come anticipate the BBC's iPlayer with me

i might just be a weirdo but i have a ps3 and never watch iplayer on my telly. always on the computer.

heh yes i think that is a bit weird!

Sunday Morning Live is the weirdest show on TV:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013yypb/Sunday_Morning_Live_Series_2_Episode_9/

"John Bird, Andrew Stone, Jon Gaunt and Julie Bindel debate: Should we get rid of the human rights act? Should women stay at home and look after the kids?"

What's not to like?

This is great

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/playlister

The new BBC Playlister music player - rumours abound

haha sorry- I keep doing that!

iplayer (radio version) seems to have moved to using radioplayer thing.

looks superficially similar but

a) doesn't remember volume settings and defaults to LOUDEST whereas i normally listen on 2/10
(except radio 3 which isn't run through the optimod so is much quieter than the others)

b) doesn't remember position in show so i have to write it down if i'm splitting listening between days

c) (minor) no choice of hi / lo quality stream - sometimes when the live stream died you could switch quality and it'd come back.

bbc has apparently cracked down on vpn / dns shenanigans for ppl outside the uk watching iplayer. anyone know of something that works?

tryna watch that bake off too huh

I use Private Internet Access, iPlayer seems to work if I choose a UK-based server.

I believe VPNs are harder to block than the DNS changing sites.

thanks milo i'll take a look

i'm using unlocator and chose uk-2

works like a charm

odd, unlocator is what recently stopped working for me.

My Private Network working for me

trying to watch the winter olympics on iPlayer is immensely frustrating. How could they have cocked this up so badly? Why not make little groups of videos for each sport? Instead we've got these massive 3.5 hour chunks of coverage to scrub through, the descriptions will reference a few sports covered, but aren't exhaustive, and the titles of the chunks all begin with "Winter Olympics 2018 - Day 8 - ..." so on a phone you can't tell the difference between any of them because the title gets truncated. From what I understand it's all been handled by BBC Sport which is an online-first proposition, so I'm confused how they could have made such a hash of this.

Agreed, you have to sift through a lot of curling to get to something with watching. It’s worse on AppleTV because scrubbing through shows is so painful.

Olympics aside the search function is atrocious, it can’t find words within titles most of the time.

Huh search works p well for me - maybe the Apple TV build is different somehow

They do have these 2-3 minute highlight clips of big moments but I want to see the whole event. And just that event, without other stuff sandwiched around it that I have to fight through. It's bizarre that you can't just dial up "Women's Super-G Final".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/accountability/consultations/bbc-iplayer-public-interest

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and answer these questions:

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Question 2: What do you think about the benefit to consumers who will use the
service, as well as wider potential social and cultural impacts?

Question 3: What impact (positive or negative) do you think our proposals on
enhanced availability might have on fair and effective competition?

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ha whoops. well, the email link is in the above URL