BBC fixes BT Home Hub auto-vomit bug

BBC fixes BT Home Hub auto-vomit bug

Daniel Fleshbourne on 28 August 2008 - 17:22 · 9 comments & 5662 views

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BBC engineers have solved a mysterious, long-running bug that has meant iPlayer and live TV streams have frequently prompted the BT Home Hub, UK's most common router, to reset itself.

The source of the problem has been identified after a lengthy, "tricky" search and a fix is currently working its way through the BBC's back-end systems, iPlayer and embedded media architect Andy Smith told El Reg. iPlayer catch-up streams of TV and radio no longer cause the crashes, while live webcasts of news programming should get the all-clear soon.

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#1 k-tech on 28 Aug 2008 - 18:27

People still actually use the BT Home ~~Bomb~~...hub?

(2 replies) #2 Airlink on 28 Aug 2008 - 18:29

Blame Adobe:
Quote: "The fix for the "compatability issue" was found by tweaking an obscure undocumented setting in Adobe's software."

Or Blame the BBC?

I blame the BBC. It was their decision to make their "iPlayer" proprietary in the first place. They could have just followed the YouTube model... but oh no... can't do it that way, then it would actually work like it's supposed to. No, let's make sure that everything is needlessly complicated and technically obscure. That'll please the customers!

Idiots.

#2.1 joeydoo on 29 Aug 2008 - 15:59

Yeah... they should use flash and offer a high quality option!!

Oh wait they do do that.. I've used iplayer from the start and just streaming it directly using the embedded flash version of the shows. I've never had to install anything and the quality has been perfectly watchable (better than youtube). Recently they've improved it even more.

#2.2 JoeC on 29 Aug 2008 - 21:01

Agreed with joey. The quality of the service is far better than Youtube. At some times in the day the videos are very stop/start-ish which is either due to heavy use of the service, my line being slower or some of both, but it's not for long.

Besides, why should they follow the Youtube model? They've got the cash to try new things out and they've tried something new out and done very, very well with it. Good show, BBC.

Now start putting more shows on TV that I want to watch on iPlayer xD

#3 Ksg on 28 Aug 2008 - 19:41

Doubt its BBCs fault, probabbly BTs for not fixing any of the bugs that have been present for ages.

SLL connections simply wont work
No new connections and random times
Random Restarts

Seriously how hard is it to prevent a router from killing itself

#4 +acxz on 28 Aug 2008 - 19:50

Finally

I've been pretty happy with my Home Hub... this is the only thing that was wrong with it, and it only affected me about 1 in 5 times I watched a video on the iPlayer, but I'm glad to see it has been fixed.

#5 Max™ on 28 Aug 2008 - 20:02

I have been extremely happy with my home hub, and I have the original version. It has restarted on occasion, but not when streaming any kind of video. A minor annoyance really. The only major gripe I have with it is that it takes years to start up from scratch.

#6 Harreh on 29 Aug 2008 - 12:49

Don't think I've noticed this bug before.. maybe it restarted it self but I never felt the iPlayer was to blame.

It's a pretty god awful router though.

#7 sreteP on 29 Aug 2008 - 13:25

Bad router, and the phone that you can get with it is even worse!

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