Getting iplayer to work outside uk
Fri, 08/08/2008 - 17:57 — Anonymous
Hi
I am trying to get the iplayer to work from outside of the UK. I still pay a license fee for the BBC as I still have a property there. Could anyone help in trying to configure foxyproxy.
Thanks very much in advance
Take a look here
http://www.showmethetelly.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2 will show you what you need to do.
Excellent tutorial! I've
Excellent tutorial! I've linked to it from http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/help.html and http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/faq.html#tv
Thanks again,
Eric Jung
Author
FoxyProxy
UK proxy server hostname + port difficulties
I have a list of UK proxy server IP addresses sent to me by a friend.
http://www.samair.ru/proxy/type-30.htm
In FoxyProxyOptions - Proxy Details - Host Name box, I need to enter a hostname and port number. Where do I get this information? Yep, I am a technonewbie! Help...I am trying to get BBC feeds in Canada.
Many thanks, Chris
PS. on a Mac OS10.4.11 with Firefox 3.03
Hi Chris, Use the IP address
Hi Chris,
Use the IP address column in your list. The hostname is the number before the colon; the port is the number after the colon. For example, using 61.220.112.236:3128 you'd enter 61.220.112.236 for the hostname and 3128 for the port.
HTH,
Eric
Done that - still not working
Thanks for your patience and explanation Eric. OK, I have got that now. Should I just try a few UK proxy servers until one works? Because right now BBC iPlayer just seems to be trying but not actually delivering anything. 'Transferring data from bbc.co.uk' etc. is the constant message in iPlayer but nothing ever starts (i.e. radio feed does not play).
What is the significance of the SOCKS tick boxes in FoxyProxy?
Many thanks, again.
Sounds like the proxy is
Sounds like the proxy is down or really, really slow. Get a more reliable UK proxy server. The SOCKS checkbox is used to specify that the proxy server is a SOCKS server instead of an HTTP server.
I still cant seem to get
I still cant seem to get iPlayer to work in the USA!!
can anyone help me out ??
thanks
Hi, did you read this
Hi, did you read this information? http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/faq.html#tv
There are step-by-step tutorials there on how to get iPlayer to work in the USA.
See also http://www.showmethetelly.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2
Re. BBC Five Live Radio
Firstly let me say I like the product and managed to view the BBC i player within 2 mins of download. The problem I have, and it's already been mentioned on this forum , is I can access the i player for tv programs but still cannot access the blocked sports content, i.e. Soccer, Cricket etc. on BBC Radio Five Live. I can listen to Five Live normally when there is no blocked content but as soon as a game starts it says its restricted.
The weird thing is the url is the same url as the i player for tv, which I can get. The radio attempts to play in i player but then refuses me, even though I manage to fool the same i player when requesting program video content. I've tried every possible combination for the urls and wild cards, still nothing.
Anyone have an idea why I can get one and not the other? As an aside, the radio does play in a real player by default.
Update:
After trying every different combination of Foxy during a two hour UK 'exclusive' game today I've narrowed this down a bit. Archived sports radio material available only to UK users on I Player is available to me, as is the video content. The 'problem' seems to be this: Live games on BBC radio Five Live are being streamed through Real Player, even if you go through I Player and I beleive its Real Player that's the problem.
So the question is, what is it in Real Player that is detecting my location, even when I'm using Foxy, when everything else doesn't detect it?
If you could please provide
If you could please provide a URL where I can watch one of the problematic games, I can tell you what the problem is. I don't live in the UK or watch the BBC over the web, so I don't know about all of the BBC offerings--please provide URLs.
Thanks,
Eric
Re URL's.
Eric
Thanks for your reply. the link is this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/sport/commentaries.shtml
If you go there on Tuesday or Wednesday at 8.00pm London time (12.00pm pst, 3.00pm est) thre is a game each evening that is 'UK Exclusive.' You can also locate the games in the I Player itself by clicking radio and going to Five Live.
You can also try http://www.whatson.com/wave1052/ anytime day or night, theyre UK based and block US i.P's
Many thanks.
I'll also take a look,
I'll also take a look, currently getting audio without any proxy what-so ever
there is a game on at 19:45 BST (14:45 EDT)
No Guarantees, though.
(DRM is a pain.)
(Sometimes it takes 24 hours or more for people to reply, we are all volunteering our time here.)
Thanks for the links. It's
Thanks for the links. It's Tuesday 8:19 PM London time right now, and you are right... I cannot listen to the Five Live programme with the UK proxy server. My browser is using Flash player, not Real Player, since I'm on Ubuntu and not Windows. However, the issue is the same. There is no error message, no message about not being in the UK. The screen looks like this:
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/5435/screenshotbbciplayercon.png
However, if I use NO PROXY at all... the audio plays fine through my Boston-area ISP.
