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Iplayer now working!!!

Found that if you go on opera and go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer it works!!!
as quoted here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/where_to_get_iplayer/
you dont need flash it uses the video player app on Touch HD, says it works for Xperia users too and Omnia!!!
have fun, ohh you can do the following
CATCHUP
WATC LIVE TV
LISTEN TO LIVE RADIO

I don't know about anybody else.... but I already knew this! I've been using Iplayer on my Touch HD since Christmas (when I got my Touch HD).
The problem, still, is that you need wifi... you can't use your Data Connection!

I'm still having trouble. From the other threads I think a few people still do.
I've tried several times. No luck. It opens in the video player but then just hangs on "connecting".
Now that the blackstone is supported there shouldnt be any need to change the user agent... but still?

Noodled24 said:
I'm still having trouble. From the other threads I think a few people still do.
I've tried several times. No luck. It opens in the video player but then just hangs on "connecting".
Now that the blackstone is supported there shouldnt be any need to change the user agent... but still?
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Same thing happens with mine anyone out there got any ideas?

sorry i only just found this out have been watching ot through skyfire lol. i was impressed with both

My understanding is iPlayer works only on 3 and vodafone over their network at the moment. I've used it with 3 no problems.

^ True, but it should work over wifi no matter what network you use.
In my case and others, the Touch HD can't deal with Iplayer via wifi out the box.

Those of you having problems over wifi might find the problem is nothing to do with the BBC or the Touch, but your router/firewall. I have two wifi networks in my house - one is within my network behind the gateway/firewall PC and another is right at my broadband modem (in the DMZ).
Connecting directly through the broadband modem means I can watch the iPlayer no problem, but if I'm behind the gateway then the HD's streaming app can't connect. I haven't bothered to investigate which ports I need to open in the gateway to make it work within the network but I assume it must be possible.
Hope this helps suggest a pointer for investigation.

are you sure its the main site and not this one: www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer

10076757 said:
are you sure its the main site and not this one: www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer
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it doesn't matter if you type in bbc.co.uk/iplayer, it redirects you automatically to the mobile version.

I get: "Please switch to Wifi to play this programme.".
I'm from the Netherlands and use the Vodafone network, how can i resolve this problem?

i am on T-mobile uk, and i also get pls switch to wifi, thing is.... if you was near wifi, your probably at home, use the pc to watch iplayer lol. Guess theres always the usefulness for the toilet lol

I have the same problem where it hangs on connecting,
i've seen a video of it running but the media player the guys using isn't
the standard pvplayer that comes with the touch hd out of the box.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c86913wBoYA
anyone know what media player that is?

Zooby said:
I have the same problem where it hangs on connecting,
i've seen a video of it running but the media player the guys using isn't
the standard pvplayer that comes with the touch hd out of the box.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c86913wBoYA
anyone know what media player that is?
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thats the streaming media player that comes with the touch hd.

fowler002 said:
thats the streaming media player that comes with the touch hd.
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everyone keeps saying this but it's not on mine. is it somewhere on my system? i've looked through every executable and it's like my touch hd
didn't come with the standard software.

That media player is not the default one that opens when I try to use Iplayer either. Mine has less and smaller icons. They're circles too. Not Square.
If the problem is with the router/firewall, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?
The youtube player works perfectly over both wifi and 3g. I also have Gremote working fine... both of which require connections to the PC..?

Not working no more
I NEED HELP. i had bbc iplayer working for couple of months now. and suddenly when i want to watch something i get an error. i can go on the site, that loads up perfectley www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer yeah that loads up fine. but when i go down and click on drama or comedy, i get an error saying check server snd url. it worked b4 and its not working now. im obviously using it through wifi.
HELP PLEASE!

