Re: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Fri May 12 08:56:09 BST 2017, Chris Marriott wrote: No mention of it on the iPlayer Radio site at all. Hi Chris :-) Trying to play AOD on the iPlayer Radio site from an overseas IP does not, yet, generate a "Sign in" prompt - AIUI, this will also change in the near future...

RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Andy Wedge
> On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip > Sent: 12 May 2017 17:42 > > Does anyone thing that a fake DOB (which random values are what I give to > most organisations that ask for DOB), or an incorrect gender will come back > to bite me? > >M F trans-one-way trans-the-other

RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2017-05-12 16:21, Andy Wedge wrote: I've just tried to play Casualty from the iPlayer site as a test. I was asked to register with a DOB, Postcode, Email address and gender identification so changes have already happened. I don't see that your DOB or gender are the Beeb's business. I

Re: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Chris Marriott
No problems at all here. Created an account. Logged in. Programmes playing fine. Chris -Original Message- From: Andy Wedge Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 4:21 PM To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer I've just tried to play

Re: RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread tellyaddict
> I've just tried to play Casualty from the iPlayer site as a test. I was > asked to register with a DOB, Postcode, Email address and gender > identification so changes have already happened. The subsequent > playback though was terrible. I could hear the audio OK but the video > was more a

RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Andy Wedge
> On Behalf Of James Scholes > Sent: 12 May 2017 11:19 > To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer > Also quite likely, though, is that nothing at all will change. I can't imagine that > the BBC will force viewers using t

Re: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Jim web
FWIW before seeing all the emails on this topic I used 3.01 for the first time this morning and fetched a 320k audio file of yesterday's "Inside Science" programme. The only change I needed to make was the mode spec as my previous version of gip used one that is now obsolete. Given the above

Re: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Alex
Not a rewrite - just some code that'll prompt auth against the iPlayer site to allow content scraping, storage of the cookie, and passing the cookie each time (i.e. a persistent session). If re-authentication is needed, then prompt the auth again. All this will be for is scraping the iPlayer

RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread d.lake
BC has added password controls to iPlayer Please stop this noise now. It is nothing to do with get_iplayer and not very interesting. Regards to all. Hugh --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/ant

RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Hugh Reynolds
Agreed. It might. It might rain today. Useful? Interested? That's my last noise on the subject. Regards Hugh --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ get_iplayer mailing list

RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Hugh Reynolds
Please stop this noise now. It is nothing to do with get_iplayer and not very interesting. Regards to all. Hugh --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ get_iplayer mailing list

Re: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Chris Marriott
- From: CJB Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 7:28 AM To: get_iplayer-request Subject: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer The BBC has added password controls to iPlayer, forcing viewers to register in order to watch its programmes. From today iPlayer users will need to provide the BBC

Re: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Rob Wood
al Message- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of CJB Sent: 12 May 2017 07:28 To: get_iplayer-request Subject: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer The BBC has added password controls to iPlayer, forcing viewers to register in order to watch its

RE: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread Simon Morgan
this list - finger trouble! > -Original Message- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On > Behalf Of CJB > Sent: 12 May 2017 07:28 > To: get_iplayer-request > Subject: BBC has added password controls to iPlayer > > The BBC has

BBC has added password controls to iPlayer

2017-05-12 Thread CJB
The BBC has added password controls to iPlayer, forcing viewers to register in order to watch its programmes. >From today iPlayer users will need to provide the BBC with their name, date of birth, email address and home address if they want to use the service. They will then have to log in w