random-robbie/BBC.m3u

I am living outside the UK and used a smart-dns-proxy-service for a couple of years. Worked great so far. Now the BBC has found a way to block this. I tried smartdnsproxy.com and unlocator.com. Both offically support the BBCiPlayer, but it does not work at all. VPN does work, but is not an option for me, because I have many devices in my network. Any suggestions for a reliable smartdns service for the BBC. Sorry for the offtopic post.

Oh, that's odd. I use smartdnsproxy.com and all BBC streams work fine for me. Have you double checked your settings and reactivated your ip on their website?

Yes, and I am in contact with their support-team for a couple of days now, No solution at all. Tried a couple of different servers. Works for a few minutes and then it is blocked again. Now I tried unlocator but it is a mess as well.. I am really disappointed and do not knwo what to do now... worked well for so many years... Any ideas?

Yes, and I am in contact with their support-team for a couple of days now, No solution at all. Tried a couple of different servers. Works for a few minutes and then it is blocked again. Now I tried unlocator but it is a mess as well.. I am really disappointed and do not knwo what to do now... worked well for so many years... Any ideas?

Sorry, I'm not sure what else to suggest. In my experience, their support team has been very helpful and they've fixed any issues I've had with broadcaster streams/apps from other countries not working. So hopefully they can find a solution to this.

I am in the UK but have Smart DNS enabled by default to allow streams from a few other countries to work, so that may be why it still works fine for me. Not sure.

I use dns4me, it's always worked for me.

With Unlocator all of the mpd-Streams are working on my Desktop PC. The m3u8 Streams are blocked, not all but most of them. Problem is that my settopbox (VU+ Solo4k) can not play the mpd-streams... Any Suggestion. I will give dns4me also a try anyway.

I use dns4me, it's always worked for me.
Service is great. Works fine for me right now. Thank you.

Seeing as this seems to have turned into a little bit of a thread on the subject and everyone's so active, thought I'd drop in to primarily just say thanks a lot @jakeysbin for those m3u8 URLs, they're the only ones that work on my basic Cable/Sat STB (Cryptobox 752HD with basic IPTV support in the firmware), it doesn't support MPD. The mention of the Media Availability Tool was also a revelation, and it allowed me to fish out the correct URLs for various other channels I was wanting as well as try to debug some issues.

Really strange behavior with the "IPTV" streams though, every 30-60s an HLS segment is replaced by one from another channel! For example I'm watching BBC One just now and I will get about 5 seconds of BBC News channel instantly cutting in every so often. I'm not sure if the issue lies in the crappy STB firmware or packets getting mangled over the connection I'm tunneling through. The "PC" streams instead just drop to a lower resolution for a few seconds or occasionally skip frames.

Edit: Actually, perhaps it's rather segments from the very start of the available stream. I guess the IPTV streams have a significant buffer for timeshifiting? I have no clue about what's offered these days on iplayer on devices.

No issues on a PC with VLC. Tried playing with the MTU/MSS on the OPNsense device that's sitting between the STB and the local gateway with no luck. Maybe I should experiment with so-called "smart" DNS rather than full IP tunneling.

Edit 2: Threw away the tunnel and ran HLS Proxy on the remote box and the problem went away.

Hi all could anyone help with a link for ITV1 please? The previous link is down thank you so much to you all

Hi all could anyone help with a link for ITV1 please? The previous link is down thank you so much to you all

Hi all could anyone help with a link for ITV1 please? The previous link is down thank you so much to you all

country:uk network:itv streams:>0

Does the BBC not stream sets live from trnsmt? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p04r9yt8/trnsmt has highlights as before but I couldnt find any activity on streams other than tennis.

Special coverage in Paris ahead of Friday's Olympics opening ceremony

720p

https://ve-cmaf-pushb-uk.live.cf.md.bbci.co.uk/x=4/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:uk_bbc_stream_051/pc_hd_abr_v2.mpd

Can anyone make this ITV1 m3u8 stream make more sense or even simplify it?
https://shouurvki7jtfax.ngolpdkyoctjcddxshli469r.org/sunshine/UFCDunpGcLyP87OxINCfb6F9hqedwicGJI124-xSwNrvxElid_aX-4-p6dZ2yr0Q4UIxvvCwlW1JwyLCb3-RRVtReynlA6ewsjKYBcCA4_dOgY0x-YvWwntdEKegp4lhnsqbIUAwy-WoN_iEJgOx3BbH3RDCnFVqIpzV-A0l4TY/hls/index.m3u8

Can anyone make this ITV1 m3u8 stream make more sense or even simplify it?

You like your URL's fully human-readable, don't you?

Alright. I will decipher it a bit for you.

The part starting with UF and ending with TY is base64-encoded data, using the URL-safe alphabet. This alphabet differs from standard base64 by replacing the character + with -, and the character / with _.

Decoding that string gives you 128 bytes of binary data. What is that data, we don't know. It could be containing some encoded/serialized information, or it could be just a random binary key into a table, or whatever.

