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BBC iplayer has a huge java function to detect your location. I'm in Ireland, and BBC has an old grudge because we pinched BBC tv signal only intended for the UK and North of Ireland. So they ban us from iplayer if you have an Irish IP. So do ITV, for the same reason. For many other countries it's the same.
So you goto iPlayer, select a video, press play - what happens?
If you go to Tools>Addons>Plugins and make sure Flash (if it's present) is set to "Never Activate", restart the browser, then repeat the above - does anything change?
Last edited by boughtonp; 01-15-2020 at 11:42 AM.
Reason: (added restart)
So you goto iPlayer, select a video, press play - what happens?
I get an error message 'This content doesnt seem to be working'
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If you go to Tools>Addons>Plugins and make sure Flash (if it's present) is set to "Never Activate", restart the browser, then repeat the above - does anything change?
I get an error message 'This content doesnt seem to be working'
That's almost certainly not the error message you get - the BBC will not omit the apostrophe in "doesn't" - always copy and paste exact messages when asking for help. (Some might consider this pedantry. It's not. Different search results are given when the apostrophe is included.)
Anyway, that error can unfortunately mean a variety of things:
* The BBC thinks you're outside the UK. (It has three different errors which may be given in that situation.)
* The BBC thinks your IP address belongs to a VPN (which are blocked because they're used to bypass the above UK-only restriction).
* Perhaps there's been a code update and you need to manually clear your caches (and possibly cookies) to avoid conflicts between old/new code.
* You're using a browser extension which blocks third-party scripts (e.g. uMatrix/NoScript) - if so you'll need to whitelist certain domains for iPlayer to work.
* There may be an issue on some of the iPlayer servers (this would usually cause the error intermittently not every time).
* Something else.
Press F12 and check the browser console and network tools for error messages or failed resource loading.
If you've got other devices on the same network, try accessing iPlayer with them to see if they work, or if there's another network you can try - if the same device works elsewhere it could be an IP issue, etc.
Other than that, you could give iPlayer Live Chat a try. (I don't know if they're any good or not.)
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In the UK, people pay a television licence fee which is used to fund the BBC (You pay even if you only watch DVDs or satellite content from somewhere else in the world other than the BBC.) Recently, to use the iPlayer you had to register using an Email address and password at no cost in the UK. I think this was so they can allow access from the rest of the world providing they subscribe. The issue being, it wouldn't be fair if the Brits have to pay a licence and the R.O.W. saw stuff for free, hence the:
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ERROR: bbc.co.uk returned error: geolocation
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Play Bonny!
Last edited by Soadyheid; 01-16-2020 at 09:50 AM.
Reason: spellnig!
Fair enough. BBC is a good service. I never saw a reasonable way of getting some content from it or Channel 4. If they offered a Netflix-type paying service, I'd consider it.
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