Touch Hd streaming BBC iPlayer

EDIT: Have discovered the problem is my bebox router, read post #10 for more details if you're having the same problem I did......
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Hi guys, i've been looking around for the past 2 days including searching through these forums for ages and I can't quite find the answer i'm looking for. A few threads have come close but don't really help because they're not
specifically about this problem.
I've got the Touch HD it came installed with pvplayer,
when I go to the BBC iPlayer mobile site the videos hang on the connecting screen.
I've seen a video of the htc Touch HD running Iplayer but the media player the browser links to isn't the one I have.
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=1902#comment-10175
That's the page I saw the video on.
I tried installing the Htc Streaming Media app, if i'm running that i get it
to buffer and I get audio but no video.
The toolbar also looks really small and it's garbled on the bottom right hand side of the screen. so i'm thinking I might have an old version or something.
So the question is.....
Does anyone know what player the guy in the video is using?
and if it's a different version of the Htc Streaming Media app
where can I get it.
Any help appreciated, oh and sorry if it's covered elsewhere, i've been going through these forums for ages trying to find it but all the answers seem to be relating to old hacks before the BBC started supporting the phone or people
going "runs great now" without saying what they're using to do it.
(originally posted in the general discussion by accident, no flaming please)
EDIT: I've been told by someone at wmpoweruser that it's the default player that comes with the phone, strangely I've never seen it, now i'm wondering
if there's a specific build from orange without the player. I don't want to do a hard reset to check just yet (i've spent the last week getting everything on there
that I need and I don't feel like starting from scratch)
if anyone knows of a .cab file with the "default" htc streaming app for the touch HD i'd really appreciate it. Thanks

Ive got mine from orange and it is included, and iplayer works.
I think it only works over wifi though, i could get it to work over 3g or when plugged into my PC.
Mike.

I got mine from orange too, but it hangs on the loading screen.

Mike1002 said:
Ive got mine from orange and it is included, and iplayer works.
I think it only works over wifi though, i could get it to work over 3g or when plugged into my PC.
Mike.
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what player is it using to stream?
mine automatically goes to pvplayer, I can't find the htc default software anywhere.
pvplayer just stops at connecting.

Having the same problem.
iPlayer launched PVPlayer and then it just hangs on "Connecting...."
Phone from Orange also.

im on orange and it seems to work fine, still in 'Beta' tho.

Catinthehat: Does yours load up in PVPlayer or a different video player?

Neddage said:
Having the same problem.
iPlayer launched PVPlayer and then it just hangs on "Connecting...."
Phone from Orange also.
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I get the same stuck on connecting when using m.youtube.com
(coreplayer can do it but I wanted to check the player was working)
are you using a bebox router? i've seen someone else on wmpoweruser had
the same problem, switched routers and it worked.
i'm on bebox too but don't have a spare router to check.... maybe thats
the problem.

I am using a bebox router which may be the issue.
I did manage to get audio using an old version of the HTC Streaming Media Player but no video and the menu's were all corrupt.
I'll try from different wifi

Neddage said:
I am using a bebox router which may be the issue.
I did manage to get audio using an old version of the HTC Streaming Media Player but no video and the menu's were all corrupt.
I'll try from different wifi
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ok cool let me know how you get on.
i don't want to go buying a router just to check
EDIT:
Discovered it's almost definately the router.
i've gone back to the standard pvplayer and I think it should work without tweaks with a different router.
to explain why i think that's the case i'll explain
i had to do a few things.....
while stuck on connecting using wifi I copied the stream file from the opera tempdownload folder
to my storage card
because pvplayer will delete a temp stream from iplayer after you stop it (confused me for a bit
because i couldn't figure out where iplayer sent em and the other streams from different sites hadn't deleted themselves)
I zipped the file in a temp folder then extracted
it again so i'd keep a copy.
I turned off wifi and turned on my data connection.
I then ran the stream file with pvplayer... it got past connecting!!
buffered and started to run.... ok it stopped every 2 seconds to rebuffer for about 10 seconds so it was unwatchable
because it's meant to be a wifi quality stream and i was running on 3g but it actually got past connecting!
so it must be my bebox router not letting me connect....
interesting side note that i discovered
you can probably run iplayer without using wifi if you grab the stream file at a wifi spot
then copy the file to a different place ... probably work ok on hsdpa connection
haven't had chance to check yet. :>

You can try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475641&highlight=iplayer
Awesome app - still in 0.4 and a bit buggy but works in WVGA!! Best picture possible.
To stream use with tcpmp http://rghost.ru/40265 or coreplayer. Just ensure in those apps in permissions you add .mov files as assosicated otherwsie it will just download them.
RipNard

thanks for the heads up just edited my last post to explain that it's almost definately my router, i've been keeping track of that iplayer app and posting back to craftyb the bugs for the touch hd
also edited my first post to explain that i've discovered the problem (probably usefull for someone, i wish more people would do the same )

ive worked out why it hangs....
its to do with ports and blocking them, at my girlfriends i connect to iplayer via wifi, (also with the pvplayer app on orange branded handset)
i need to find out which ports need to be open so i can add the app to the router, that or try get the silly router app to not be so strict!!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=484776
uses streamiing media for ppc. standard with stock touch hd.

