Comments on: Hulu.com TV and Movie Subtitles on get_iplayer

By: Howard Chu

Howard Chu — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:44:45 +0000

The program stream data is now encrypted, and get_iplayer has not been updated with code to decrypt it.

By: Bob Danish

Bob Danish — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:30:52 +0000

Ok, I can currently watch Hulu on firefox from Canada with tsocks set up as per this website:
http://www.alternativedenial.org/?p=94

However, when I try to download content using get_iplayer (just after using ‘. tsocks -on’ in the command line), I get the following warnings:

WARNING: Failed to get programme stream data for XYZ from site

Phil has said above:
“rtmpdump cannot and will never be able to go through a standard web proxy because it uses rtmp and not http etc. I’ve used tsocks but then you will need a socks server at your disposal also.”

But I have tsocks running through an SSH tunnel to my VPS in the US.

What am I missing?

By: ufufgnaf

ufufgnaf — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:20:01 +0000

don’t worry, found the way to get socks proxy
http://proxy-heaven.blogspot.com
you can get a list from here.

http://www.project2025.com/charon.php
you can get a software which tests proxy here.

By: ufufgnaf

ufufgnaf — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:42:23 +0000

Is there anyway we can get free or cheap and stable SOCKS server based in US?

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:24:21 +0000

One of the cheapest ways is to get a Linux VPS from swvps.com (US$10 per month). http://www.comparevps.com/ shows a list. If you just want an ssh machine for a SOCKS proxy then the memory of the VPS is really unimportant. You might want to go for one which has a large volume quota if you are going to use it for a lot of Hulu stuff. Also, be aware that getting get_iplayer to work with hulu is patchy because hulu keep re-obfuscating. I’ve found that using the VPS for ssh-based SOCKS for hulu in a web browser works fine if you use a tsocks wrapper or similar.

By: ufufgnaf

ufufgnaf — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:27:48 +0000

How did you get your US based ssh server?

By: colonel32

colonel32 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:05:21 +0000

Sorry I’m misinforming you, they are still there for the programme that did have them the other day.

Only the programme I first reported doesn’t have them, neither in the flash player or get_iplayer.

By: colonel32

colonel32 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:59:12 +0000

Ah, good point, no it doesn’t. It also doesn’t work on the flash iplayer for a programme which *did* have them last Friday. They’ve broken it! Cheers Phil.

By: linuxcentre

linuxcentre — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:52:09 +0000

Looks like a BBC problem. The feed they advertise is 404. Does it work on the flash iplayer through a web browser?

By: colonel32

colonel32 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:41:59 +0000

I’m recently having problems in v1.49 with empty srt files, for example:

./get_iplayer –pid=b00jf7l7 –subtitles –force –overwrite

INFO: Downloaded Subtitles to ./The_One_Show_-_23_03_2009_b00jf7l7_default.srt

which is zero-bytes long.

Have the BBC changed something?