I'm so pleased that, many years ago, I backed the "Squeezebox Paradigm"
for my digitised media streaming. What a fantastic product and community
- notwithstanding the BBC's strenuous efforts to screw things up and
Logitech's "hands-off" approach!

Thanks to the generous help and expertise of this community, I've got my
WHS 2011 and RasPi 2 servers fully functioning with Triodes iPlayer
tweaked so as to provide all streams at better quality than ever (thanks
Bonze). On the Raspberry Pi system, with help from Parky, I compiled my
own avconv and and used his fix to kill multiple instances of avconv
which occurred after channel hopping. Thanks also to expectingtofly for
providing a newer ffmpeg - I couldn't get it to work on my system, but
that could be down to my ageing brain failing after too many hours spent
at all this. I've even learned a bit more about Linux today.

The BBC, in my opinion, comes out of this very badly. We should never
had had to jump through all these unnecessary hoops. They even blocked
my post containing a link from their blog to the page on this site with
the "secret urls" for many hours today and only relented when I made it
clear in another post what was going on. 

I feel real sorrow for the poor folks outside the "squeezebox community"
and those with limited technical skills who were persuaded by the Beeb
that digital streaming was the future and they've just been dropped in a
deep hole.

So, personally, a very successful day - I'm now going to leave the PC
and just listen to some music, and relax.

Many many thanks to all - you're doing a fantastic job.


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