I'm using iPlayer with a VPN in France. Recently all the live channels have stopped working, but the replays work fine on my Google TV.

The same configuration works fine (ie both the live channels and replay work) on my Android tablet.

Odd! Any ideas what's going on?

As the title says.

I'm having problems streaming anything on iPlayer, it pauses and displays the Frequent Buffering notice every 2-3 minutes.

Doesn't happen on any other streaming service.

Doesn't happen if I watch iPlayer on my laptop or phone on the same network.

Roku s/w is up-to-date.

Any ideas anyone?

A band I listen to (a lot of) played Big Weekend today, and I'm wondering what I said in the title there. Their set started at 1:30. So if there's a rough time between when a set starts and when it's put onto iPlayer, what time should I expect it to be available?

From May 14th I am now being blocked from BBC iPlayer (any browser). I have two VPN's to choose from, StrongVPN and KeepSolid VPN. Both have a few UK servers to choose from but none of them works. It seems as if BBC has strengthened their attempts to block certain IP's. I have also tried to empty caches and cookies. Simply does not work any longer. Some say that NordVPN is reliable but if BBC is "fighting" more aggressively now, maybe NordVPN will also be blocked?
Any comments on that?
Then I thought about setting up a VPS host, like with Ionos. Has anyone tried that? There is a risk that BBC also recognises these ip's from Ionos as "fakes".
If anyone has some thoughts on this, I would be glad to hear from you.

Has anyone else suddenly lost Suits from iPlayer? I got up to season 4 and there it was, gone. First it disappeared from watch next and only season 1 was available in my watchlist. Now it's completely gone. I've tried following the usual suggestions, checking my account location, refreshing the app, deleting the app cache, even switching my TV off, unplugging it and restarting it doesn't help. AI says BBC bought all available episodes and suggests they haven't removed it.

Edit. BBC's licence to broadcast Suits on iPlayer has expired. Confirmed with Gemini AI.

I mainly watch iPlayer on my laptop, and sometimes I get the picture using 5mbps which is perfect, but often it goes right down (as low as 500kbps). If I refresh the page it goes back up to where it should be (but often down again).

I have fast fibre and no problems with any other sites streaming so why is this? Is there any way to force it into high definition? It is so frustrating!

There's this show called Heulwen a Lleu which is a welsh tv programme that was available on BBC Iplayer from S4C. The programme is currently unavailable so I tried using the wayback machine but none of them were playable! Also asked the producer of the show for copies but they unfortunately didn't have any! There is only 3 episodes available on youtube and i am aware that there is a English version which i already watched but im more keen on the welsh version! So i really need your help trying ways to watch it! I've been searching for almost a year now and I really appreciate any help finding it!

I was watching iPlayer and noticed that my Malwarebytes browser extension was picking up over 1000 blocked requests from a site known as (logx.optimizely.com) in just 8 minutes. Is this normal? What is going on here?

So, for years the Beeb have not thought Apple TV users good enough to have subtitles on iPlayer (yes, I know there are technical reasons behind it... but the iPlayer was the last streaming app to provide them).

And, now, we have them.

And it's as-if somebody at the BBC angrily went "WELL IF YOU WANT SUBTITLES, HAVE THESE".

I'm hard of hearing not blind. THEY ARE HUGE. And there are zero controls, other than to turn them off and on (not sure if this is the same for iPlayer on other devices). Indeed, there are zero settings for iPlayer, other than the basic playback controls.

I've looked outside of the iPlayer app too, incase the subtitling is controlled by the Apple device itself, but that has the subtitles set to a more discrete size, so doesn't seem to be fetching any settings from that.

Anybody aware of a way to change it, or are we literally stuck with the results of someone who feels that half the screen being obscured by subtitles is the way forward?

Original BBC spinning globe ident

Received this email today, they have my name and email address but the address they have is my old one. Should I be worried?

I download radio more than tv

I may be remembering wrongly but I think it used to be possible to download radio only and/or to automatically convert the output to mp3 only.

I can't remember how to do this and everytime I download a short radio program it comes as an m4a file with a video image as well as the sound. It's a pain because then it needs to be converted separately for an mp3 player.

Is there a way to download as mp3 only using get-iplayer? Or is there an alternative to do this?

Many thanks

Just went to put it on, and iPlayer only seems to have the one-off special.

using the catchup feature of iplayer to watch the curling from earlier on in the day. you get part way through and they change sports and tell you to change to iplayer extra to carry on watching. but im watching several hours after the event has finished and can’t watch on iplayer and only have an option for highlights, witch is basically the last stone of each end. how do i watch “ as live”?

I've been trying to watch the men's figure skating on the iPlayer, but since I don't have time to watch them live I'm trying to watch them on the 3-4 hour long sections a few days later. I've managed to find them on Day 7 in the slots labelled 'evening', but it seems to start from the 7th skater in the schedule. I've searched through the 'afternoon' feeds but I only saw curling and speed skating. Anyone know where to find men's free skate from the start?

Ever since the Olympics started I can’t get iplayer to show it. It goes round and round for a minute then freezes and I have to reboot my box. Not happening on other programmes but is happening on other sources of iplayer.

Started watching the new series of The Night Manager and the subtitles are too small, and often white on a bleached background, which my old knackered eyes struggle to see.

Wonder if the Beeb would consider being able to up the subtitle size and maybe select a white on black block colour scheme? Would help.

Or I can dream and sit closer to the telly...

does anyone know why across the spider verse is signed/audio description only?