iPlayer under boxee (old plugin)

[chatterbox]

OK..Step by Step: (OS X)

Assuming you have already downloaded Boxee.

1) Visit http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-iplayer/ and download the plugin

2) Open the Boxee Package contents and browse to:

Contents\Resources\boxee\plugins\video

Create a folder called iPlayer and copy the contents of the downloaded plugin to that directory

3) browse to ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/profiles/chatterbox/ and open in TextEdit sources.xml

4) Under the Video section add:

<source>
            <name>iPlayer</name>
            <path>plugin://video/iPlayer/</path>
            <private>false</private>
        </source>

5) Launch Boxee, go to Video, Internet Video, Select iPlayer

6) Select the Channel

7) Select the Program

8) Select info

9) Press Enter (there doesn't seem to be a button but it just magically plays)

Taaa Bloody Daaa

PS - Thanks to Clarkee for some pointers 50/50 me ol' mucker

[Strawp]

no success here recreating those steps on my Ubuntu install of Boxee but I think the script is not in a particularly reliable place right now. Not sure if there were any prerequisites I needed...

[pfrumpy]

Linux noob alert...

I got stuck at step 2 - how do I navigate to Contents\Resources\boxee\plugins\video?

And in step 3 - how do I browse to ~/Library/Application Support/BOXEE/UserData/profiles/chatterbox/ and open in TextEdit sources.xml?


cheers
Paul

[mccu7pj2]

Works for me on the Mac. You can also crib the existing BBC logo in that XML snippet, so it reads like this:

<source>
<name>iPlayer</name>
<path>plugin://video/iPlayer/</path>
<thumbnail>http://rss.boxee.tv/rssthumb/bbc.png</thumbnail>
<private>false</private>
</source>

Thanks very much for the info.

[Gamester17]

The latest Boxee Alpha release features HTTP proxy support so at least theoretically you could now use this plugin from anywhere in the world as long as you use a UK (United Kingdom) proxy.

It would probably be a violation of BBC iPlayer user agreement doing so but...

[tsella]

rtmp, the streaming protocol used in iPlayer, is not delivered over http in this case. http proxy will not help.

[Gamester17]

doh! I did not think of that

[iwoolf]

Originally Posted by tsella

rtmp, the streaming protocol used in iPlayer, is not delivered over http in this case. http proxy will not help.

I just got BBC iPlayer to work with a proxy in Firefox using the instructions here: http://www.darkedges.com/bbc/. He uses a Greasemonkey script with FoxyProxy. I found a UK proxy here: http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-GB.htm

It works, I can now watch BBC iPlayer in Australia. So the principle should work for boxee. I'll try it later this weekend if I can work out how to insert the proxy information.

Is there any chance of a Python-speaking person adapting this plugin for ABC iView?

[digiguru]

This works a treat. The google code page says it isn't working at the moment, but I think their wrong. Works perfectly for me. I notice you can also choose the streaming options under streaming. This is great because windows users got a better compressed video, rather than the website's inferior flash compression.

[Headspace]

I can't get this to work for the life of me. Just get a "Failed to retrieve data" message for both OSX and ATV versions. Am I missing something of have the BBC broken it?