BBCiPlayer V1.6 (and higher) & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher) Support

[bpa]

I've started a new thread for BBCiPlayer and BBCiPlayerEXtra in the hope users will not add to old topics/threads which are longer relevant, very long and make it hard to find solutuions.

This thread deal with BBCiPlayer 1.6 (and higher) and BBCiPlayerExtra 2.0 (and higher)

Install instructions;
* Open LMS Web UI - Settings / Plugins tab
* at bottom of Plugins tab find the box "Additional Repositories"
* Add the following repo URL to the "Additional Repositories" and click Apply
http://bpa-code.github.io/bpaplugins/betarelease-repo.xml

* LMS may need restarting.
* At bottom of Plugins tab - there should be a section "bpa - BBCiPlayer with BBC DASH support" with entries for BBCiplayer and BBCiPlayerExtra. Check the box on left hand side and click Apply.
* LMS may need restarting.
* If successful BBCiPlayer and BBCiPlayer plugins should appear in the "Active Plugins" list


29-Dec-18
Release notes for BBCiPlayer 1.6.2 & BBCiPlayerExtra 2.2.0
- Eliminate live stream start delay on Windows - requires LMS 7.9.1 July 2018 and later.
- Listen Again in HLS format works again thanks to mrw.
- Fix to displaying some characters in metadata (UTF8 handling error)
- Fix to stop the very many erroneous "Invalid Estimated delay" messages in log when live stream paused for more than 3 hours.
- Live Events & Cymru2 (no logo available) added to menus

- BBCiPlayerExtra - fixes playing podcast through Touch, Radio and other "new" client such as apps & Material but not longer shows picture when playing.
- BBCiPlayerExtra - Fix for parsing error for podcast on Windows.

1-Dec-18
Release notes for BBCiPlayer 1.6.1
- Many small changes provided by mrw such as remove repeated programmes, revert weekday format (i.e. no date), fixup icons, fixup bookmarking of series & fix missing duration on IP3K players "More Info".
- Change HLS playback to use HTTP 1.1. persistent connections which should reduce network load.
- Update to enable playing Listen Again in HLS (oct 18)
- Listen Again in HLS is broken again (403 forbidden) perhaps only for non UK (Nov 18)
- HLS and MP3 live stream now will show program metadata such as track info and program image (HLS & MP3 may be preferred for live streams due to v. small delay at start)
- Fix to reduce small pause in startup of DASH streams
- Fix to prevent "XXX mins delay" appearing incorrectly in program titles

Release notes for BBCiPlayerExtra 2.1.0
- A number of small changes to provides access to additional BBC material which now come under "BBC Sounds" heading
- More genres in "Latest" menu
- A few more stations in A-Z indexs
- Podcast access organised & sorted by station and also by genre. Requires Podcast plugin to be enabled.Makes it easier to find program than using BBC Podcast feed in Podcast plugin.

[bpa]

Reserved in case additional info is needed.

[DaveCheltenham]

Thanks again for all your work BPA which is very much appreciated. - Regards

[slackhead]

Hi bpa

Seems version 1.6.1 has broken the UK Live Streams.
This afternoon I updated from 1.6 and the streams have started to report 403 errors:

[18-12-02 17:35:06.2043] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::HLS::__ANON__ (122) Closing stream - Fetch HLS error HTTP status = 403 Reason: Forbidden
[18-12-02 17:35:06.8704] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (788) Aborting stream - fatal error fetching [241214374] Status=403 Reason: Forbidden Fetch time 111 ms 
[18-12-02 17:35:06.8711] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (789) Failed URL: http://as-dash-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_6/live/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/dash/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=320000-241214374.m4s
[18-12-02 17:35:07.6444] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (788) Aborting stream - fatal error fetching [0] Status=403 Reason: Forbidden Fetch time 887 ms 
[18-12-02 17:35:07.6451] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (789) Failed URL: http://as-dash-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_6/live/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/dash/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=320000.dash
[18-12-02 17:35:07.6477] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (788) Aborting stream - fatal error fetching [241214373] Status=403 Reason: Forbidden Fetch time 889 ms 
[18-12-02 17:35:07.6484] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (789) Failed URL: http://as-dash-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_6/live/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/dash/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=320000-241214373.m4s

The non-uk and the mp3 live streams work fine as do the listen again streams that I checked.
As a check, I manually reverted to 1.6 and the streams were OK, but failed again when returning to 1.6.1

[bpa]

Hi bpa

Seems version 1.6.1 has broken the UK Live Streams.
This afternoon I updated from 1.6 and the streams have started to report 403 errors:

