BBC iPlayer: No items found in playlist

[ovonrein]

Once again the .ram stream from the BBC have stopped working. Error message currently is "no items found in playlist". This has happened periodically and I would have to rummage around to establish the new URLs after the BBC shuffled their servers. This time, no joy. Wherever I look, references are always to the old eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1.ram. This is also the URL that the iPlayer plugin wants to navigate to when selecting Internet Radio/BBC iPlayer/Listen Live/BBC Radio 1. I don't run RealPlayer on my network so I unfortunately have no idea whether this stream actually works.

My Slim Server is 7.3.2; iPlayer 0.9f.

PS: Loading the URL into notepad results in the following
rtsp://rmlegacy-acl.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlegacy-acl/farm/live24/bbc_ami/radio1/radio1_nb_live.ra?BBC-UID=24577493df9ef7b4e6cea04310b0fbbeee57efc4c00090 832b5acfd5e09a7105&SSO2-UID=
That is, the address DOES actually resolve. The stream does still exist.

[bpa]

BBCiPlayer does not play RealAudio (i.e. .ram, rtsp) streams.

Forget about the RealAudio streams as the BBC are closing them all down by March 2010.

Use the Live WMA streams or the live AAC streams using BBCiPlayer.

[ovonrein]

I am delighted to hear that the BBC are finally giving up on the Real format. It's been a pain in the lower backside all along. Mind, I am using the BBC iPlayer 0.9f plug-in, which is, as far as I can make out, the recommended method for tuning into the BBC. And navigating via "Internet Radio/BBC iPlayer/Listen Live/BBC Radio 1" gets me a .ram stream. Is there sthg that I am doing wrong? Do I need to configure that plug-in so that it chooses a different format/URL?

[ovonrein]

Correction: Navigating via the iPlayer plug-in takes me to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1.asx - which still gives me the aforementioned "Error: No items found in playlist".

[bpa]

I think you have a bad installation - the BBCiPlayer plugin will never get a .ram URL. That said - you cannot play the AAC streams on 7.3.2 - to use BBCiPlayer you need 7.3.3 at very least so I think you have a plugin mixup issue.

Why do you not use the Internet Radio/More Radio/BBC to play live WMA BBC streams - no load on server.

System info also helps
* What OS
* Are you in UK or outside UK

[ovonrein]

And http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1.asx actually streams fine in WMP. So sthg's definitely awry with my SqueezeCenter...

[ovonrein]

I think you have a bad installation - the BBCiPlayer plugin will never get a .ram URL.

Agreed - see my correction.

to use BBCiPlayer you need 7.3.3 at very least so I think you have a plugin mixup issue.

I hate to say this (it's such a cliché) but ... it worked up until a few days ago.

* What OS
* Are you in UK or outside UK

Win XP SP3, in UK.

Thanks.

[bpa]

Put the ASX URL in the Web UI Internet Radio /Tune-in box and see if it plays.

If it doesn't then it is a BBC problem.

[ovonrein]

If it doesn't then it is a BBC problem.

I don't think it's that simple since, as I wrote in post #4, Radio 1 streams fine in WMP. Tune-In yields the same "Error: No items found in playlist".

[bpa]

The "no items in playlist" typically for the following reasons

1. Network timeout because BBC is slow in responding or network congestion - a workaround is to increase radio station timeout (e.g. WebUI Settings/Advanced/Network)
2. PC security s/w is interfering with SC operation.