O T How to get BBC iplayer outside UK
JTM
of time out of UK. The BBC iplayer detects when I'm abroad
and only lets me log on to their World Service pages.
Is there any way of fooling them so that I can use the Watch
now, or Watch again features?
John
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> Well I pay my t.v. licence fee in UK but spend quite a bit
> of time out of UK. The BBC iplayer detects when I'm abroad
> and only lets me log on to their World Service pages.
>
> Is there any way of fooling them so that I can use the Watch
> now, or Watch again features?
>
Use a UK proxy http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t99470.html
also google more info.
http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-GB.htm
No guarantees
Jim Watt
wrote:
>Well I pay my t.v. licence fee in UK but spend quite a bit
>of time out of UK. The BBC iplayer detects when I'm abroad
>and only lets me log on to their World Service pages.
>
>Is there any way of fooling them so that I can use the Watch
>now, or Watch again features?
>
>John
Set up a VPN at home and connect to it from abroad and the
beeb will think you are in the UK. Its cheaper and more
reliable than paying someone for a proxy and free proxy
services are useless for streaming.
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David WE Roberts
"Jim Watt" <jim...@aol.no_way> wrote in message
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Won't this fall foul of the imbalance between download and upload speeds?
Most Broadband links will handle streaming from the server to the PC or
router in the home (download) but not may links will handle streaming from
the PC or router in the home to another PC elswhere in the world (upload).
Just tested my (nominally) 10 megabit Virgin cable link and I got 8.8
megabits per second download and 0.5 megabits per second upload.
So you might be able to download a file to play later (albeit slowly) but I
don't think you will get acceptable performace streaming over a VPN which
uses a UK domestic Broadband connection as an intermediate point.
HTH
Dave R
Jan Panteltje
Roberts" <nos...@talk21.com> wrote in <7r5l4c...@mid.individual.net>:
>Won't this fall foul of the imbalance between download and upload speeds?
>Most Broadband links will handle streaming from the server to the PC or
>router in the home (download) but not may links will handle streaming from
>the PC or router in the home to another PC elswhere in the world (upload).
>
>Just tested my (nominally) 10 megabit Virgin cable link and I got 8.8
>megabits per second download and 0.5 megabits per second upload.
>
>So you might be able to download a file to play later (albeit slowly) but I
>don't think you will get acceptable performace streaming over a VPN which
>uses a UK domestic Broadband connection as an intermediate point.
>
>HTH
>
>Dave R
You may have to re-encode to a lower bitrate and / or a use different codec.
See my experiment here:
http://panteltje.com/panteltje/dvd/index.html
Scroll down to where it says 'An idea..'.
I tried mpeg4, I am sure if the PC has enough power you can stream H264,
with even better performance.
And anyways, nothing wrong with time shifting it, even better,
then you can watch when you want, and FFWD too.
I use Linux, as MS software is total useless rip of crap.
I have never tried it with BBC iplayer, but there is a Linux program
that should be able to get it.
Jim Watt
<nos...@talk21.com> wrote:
>Won't this fall foul of the imbalance between download and upload speeds?
It depends, although you can get quite reasonable results
I watched my television in the UK using a slingplayer and
I have the cheapest internet which supports 500mbs uplink.