Bebox & iplayer.
Zooby said:
thanks for the heads up just edited my last post to explain that it's almost definately my router, i've been keeping track of that iplayer app and posting back to craftyb the bugs for the touch hd
also edited my first post to explain that i've discovered the problem (probably usefull for someone, i wish more people would do the same )
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Hi Zooby, I can confirm that its definitely the bebox. I have the 700 series speedtouch. I disconnected it and used a friends netgear modem and could stream iplayer beautifully to my HD and Polaris. The solution apparently is to forward ports on the bebox for the hd and apply the chosen port settings to htc streaming player. I couldnt get it to work so i bought a netgear dg834gt. The dg834n works well too. If you figure out how to port forward the bebox for the Touch HD, please let us know.

Canaan said:
Hi Zooby, I can confirm that its definitely the bebox. I have the 700 series speedtouch. I disconnected it and used a friends netgear modem and could stream iplayer beautifully to my HD and Polaris. The solution apparently is to forward ports on the bebox for the hd and apply the chosen port settings to htc streaming player. I couldnt get it to work so i bought a netgear dg834gt. The dg834n works well too. If you figure out how to port forward the bebox for the Touch HD, please let us know.
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i've tried a few different port ranges already, i saw someone on another thread talking about a specific range working but it didn't work for me
(the guy tried 4105 - 4125)
i've searched through forums and iplayer tech support pages for the ports iplayer mobile uses, can't seem to find them.
google is not my ally on this one.
will login to Be forums at some point see if anyone there has had the same problem.
I hope I don't have to buy a new router, I only just finished messing around with it to open up the last ethernet port to use on xbox live (for some reason the last port was reserved for other uses as standard).

I think that last port is used by Be techies when you authorise them to remote access your Bebox if you need help with a fault etc. I did search the Be forums a while back but nothing useful. I bet it's something really simple though. The problem is getting information from someone who's got it working. Someone on Be in the Uk, using a Bebox, has a pda phone and accesses iplayer(from within the UK). A bit of a tall order, i think.

Canaan said:
I think that last port is used by Be techies when you authorise them to remote access your Bebox if you need help with a fault etc. I did search the Be forums a while back but nothing useful. I bet it's something really simple though. The problem is getting information from someone who's got it working. Someone on Be in the Uk, using a Bebox, has a pda phone and accesses iplayer(from within the UK). A bit of a tall order, i think.
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yeh i know but i had an extra non wifi device i needed to put on.....
i've checked bebox forums, nobody seems to have a clue.
pretty much everyone on there is buying a different router.
i've tried a few options with the router, i just can't seem to open it up.
(changed firmware 3 times, telnet to change nat, specific ports related to the iplayer download manager... trust me... loads of things.)
i'm not gonna go buying a new router just to watch iplayer while in my house since i can do that from my pc anyway, for anyone that desperate to watch it from home on a bebox router.... buy a new router.

A fix is here at post 195
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=436890&page=20
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3554208&postcount=195

myPlayer will stream the BBC iPlayer content over wifi or 3G. It is now also compatible with the ITV Player.
-Fry

[Q] DLNA only on WiFi Direct?

Hi,
Having recently got both a One X and a new Blu Ray player (Samsung BD E5500), I've been trying really hard to get DLNA sharing to work from the phone to the Blu Ray, with absolutely no success. They're both connected to the same router, the One X wirelessly, the Samsung wired. Third-party apps like Twonky work no problem, but I can't get the HTC sharing from the Gallery, etc., to work at all - I go to "Select Player", it clearly searches for a while, and then comes up with nothing. Conversely, where the Samsung normally lists all the media servers it can find on the network, there's never a hint that it can see the phone at all (unless, of course, I'm running the Twonky server).
I emailed HTC about this yesterday, and they responded by saying that Google had forced the ICS DLNA app to be restricted to WiFi-Direct connections only, that there was nothing I could do via a router connection, and giving me a handy link to where I could buy the MediaLink HD at great expense. I've been searching and I can't find any other reference to Google doing anything with regard to DLNA & WiFi-Direct. They also insisted that my GF's Incredible S, still being on GB, would work fine over my router's WiFi to talk to the Samsung player. Unsurprisingly (as I had in fact told them in the original email), the Incredible S displays exactly the same symptoms as my One X.
So, my question is, are HTC telling the truth about this? It seems that other people on here have managed to get some kind of DLNA sharing working, if I've read the threads right. Any tips? I could understand *adding* DLNA+WiFi-Direct support (now that that's part of the standard), but taking away the ability to talk to non-WiFi-Direct DLNA players? Doesn't make sense.
Anything else I can say that will add to this, please do just ask!
Hope someone can answer.
Thanks!