Luckily, the link works just as well, even if we don't know what that binary data is.

% echo 'UFCDunpGcLyP87OxINCfb6F9hqedwicGJI124-xSwNrvxElid_aX-4-p6dZ2yr0Q4UIxvvCwlW1JwyLCb3-RRVtReynlA6ewsjKYBcCA4_dOgY0x-YvWwntdEKegp4lhnsqbIUAwy-WoN_iEJgOx3BbH3RDCnFVqIpzV-A0l4TY' | \
  sed 's|-|+|g;s|_|/|g' | \
  base64 -d | \
  hexdump -C
00000000  50 50 83 ba 7a 46 70 bc  8f f3 b3 b1 20 d0 9f 6f  |PP..zFp..... ..o|
00000010  a1 7d 86 a7 9d c2 27 06  24 8d 76 e3 ec 52 c0 da  |.}....'.$.v..R..|
00000020  ef c4 49 62 77 f6 97 fb  8f a9 e9 d6 76 ca bd 10  |..Ibw.......v...|
00000030  e1 42 31 be f0 b0 95 6d  49 c3 22 c2 6f 7f 91 45  |.B1....mI.".o..E|
00000040  5b 51 7b 29 e5 03 a7 b0  b2 32 98 05 c0 80 e3 f7  |[Q{).....2......|
00000050  4e 81 8d 31 f9 8b d6 c2  7b 5d 10 a7 a0 a7 89 61  |N..1....{].....a|
00000060  9e ca 9b 21 40 30 cb e5  a8 37 f8 84 26 03 b1 dc  |...!@0...7..&...|
00000070  16 c7 dd 10 c2 9c 55 6a  22 9c d5 f8 0d 25 e1 36  |......Uj"....%.6|
00000080

So a "standard" .m3u8 that is not time dependant is out of the question :)

Paris 2024 Opening UHD
https://ve-uhd-push-uk-live.akamaized.net/x=3/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:uhd_stream_02/iptv_uhd_v1.mpd

Any of you sniffed the links for Red Button BBC for the Olympics? Thanx to whomsoever

It's just the regular Red Button stream isn't it? They're only allowed to show one additional stream, along with the main channel coverage, due to the rights deal with Eurosport.

Paris 2024 Opening UHD https://ve-uhd-push-uk-live.akamaized.net/x=3/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:uhd_stream_02/iptv_uhd_v1.mpd

404 not found, dead.

Paris 2024 Opening UHD https://ve-uhd-push-uk-live.akamaized.net/x=3/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:uhd_stream_02/iptv_uhd_v1.mpd

404 not found, dead.

Yeah, it was just for the opening ceremony. The BBC aren't providing any UHD streams for the actual Olympic action. That stream may become active for the closing ceremony.

It's just the regular Red Button stream isn't it? They're only allowed to show one additional stream, along with the main channel coverage, due to the rights deal with Eurosport.

thanx for clarifications Smark. Talk about the Beeb selling the family silver 🙂🙃😉 so all we have got in effect is BBC1 and the Red Button 1
Slim pickings ....

https://vs-cmaf-push-uk.live.cf.md.bbci.co.uk/x=4/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:bbc_one_london/pc_hd_abr_v2.mpd
https://ve-cmaf-push-uk-live.akamaized.net/x=4/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:uk_sport_stream_01/pc_hd_abr_v2.mpd

It's just the regular Red Button stream isn't it? They're only allowed to show one additional stream, along with the main channel coverage, due to the rights deal with Eurosport.

thanx for clarifications Smark. Talk about the Beeb selling the family silver 🙂🙃😉 so all we have got in effect is BBC1 and the Red Button 1 Slim pickings ....

https://vs-cmaf-push-uk.live.cf.md.bbci.co.uk/x=4/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:bbc_one_london/pc_hd_abr_v2.mpd
https://ve-cmaf-push-uk-live.akamaized.net/x=4/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:uk_sport_stream_01/pc_hd_abr_v2.mpd

Nothing they could do about it, unfortunately. The IOC did a multi year Europe-wide deal with Warner Brothers Discovery. So the BBC are showing the maximum they're allowed.

Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony UHD HDR
https://ve-uhd-push-uk-live.akamaized.net/x=3/i=urn:bbc:pips:service:uhd_stream_02/iptv_uhd_v1.mpd

seeking ITV4 url to follow Vuelta Tour Of Spain any of you know of a current URL which works? thanx guys

seeking ITV4 url to follow Vuelta Tour Of Spain any of you know of a current URL which works? thanx guys

It's on SBS in Australia, but you need a vpn.
https://i.mjh.nz/sbs.m3u8 it's from Matt, https://www.matthuisman.nz/, https://i.mjh.nz/. If you log in you can watch the replays, https://www.sbs.com.au/sport/topic/cycling.

Anyone have working STV HD link? Previous has died error 400. Ty.

only 720p: https://csm-e-stv-eb.tls1.yospace.com/csm/extlive/stv01,prd-ml-stv-edi-subs.m3u8