Hi

When I was in the UK I could watch BBC News 24 in VMC using the Web Media plug-in using the below IP TV URL:

Or the other option might be to play the flash stream in VMC does anyone know how to do that?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/2_5_4735/player.swf

I also have a question about using proxy servers, does anyone have any experience of using UK proxy servers for gaining access to UK only Internet Services such as the BBC provides whilst living abroad?

Can you point me to a good source of reliable UK proxy server addresses that you use and know work?

I my experience of using proxy servers the addresses often don't work or are unreliable and slow.

Thanks

I've just been looking at the BBC iPlayer website, i don't have the iPlayer software installed on my PC, however I am watching a Top Gear web stream from the URL below in Firefox using a UK Proxy address: 217.65.158.65 Port 8080

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ccfj0/

Does anyone know more about using iPlayer from abroad? And the MCE iPlayer plug-in ?

Cheers

cw-kid:

When I was in the UK I could watch BBC News 24 in VMC using the Web Media plug-in using the below IP TV URL:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/wm/video/news24_bb.asx

 

Since moving abroad it stopped working. I have configured a UK proxy server in my browser and I can watch the news channel via the BBC News website OK. This is in flash format.

 

However I really want to do it in Media Center. Can any one in the UK test the above URL to see if the news channel plays in WMP11 ?

 

It just loops round and shows the BBC News logo for me,

 

Thanks

I tried your URL from inside the UK, and it only shows the BBC News logo for me too.

HTH

Pixelz:

cw-kid:

When I was in the UK I could watch BBC News 24 in VMC using the Web Media plug-in using the below IP TV URL:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/wm/video/news24_bb.asx

 

Since moving abroad it stopped working. I have configured a UK proxy server in my browser and I can watch the news channel via the BBC News website OK. This is in flash format.

 

However I really want to do it in Media Center. Can any one in the UK test the above URL to see if the news channel plays in WMP11 ?

 

It just loops round and shows the BBC News logo for me,

 

Thanks

I tried your URL from inside the UK, and it only shows the BBC News logo for me too.

HTH

Thanks for trying that link its obviously a dead one now.