Re. Five Live
When you say you can hear the audio through a Boston ISP, I'm assuming you mean unrestricted programming or the message telling you you're not in the UK, US ISP's will not access the content I'm refering to.
As for your screenshot, yes, that's what I get.
I'm assuming this has been resolved in as much as you can't get Five Live with Foxy....is that correct?
As I've already said, I like your product, I like the price and I certainly appreciate your time on these forums but if I can't get Five Live I'll regretfully have to look at other options.
I've got it working. Here
I've got it working. Here are instructions for Windows. Let me know if you're on another OS:
1. Make the following changes to your registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
Make a new key or edit existing one "ProxyEnable" .... REG_DWORD .... set value to 1
Make a new key or edit existing one "ProxyServer" .... REG_SZ..... value should be xx.xx.xx.xx:yyyyy
where xx.xx.xx.xx is the ip address of your HTTP proxy, and yyyyy is the port number.
3. If your proxy requires authentication, iPlayer/AIR will prompt your for username/password.
3. Go to Five Alive and listen to the program.
To disable the proxy, change "ProxyEnable" in the registry to 0.
We will shortly have a tool to automate this registry nonsense for you. I'll have a better tutorial with screenshots available soon.
Let me know if you need help,
Eric
Thank You
Eric,
Firstly, many thanks for your time on this issue, the personal service you've provided is extremely useful and is greatly appreciated. You're certainly not wasting your time, this summer England are playing Australia in cricket and the Five Live feed is 'UK only' which means there will be literally thousands of people worldwide looking for a solution and hopefully when they Google 'access Five Live radio commentary from abroad' they will land here.
As for me, editing registry etc is completely beyond me so if you could be kind enough to post in this thread when the automated tool is available I'd be grateful. I've saved this page to my favs and will check back on a daily basis and as soon as it is available I'll be jumping aboard.
Again, many thanks for such a personal service and I look forward to the automated tool.
Regards
Five Live sports commentary lover, Los Angeles.
Hi Mike, You are very
Hi Mike,
You are very welcome. Here's the automated tool:
http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/proxyservice/iplayer-and-hulu.html
The only thing I ask in return is that you share with me your experience... were you able to get Five Live to work after this?
Hope it works!
Eric
Hi Eric, I have tried the
Hi Eric,
I have tried the tutorial also fro iplayer but with no sucess. I have also tried your automated tool which just opens as a notepad file on my computer (Vista). Am I meant to paste the file somewhere?
Thanks for your efforts.
PS...I guess the match is over now but hopefully catch next weeks game :)
Just to let you know I found
Just to let you know I found solution.
Vista saved the file with extension wsf.txt
I opened file in notepad and Save As> All Files removing the .txt extension. Works perfect now.
Thanks D
Glad you were able to fix
Glad you were able to fix it, and thanks for the info. I'll add a note to the page about it.
Still struggling with this
I used the 'save link as' in VISTA, the file is saved with a .wsf extension but VISTA tells me it's a text file and when I double-click it opens in notepad.
Any ideas please?
Once it's open in notepad,
Once it's open in notepad, go to File->Save As and type "foxyproxy.wsf" including the quotes. It will now save a new file without the .txt extension.
THE ASHES
I have received word that all Ashes Cricket will have live commentaries for all matches globally and without any rights restrictions as;
"Full details of the sports extra schedule for the week ahead are available on the following link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/5livesportsextra/schedule/
The link will always indicate whether a broadcast is available online in the UK only, or worldwide.
Thanks for getting in touch.
Regards.
Jennifer McAllister
Senior Producer, 5 live sports extra
see below
reply in wrong place!
Eric
Eric,
Thank you so much! I got it working and it's perfect, exactly what I wanted.
The script download was easy but you do need to close the browser and reopen, or at least I did. Without closing and reopening the browser it didn't work for me.
Just to be clear to anyone that might be reading this, this service will access every sports commentary BBC Radio Five Live and Five Live Sports Extra provide which, to say the very least is vast.
Also, as you may have already seen during the course of this thread, the customer service provided with this product is absolutely second to none and is a simple solution to any British sports fan living overseas.
Thanks Eric, I appreciate your time.
Help
Hello,
I'm trying to access iplayer. I've tried some UK proxy servers and while I no longer get the message about availability being limited to the UK, I am now getting the message the 'video is unavailable at this time'. I suspect I am doing something wrong here although I am clueless as to how to fix this. I am wondering if any of the experts might have a suggestion or two. Thanks for your time.
Hi, The program was
Hi,
The program was recorded. Strangely, when trying the same proxy 8 hours later it worked fine. It is quite puzzling given I had tried 10 or so "fresh" proxies which would load other webpages (yahoo, etc.).
