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Showing posts with label iplayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iplayer. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
ipdl.exe
ipdl.exe is the iplayer downloader that was developed by PoRu and was broken in December 2010 when the BBC made changes to the way that they encode their streamed Internet content.
Links:
- Download the last working version of ipdl.exe
- Systems and programming on the Technology Muse
- get_iplayer pages on this blog
- RTMP - Real Time Message Protocol
- The Po-Ru website that describes the demise of ipdl.exe
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The Minimal torrc file
This post will describe what you need to place in the Vidalia Tor configuration file, torrc, so that you can force Tor to make its final exit and access to the Internet at a desired location.
Doing this you can make your web access to appear to be at that location as opposed to a random location as selected by the default installation of Tor. In this way you can access some of the material that is restricted by GeoIP limitations.
An example of the contents of a minimal torrc file can be found on my post for getting Tor to use an ExitNode in a specific country.
Links:
Doing this you can make your web access to appear to be at that location as opposed to a random location as selected by the default installation of Tor. In this way you can access some of the material that is restricted by GeoIP limitations.
An example of the contents of a minimal torrc file can be found on my post for getting Tor to use an ExitNode in a specific country.
Links:
- All pages relating to Tor on The Technology Muse
- How to determine and configure Exit Nodes
- Getting Tor to exit in a specific country
Monday, June 7, 2010
Adobe air drm
Post from April 2009 removed as it was no longer relevant.
Please see www.tempusfugit.ca for a full discussion on Adobe Air and DRM in general.
Please see www.tempusfugit.ca for a full discussion on Adobe Air and DRM in general.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Tor iPlayer Access
Update: April 2012 - the text below is old and while Tor is too slow to access iPlayer, but it probably still could be used.
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My old version of Tor seems to have stopped working for iPlayer Access.
As I am not using Tor to access the BBC programming as the VPN works really well for me it seems pointless to spend the time to debug the new installation.
The latest version (Aug 2009) is 0.2.1.19-0.1.15 (my earlier versions are 0.1 something)
The install downloads a new torrc file - can't be bothered to reconfigure - not sure if StrictExitNodes command still works.
As the Tor website says:
"......... with Tor, as do people wanting to post socially sensitive information in chat rooms, like rape or abuse survivors and those with illnesses. The Tor network also provides protection for people looking for another layer of privacy from the millions of websites and ISPs bent on collecting private information and tracking their moves online."
This is not what I am trying to do, watching BBC outside the UK does not qualify. Nor is the use of Tor for downloading from P2P sites!
Links:
Please note that the first comment on this post was made in response to a visitor posting a link to their solution to me not being able to access the BBC using Tor. I removed the link as I saw it as self-promotion.
I have been using Tor successfully for a number of years for many purposes including access of iPlayer programming.
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My old version of Tor seems to have stopped working for iPlayer Access.
As I am not using Tor to access the BBC programming as the VPN works really well for me it seems pointless to spend the time to debug the new installation.
The latest version (Aug 2009) is 0.2.1.19-0.1.15 (my earlier versions are 0.1 something)
The install downloads a new torrc file - can't be bothered to reconfigure - not sure if StrictExitNodes command still works.
As the Tor website says:
"......... with Tor, as do people wanting to post socially sensitive information in chat rooms, like rape or abuse survivors and those with illnesses. The Tor network also provides protection for people looking for another layer of privacy from the millions of websites and ISPs bent on collecting private information and tracking their moves online."
This is not what I am trying to do, watching BBC outside the UK does not qualify. Nor is the use of Tor for downloading from P2P sites!
Links:
- Pages relating to Vidalia Tor on this blog
- What to place in the torrc file to allow access to the BBC iPlayer.
- How to get Tor to "exit" in a specific country.
Please note that the first comment on this post was made in response to a visitor posting a link to their solution to me not being able to access the BBC using Tor. I removed the link as I saw it as self-promotion.
I have been using Tor successfully for a number of years for many purposes including access of iPlayer programming.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Rogers Throttling breaks VPN connection
I was experiencing that my connection to a UK VPN was disconnecting when I was running BitTorrent at the same time (on another computer to the VPN'd machine)
A VPN should not be used for torrrenting unless agreed to by the VPN provider
When I perform a SpeedTest (using DSLReports) the upload speed is often flagged with a message that there was upload compression detected from my ISP and that the upload figures may be inaccurate.
The theory about the VPN dropping is that the "handshake" between my computer and the VPN server cannot be maintained due to the upload compression. The download speed is still adequate for streaming of BBC iPlayer.
Plese note that this post was made May 2009 - now in April 2012 Rogers do not seem to have any of the problems I was seeing then.
