iPlayer,stopping after a few minutes.

[salymap]

Recently, on Antiques Roadshow and Eggheads the programme has gone back to the beginning, telling me there are other episodes available after5 or 10 minutes.

This can't beright, I hadn't touched the computer at all once the programme started.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

BBC i-Player is behaving very strangely for us, too, sals: the image flickers terribly (film of people walking makes them look as if they're doing the hokey-cokey, and traffic looks as if they've all filled up on "kangaroo juice") and then, about 15 mins from the end of the programme, it'll stop completely with a message that I haven't enough bandwidth (which I think is a very personal comment to make). Following the "Test Your Bandwidth" instructions then tells me that I have bandwidth a-plenty and to spare, so I restart the programme, it picks up where it left off and continues to the end with no further problem (apart from Simon Shama, Lucy Worsley or whoever continuing to put it in-out, in-out and shake it all about).

No problem with the itvPlayer (except that they always ask me to sign in and give my postcode every time).

[salymap]

BBC i-Player is behaving very strangely for us, too, sals: the image flickers terribly (film of people walking makes them look as if they're doing the hokey-cokey, and traffic looks as if they've all filled up on "kangaroo juice") and then, about 15 mins from the end of the programme, it'll stop completely with a message that I haven't enough bandwidth (which I think is a very personal comment to make). Following the "Test Your Bandwidth" instructions then tells me that I have bandwidth a-plenty and to spare, so I restart the programme, it picks up where it left off and continues to the end with no further problem (apart from Simon Shama, Lucy Worsley or whoever continuing to put it in-out, in-out and shake it all about).

No problem with the itvPlayer (except that they always ask me to sign in and give my postcode every time).

Thanks ferney, wonder whatit is. I don't use it much but my only TV has died afterlong and faithful service.

ah well, wonder how it is now.

[Russ]

It's probably your ISP not providing enough consistently large enough bandwidth, and iPlayer's buffering is getting confused.

Russ

[teamsaint]

frankly, iplayer is close to useless round here.
no idea what the problem is, but i seldom get through a programme. Latest casualty was the Transatlantic Sessions.

just makes me go listen to someCds or something, never a hardship, but irritating nonetheless. .