BBC Radio iPlayer

Cobbydaler · 03-05-2008, 22:37

I can get TV iPlayer content under Linux, works fine. However the radio iPlayer refuses to play anything.

e.g. Mary Anne Hobbs & select 'Listen to the show'. Hit the play button & nothing happens...

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.13 with all the Linux plugins. Can anybody listen to any radio iPlayer content under Linux?

---------- Post added at 22:37 ---------- Previous post was at 20:42 ----------

Working now, maybe it takes a while for the stream to become available?

mimibytes · 03-05-2008, 22:39

I'm using both Firefox & SeaMonkey in Ubuntu 8.04 (Gnome) & can get both radio and TV in BBCi.in both browsers but I had to ditch the Beta version of firefox that got downloaded and revert to last stable versio 2.0.0.14

Cobbydaler · 03-05-2008, 22:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by mimibytes

I'm using both Firefox & SeaMonkey in Ubuntu 8.04 (Gnome) & can get both radio and TV in BBCi.in both browsers but I had to ditch the Beta version of firefox that got downloaded and revert to last stable versio 2.0.0.14

Maybe coincidence, but since my first post I upgraded to 2.0.0.14

Oh,

to the forums by the way...

ronald146m · 13-05-2008, 19:46

Hi
I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and Firefox with plugins same as you (probably).
It takes over 1 minute for the sound to feed through, but it seems like much longer.
You can tell that it's on the way and the cache is filling by looking at Ubuntu's System Monitor (Network History). When you click on the link the 'Received' trace rises to around 8KB/s.

These days to listen to or download the BBC radio programmes I use Beebotron website.
To listen to a show 'right click and copy' the Beebotron link then from command line use:-

Code:

mplayer <link>

So for that Mary Anne Hobbs show the command is:-

Code:

mplayer rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/hobbs.ra

This is Beebotron:-http://beebotron.timeforabrew.com/

If you prefer, you can use Real Player instead (I don't), like this:-

Code:

realplay rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/hobbs.ra

Cobbydaler · 13-05-2008, 19:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronald146m

Hi
I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and Firefox with plugins same as you (probably).
It takes over 1 minute for the sound to feed through, but it seems like much longer.
You can tell that it's on the way and the cache is filling by looking at Ubuntu's System Monitor (Network History). When you click on the link the 'Received' trace rises to around 8KB/s.

These days to listen to or download the BBC radio programmes I use Beebotron website.
To listen to a show 'right click and copy' the Beebotron link then from command line use:-

Code:

mplayer <link>

So for that Mary Anne Hobbs show the command is:-

Code:

mplayer rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/hobbs.ra

This is Beebotron:-http://beebotron.timeforabrew.com/

If you prefer, you can use Real Player instead (I don't), like this:-

Code:

realplay rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/hobbs.ra

Nice tip! Much quicker...

ronald146m · 13-05-2008, 20:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Nice tip! Much quicker...

You're welcome.
To download that show very very quickly you can use this command:-

Code:

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile hobbs.ra -bandwidth 999999999999 rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/hobbs.ra -vc null -vo null -ao null