The message explicitly says to ignore it if the program is downloaded > > successfully. If for some reason you are closely monitoring the output of > > GiP and it's getting in the way, you can exclude the CDN that is generating > > the errors: > > > > get_iplayer --exclude-supplier bidi ... > > > > ... which doesn't prompt the error in my very basic testing. You can also > > add that to your preferences or presets, although the syntax for doing that > > easily escapes me at the moment. > > > > Regards, > > > > James Scholes > > > > On 26/04/2021 at 1:15 pm, Chris Brady wrote: > >> Yes - I get these all of the time. CJB > >> > >> On 26/04/2021, fred.d <fre...@timelords.org.uk> wrote: > >>> I've noticed an increase over the past few months in getting the > >>> failed to download messages see sample after this message, which is > >>> the last error then success. > >>> > >>> Initially before Christmas it was every so often. Jan and Feb it > >>> moved to repeat once or twice on most of the downloads with a few not > >>> an issue but all download OK. In the last couple of months it's been > >>> every file fail message twice then downloads OK. Today I had a couple > >>> with 5 fails then downloads OK. > >>> > >>> I appreciate that the program says ignore the message if it downloads > >>> and my downloads are successful... > >>> > >>> However I was wondering if anyone else is getting the same level of > >>> response as I am and if so, does anyone actually know why the > >>> frequency might be increasing. > >>> > >>> Asking partly because I just like to know these sorts of things but > >>> also partly because if it's something to do with my setup I'd like to > >>> get it back to "normal". > >>> > >>> I haven't changed the config options for about 2 years so I'm > >>> presuming it's more likely changes at the remote end. I could > >>> speculate but I'm wondering if anyone knows. > >>> > >>> Ta. > >>> > >>> ------ > >>> > >>> ERROR: Failed to download URL (3/3): > >>> https://c1b1bteaips.sp.bidi.live.bbc.co.uk/vod-hls-uk/usp/auth/vod/pi > >>> ff_abr_full_sd/dcfde3-p07kvctj/vf_p07kvctj_a > >>> 8cac489-bdda-483f-ae0d-27d3d7ddf42b.ism/pc_hd_abr_v2_hls_master.m3u8? > >>> at=Ww262mGZ7a1dc6a235e548cffcab8cc34065bf98ee8f60005c0e34bc71240 > >>> ERROR: Response: 403 Forbidden > >>> ERROR: Access to this resource was blocked by the BBC > >>> ERROR: Ignore this error if programme download is successful > >>> INFO: Downloading tv: 'Silent Witness: Series 5 - 06. Faith, Part 2 > >>> (p032kkx2) [original]' > >>> INFO: Downloaded: 658.19 MB (00:49:54) @ 21.49 Mb/s (hvfxsd1/bi) > >>> [audio+video] > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> get_iplayer mailing list > >>> get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > >>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > >>> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > get_iplayer mailing list > > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
