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FVP-5000T iPlayer VERY slow

The BBC iPlayer team were quite clear in their response to me and it was very polite and informative, they said "I've checked your Humax model, FVP-5000T, unfortunately it hasn't been certified for use with the iPlayer app. This means while the app may work on the device, we can't guarantee a good user experience. We only support devices which are certified so you may experience issues with BBC iPlayer on uncertified devices." Which I think is fair enough.
The list of certified devices at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/supported-devices/humax doesn't include the FVP-5000T but it does include the FVP-4000T which has very similar hardware to the FVP-5000T and runs the same software. Humax advertising at https://uk.humaxdigital.com/product/fvp-5000t/ certainly includes iPlayer.
 
That list is odd. Similar to the FVP-4000T/FVP-5000T anomaly, it has the HD-FOX-T2 (until October) but not the HDR-FOX-T2. That date has passed now, so probably a moot point.
 
Transcoding higher defs to StDef before exporting stops anyone cracking DRM on HiDef
There is no DRM on HiDef for the media streams. They are transmitted in the clear. It's only the EPG that is encrypted, which I would have thought is of limited use to any potential pirate, and long-since cracked anyway.
The encrypting of the video and audio on to disk on commercially produced boxes is therefore just stupid. You can record what you like unencrypted fairly trivially on a Raspberry Pi with a £7 DVB-T add-on.
 
That date has passed now, so probably a moot point.
"Until 30th October" – but which year?! It's hardly moot if BBC were supposed to be supporting iPlayer on HD-FOX but weren't.

There is no DRM on HiDef for the media streams. They are transmitted in the clear. It's only the EPG that is encrypted, which I would have thought is of limited use to any potential pirate, and long-since cracked anyway.
The encrypting of the video and audio on to disk on commercially produced boxes is therefore just stupid. You can record what you like unencrypted fairly trivially on a Raspberry Pi with a £7 DVB-T add-on.
Sure, but I'm talking about the difference between a casual consumer and an enthusiast. Casual consumers are not likely to be cobbling together kit which can rip direct from broadcast, and off-the-shelf kit is beholden to the licensing. The aim, surely, is to stop casual consumers becoming pirates.
 
It's the same as recording the Top 40 to cassette – a fun activity of our youth, and illegal, but never going to challenge the commercial offering so tolerated.
I'm fairly sure there was a recording licence that could be bought (1980s?) that was supposed to allow personal use. Can't be sure who issued it.BPI? Probably a scam, but my father fell for it and got a licence for at least one year. I can't find any record of such a licence on my brief web search.
Transcoding higher defs to StDef before exporting stops anyone cracking DRM on HiDef (cough, cough).
For BBC stuff, get_iplayer or YTD can be your friend - and it often, but not always, gets rid of the end-credit squeeze and the gobby announcer.

Sometimes I'd like any reasonable copy of a programme. StdDef will do. What happens if I ever get a large screen TV - I don't know.
 
I'm not sure sure I have done the quoting right so please forgive me.
Black Hole said:
The BBC iPlayer team were quite clear in their response to me and it was very polite and informative, they said "I've checked your Humax model, FVP-5000T, unfortunately it hasn't been certified for use with the iPlayer app. This means while the app may work on the device, we can't guarantee a good user experience. We only support devices which are certified so you may experience issues with BBC iPlayer on uncertified devices." Which I think is fair enough.

Humax and the other hand - apart from instructing me to "delete cookies" and perform a Factory Reset, achieved nothing. They denied that the FVP-5000T had any problem and said that it was certified to run with iPlayer. On being pressed, they recommended that I use a Smart TV or Chromecast dongle. But still did not admit and problem with their box - just that it was out of production.
So pretty much what I said then. "Not certified" means limited capability no longer able to keep up. "Was" is true – it was iPlayer-capable in the past. And why would you expect any manufacturer to expend effort and cost revising an obsolete unit? It did what it was supposed to do when sold, and for a reasonable time thereafter. No third-party manufacturer can accept responsibility for standards changes outside their control.

My reply:
When I said "They denied that the FVP-5000T had any problem and said that it was certified to run with iPlayer" the was was in bold for emphasis - ie the Humax team were assuring me that the FVP-5000T is still certified, not that it used to be.

My box is only 3 years old - that's not old technology by anyone's standards. Suppliers are (I think by law) be required to maintain what they sell for much longer than 3 years. The problem is that neither BBC iPlayer nor Humax are prepared to take responsibility for what they have supplied. The BBC team have said that my box is not certified by them and Humax have refused to speak to even the iPlayer team - I did ask them to!

This is entirely a software problem in my opinion that could be fixed by either Humax updating their firmware properly or the BBC team updating their iPlayer app. Both of these remedies are within their remit and I would think not be beyond their capability to do - but they won't - and Humax won't even talk to the iPlayer team.

To say "It did what it was supposed to do when sold, and for a reasonable time thereafter. No third-party manufacturer can accept responsibility for standards changes outside their control." is not true as they are making no effort for a piece of kit that is less than 3 years old, which I would say ids not a "reasonable time thereafter" - so it is not a fair comment.

Tony
 
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Thanks for the grammar lesson.

I did mean to write "said that it was certified" meaning that it had been certified in the past - which it was.

Otherwise very useful to know.
 
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