Have you turned on DLNA on your blu ray player (or is that automatically enabled)? Your One X has to push media to your blu ray player, not play it.

Automatically enabled. It seems that the Blu Ray player just regularly scans for media providers and shows them in a list on the main menu screen. Certainly, that's how it handles the minidlna server on my OpenWRT router, and how it displays the Twonky server on my One X (when it's running).

DLNA for Nokia WP7 (Beta)

Hi Guys,
Just to let you know in case some of you haven't realized it Nokia is Testing a DLNA App called 'PLAY TO' for Nokia WP7 Devices.
Its still in Beta testing and there are mixed reviews where some have got it to work straight away while others have had minor glitches.
Unfortunately for me it doesn't seem to locate any device at all. ..( PC , SONY Bravia TV or my SGS2)
I have an SGS2 which connects to my PC and TV via its 'ALL SHARE' so I guess its the PLAY TO app
I have a sim free Nokia Lumia 900 UK version
Would Appreciate if you would let me know if the app works for you guys and please post your
Lumia Model (UK or USA etc)
TV Model
PC modem etc
Thank You
BETA LABS NOKIA - download link

Thanks man. I hadn't seen this in the Beta Labs (mustve missed it). But, surely wanted to be able to use DLNA capabilities as it's the only thing I missed since moving from my Titan.

tfn said:
Hi Guys,
Just to let you know in case some of you haven't realized it Nokia is Testing a DLNA App called 'PLAY TO' for Nokia WP7 Devices.
Its still in Beta testing and there are mixed reviews where some have got it to work straight away while others have had minor glitches.
Unfortunately for me it doesn't seem to locate any device at all. ..( PC , SONY Bravia TV or my SGS2)
I have an SGS2 which connects to my PC and TV via its 'ALL SHARE' so I guess its the PLAY TO app
I have a sim free Nokia Lumia 900 UK version
Would Appreciate if you would let me know if the app works for you guys and please post your
Lumia Model (UK or USA etc)
TV Model
PC modem etc
Thank You
BETA LABS NOKIA - download link
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Works perfect with my Xbox... must be in Media Center. I have not tried with my Grace internet Radio, but it does show up. Have not tried with my Roku, but that might be interesting.
(Update) Forgot: Play to is only pics and video... no music... so it sees Grace but no play to: No Roku

Works fine direct to my sony blu-ray disk player (BDP-BX58). More polished than the HTC Media Connect I used before on my HD7...

awagner said:
Works perfect with my Xbox... must be in Media Center. I have not tried with my Grace internet Radio, but it does show up. Have not tried with my Roku, but that might be interesting.
(Update) Forgot: Play to is only pics and video... no music... so it sees Grace but no play to: No Roku
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It probably plays mp3 from your device. I haven't tried.
It plays podcasts and pictures to my Samsung TV over wifi. It also streams to xbox no problem.

tfn said:
Its still in Beta testing and there are mixed reviews where some have got it to work straight away while others have had minor glitches.
Unfortunately for me it doesn't seem to locate any device at all. ..( PC , SONY Bravia TV or my SGS2)
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It's glitchy for me. Pictures work fine but streaming video is an issue. I turned of the tv and rebooted the phone. After that it connected and played. The real annoyance is it has disconnected multiple times while I was watching a video.
DLNA is pretty cool but you are going to look like a total douche if it keeps disconnecting every 10 minutes. Glad this thing is in BETA. Hopefully they will get the kinks worked out.

HTC Connect doesn't see Smart TV

Hi, I have an HTC ONE M9 and a VIZIO M602i-B3. I'd like to mirror screen, or stream videos/pics from my phone to my TV but HTC Connect never sees my TV.
The YouTube app on my phone however, sees and connects to my TV easily.
Can someone point me in the right direction. I've tried a plethora of apps to try and accomplish what I want, but to no avail.
Thanks for any info you can provide.

damessiah13 said:
Hi, I have an HTC ONE M9 and a VIZIO M602i-B3. I'd like to mirror screen, or stream videos/pics from my phone to my TV but HTC Connect never sees my TV.
The YouTube app on my phone however, sees and connects to my TV easily.
Can someone point me in the right direction. I've tried a plethora of apps to try and accomplish what I want, but to no avail.
Thanks for any info you can provide.
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it doesnt even work with their own media link it's no surprise it won't work on a TV
I got one of those free with my M7 and it never worked on the M9, they totally abandoned it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-m9/help/htc-m9-connect-htc-media-link-hd-t3068914