[18-12-02 17:35:06.2043] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::HLS::__ANON__ (122) Closing stream - Fetch HLS error HTTP status = 403 Reason: Forbidden
[18-12-02 17:35:06.8704] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (788) Aborting stream - fatal error fetching [241214374] Status=403 Reason: Forbidden Fetch time 111 ms 
[18-12-02 17:35:06.8711] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (789) Failed URL: http://as-dash-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_6/live/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/dash/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=320000-241214374.m4s
[18-12-02 17:35:07.6444] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (788) Aborting stream - fatal error fetching [0] Status=403 Reason: Forbidden Fetch time 887 ms 
[18-12-02 17:35:07.6451] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (789) Failed URL: http://as-dash-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_6/live/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/dash/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=320000.dash
[18-12-02 17:35:07.6477] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (788) Aborting stream - fatal error fetching [241214373] Status=403 Reason: Forbidden Fetch time 889 ms 
[18-12-02 17:35:07.6484] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::DASH::__ANON__ (789) Failed URL: http://as-dash-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_6/live/bbc_radio_fourfm/bbc_radio_fourfm.isml/dash/bbc_radio_fourfm-audio=320000-241214373.m4s

The non-uk and the mp3 live streams work fine as do the listen again streams that I checked.
As a check, I manually reverted to 1.6 and the streams were OK, but failed again when returning to 1.6.1

Strange.

In the last week HLS Listen Again has gone 403 for me whereas DASH works OK.

No change in the URLs between 1.6.0 and 1.6.1

I made a change to reduce DASH live startup but I wonder if it is too cricitcal for UK 320kbps streams - doesn't explain the HLS 403 issue.

At least there is a fallback for the moment.

BTW what is your "Live stream preference" setting ?

[slartibartfast]

Strange.

In the last week HLS Listen Again has gone 403 for me whereas DASH works OK.

No change in the URLs between 1.6.0 and 1.6.1

I made a change to reduce DASH live startup but I wonder if it is too cricitcal for UK 320kbps streams - doesn't explain the HLS 403 issue.

At least there is a fallback for the moment.

BTW what is your "Live stream preference" setting ?

UK live dash streams work OK for me. I didn't change any settings just updated.

Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

[slackhead]

BTW what is your "Live stream preference" setting ?

It set to the default HLS > Dash > MP3 > FlashAAC > FlashMP3 and highest bitrate.

[mrw]

Strange.

In the last week HLS Listen Again has gone 403 for me whereas DASH works OK.

No change in the URLs between 1.6.0 and 1.6.1

Ditto, and I listen from the UK. However v1.6.0 HLS Listen Again is working.

Observation with WireShark shows that the v1.6.1 HLS.pm does not include cookies in its HTTP requests. These do seem to be essential. The following curl sequence demonstrates the point.

curl -L http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/vpid/m0001hgr/mediaset/audio-syndication/proto/http

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=128000,CODECS="mp4a.40.2",CLOSED-CAPTIONS=NONE
http://cp401492-vh.akamaihd.net/i/prod_af_mp4_aaclc_128/iplayerstream/p06s8wd1_m0001hgr_cUnknown_1544611782982.mp4/index_0_a.m3u8

curl -L http://cp401492-vh.akamaihd.net/i/prod_af_mp4_aaclc_128/iplayerstream/p06s8wd1_m0001hgr_cUnknown_1544611782982.mp4/index_0_a.m3u8

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Error</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
An error occurred while processing your request.<p>
Reference #199.34638251.1545060032.3a576095
</BODY></HTML>

Contrast with:

curl -L -b cook.txt -c cook.txt http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/vpid/m0001hgr/mediaset/audio-syndication/proto/http

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=128000,CODECS="mp4a.40.2",CLOSED-CAPTIONS=NONE
http://cp401492-vh.akamaihd.net/i/prod_af_mp4_aaclc_128/iplayerstream/p06s8wd1_m0001hgr_cUnknown_1544611782982.mp4/index_0_a.m3u8

curl -L -b cook.txt -c cook.txt  http://cp401492-vh.akamaihd.net/i/prod_af_mp4_aaclc_128/iplayerstream/p06s8wd1_m0001hgr_cUnknown_1544611782982.mp4/index_0_a.m3u8

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:YES
#EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:1
#EXTINF:10.000,
http://cp401492-vh.akamaihd.net/i/prod_af_mp4_aaclc_128/iplayerstream/p06s8wd1_m0001hgr_cUnknown_1544611782982.mp4/segment1_0_a.ts
#EXTINF:10.000,
http://cp401492-vh.akamaihd.net/i/prod_af_mp4_aaclc_128/iplayerstream/p06s8wd1_m0001hgr_cUnknown_1544611782982.mp4/segment2_0_a.ts

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[slartibartfast]

How do I play podcasts in iPlayer Extras. I have the podcast plugin installed but all I see is this.

Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

[bpa]

How do I play podcasts in iPlayer Extras. I have the podcast plugin installed but all I see is this.

Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Interesting - podcasts are playable from ipk3 and WebGUI. What UI are you using Ipeng or a tablet/phone app or material - is it using a JSON comet client ?