Some search strings finding this page:
rogers "upload compression" vpn
Links related to file sharing:
A VPN should not be used for torrrenting unless agreed to by the VPN provider
When I perform a SpeedTest (using DSLReports) the upload speed is often flagged with a message that there was upload compression detected from my ISP and that the upload figures may be inaccurate.
The theory about the VPN dropping is that the "handshake" between my computer and the VPN server cannot be maintained due to the upload compression. The download speed is still adequate for streaming of BBC iPlayer.
Plese note that this post was made May 2009 - now in April 2012 Rogers do not seem to have any of the problems I was seeing then.
Some search strings finding this page:
| "vpn connection" rogers dropping |
Links related to file sharing:
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Using Tor for BBC iPlayer Access outside the UK
A complete description on how to do this is to be found on my website. www.tempusfugit.ca
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Download vs. Streaming
If you are downloading iPlayer programs (as opposed to "streaming" them) - turn off your proxy (or VPN) connection after the download has started. [or toggle your Internet connection to - "Direct Connection"]
This way the peer-to-peer nature of the Kontiki download software will not know where you are getting the authorization from. When you download the program is more than likely NOT coming from the BBC server (hence it is not blocked outside the UK) - it is coming from other computers on the Kontiki network that have downloaded the material.
See the message in the Download manager that tells you the speed and the number of sources to see what I mean.
If you do this you will minimise the chances of the BBC working out where the requests for its programming is coming from as well an lightening the load of the proxy or VPN server. In fact it is probably a good idea to download ALL the programming that you want to watch in this way.
If you are outside the UK the connection for the download is likely to be slow as you are connecting to other computers in the UK (or at least slower that if you were located in the UK). It is also likely that the speed of the download is pretty much the same as it would be if you have the connection via a proxy or a VPN - but it could be faster!
This way the peer-to-peer nature of the Kontiki download software will not know where you are getting the authorization from. When you download the program is more than likely NOT coming from the BBC server (hence it is not blocked outside the UK) - it is coming from other computers on the Kontiki network that have downloaded the material.
See the message in the Download manager that tells you the speed and the number of sources to see what I mean.
If you do this you will minimise the chances of the BBC working out where the requests for its programming is coming from as well an lightening the load of the proxy or VPN server. In fact it is probably a good idea to download ALL the programming that you want to watch in this way.
If you are outside the UK the connection for the download is likely to be slow as you are connecting to other computers in the UK (or at least slower that if you were located in the UK). It is also likely that the speed of the download is pretty much the same as it would be if you have the connection via a proxy or a VPN - but it could be faster!
Monday, January 19, 2009
iPlayer Torrent
The post was made as I saw a comparison of the BBC iPlayer as a "Torrent"
It is (partially) and it is not.
The BBC iPlayer has two distinct modes of operation. One is simple streaming and the other is similar to a "Torrent" - the Download Manager.
The Download Manager - does just that, download programs from iPlayer to your PC - it does this using a similar manner to a Torrent website. It is similar due to the fact that the program material once downloaded to your PC is available to others connected to the iPlayer Download Manager (Kontiki) it is then available to other iPlayer Download Manager users to download from your computer. In other words the Download Manager is a "pear-to-pear" system similar to a "Torrent" in that it uploads material from your computer to the Internet so that others can download it.
UNLIKE a "Torrent" there is no upload/download requirements for iPlayer. If you choose not to install the Download Manager to your PC, then there is NO similarity to a "Torrent"
If you elect not to download the Download Manager and install it you can still use the BBC iPlayer software (on the BBC iPlayer website - without having to download ANY software) to stream video TV programming from the BBC.
However, iPlayer programming is ONLY available within the UK - unless you take other measures.
Links to other posts on this blog related to iPlayer:
It is (partially) and it is not.
The BBC iPlayer has two distinct modes of operation. One is simple streaming and the other is similar to a "Torrent" - the Download Manager.
The Download Manager - does just that, download programs from iPlayer to your PC - it does this using a similar manner to a Torrent website. It is similar due to the fact that the program material once downloaded to your PC is available to others connected to the iPlayer Download Manager (Kontiki) it is then available to other iPlayer Download Manager users to download from your computer. In other words the Download Manager is a "pear-to-pear" system similar to a "Torrent" in that it uploads material from your computer to the Internet so that others can download it.
UNLIKE a "Torrent" there is no upload/download requirements for iPlayer. If you choose not to install the Download Manager to your PC, then there is NO similarity to a "Torrent"
If you elect not to download the Download Manager and install it you can still use the BBC iPlayer software (on the BBC iPlayer website - without having to download ANY software) to stream video TV programming from the BBC.
However, iPlayer programming is ONLY available within the UK - unless you take other measures.
Links to other posts on this blog related to iPlayer:
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