You wouldn't have these
You wouldn't have these problems if you subscribed to our proxy service (shameless plug :))
Hi, I think I have seen this
Hi,
I think I have seen this when trying to watch live content. Can you tell me if the program you're trying to watch is live or recorded?
Thanks,
Eric
Some difficulty still with iPlayer
Hi
I have been using Foxy Proxy's paid proxy service, and it's working well with iPlayer's website , ITV and C4.
However, I cannot get the iPlayer desktop application to play ball. (I'm using Ubuntu 9.04). If I try to download a program (rather than playing it there and then from the website flash player), it tells me that it's not possible... until I set the proxy up in 'Network Proxy' in Settings > Prefs. Then, the program seems to download fine, so it appears that I'm successfully fooling both the website and the Adobe AIR app.
However, when I come to play the video, I see a message telling me that the content is temporarily unavailable. If I close and restart iPlayer desktop, then I see a message telling me that the content has expired and has been removed from my computer. Pah!
Interestingly, programs I have downloaded while at home in the UK still play fine when abroad, regardless of proxy settings. And ideas on how to work round this one?
Also, I cannot get the BBC 'Watch Live' service to work. I see "This content doesn't seem to be working. Please try later". (NB, NOT 'This content unavailable in your location'). I don't know if it's related to the above problem or not...
Error message from Flash:
Title: GenericKind:FMSConnectionError.FMS_CONNECTION_API
Description: CDN Failover, final connection failed
Code: 222222
Thanks for any input!
Charlie
Ubuntu hack
Also, I cannot get the BBC 'Watch Live' service to work. I see "This content doesn't seem to be working. Please try later". (NB, NOT 'This content unavailable in your location'). I don't know if it's related to the above problem or not...
Error message from Flash:
Title: GenericKind:FMSConnectionError.FMS_CONNECTION_API
Description: CDN Failover, final connection failed
Code: 222222
Thanks for any input!
Charlie
Dear Charlie,
to make BBC 'Watch Live' work you need to [removed] see this link:
http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/proxyservice/iplayer-and-hulu-old.html
Ubuntu...
Thanks!
Unfortunately, it didn't work. :( It's quite possible that it's down to the hit-and-miss internet connection at this hotel. I'll see if I can get the downloader thing working with this method, too, and report back.
Charlie
Sadly, its doesn't work for
Sadly, its doesn't work for the desktop app, either.
It's very strange how it seems to know where I've previously downloaded the programs from! It doesn't make a difference if I turn my wifi off, either.
I know the proxy is working, because without it, the download doesn't happen at all, and it asks me for my password.
I'd love to have this fixed!
Charlie
try windows
Sadly, its doesn't work for the desktop app, either.
I know the proxy is working, because without it, the download doesn't happen at all, and it asks me for my password.
Charlie, did you manage to get Live content working?
Indeed downloaded content is a tricky thing. For example it will work perfectly on Windows system. Is this an option for you? I mean can you try booting in windows and trying to use Windows BBC Desktop application there.
Hi again Yes, it works fine
Hi again
Yes, it works fine when I boot into Vista. That's infuriating!
Any clues as to what the difference might be? I really don't want to have to keep booting Windows for this...
Cheers
Charlie
Microsoft's DRM is the key
Any clues as to what the difference might be? I really don't want to have to keep booting Windows for this...
Charlie, I guess the problem is somehow connected with DRM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer#DRM
Yeah, you could well be
Yeah, you could well be right.
I thought that using Adobe AIR was intended to get round platform-specific DRM implementations, but there you go!
Interestingly, BBC watch live has started working. Maybe a fluke, I don't know.
Cheers
Charlie
I've gotten BBC iplayer
I've gotten BBC iplayer downloads to download and *play* on Ubuntu. See this tutorial:
http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/proxyservice/iplayer-and-hulu-old.html
Hi Eric That looks like
Hi Eric
That looks like instructions for windows, could you confirm?
Charlie
Nope. Ubuntu.
Nope. Ubuntu, except for step #2. If you're on Ubuntu, you should instead use System->Preferences->Network Proxy to set global proxy settings.
Oh dear...
Hi Eric
That seems to have been what I was doing- I must have missed something out or something. I can't investigate this further at the moment, as my proxy does not appear to be working at all from the hotel I've just arrived at.
I'll open another thread for that, though..
Cheers
Charlie
Hmmm.... I have managed to
Hmmm....
I have managed to get the server working intermittently. Now I'm seeing the same effect on my windows setup. Very odd.
By the way, apologies for mentioning my proxy IP earlier. Should have known better.
New ITV player pattern
Hey, i've just figured out how to get the ITV player working outside of the UK. The pattern i use is:
http://mercury.itv.com/PlaylistService.svc
with Wildcards and Whitelist enabled.
That's it, no need for asterisks or anything else, it just needs that one address to go through the UK proxy.
Hope that helps someone!