bbc iplayer

[Steve]

What rubbish. I'm trying to watch last nights top gear. It keeps stuttering, pausing to download a bit more. Oh, and now its stopped. This content doesn't appear to be working, please try later. Last thing I heard was "last year you couldnt buy a BMW unless you were a cock."

IS THIS WHAT WE PAY OUR LICENCE FEE FOR????

Worst bit is, unlike ALL OTHER WEB MEDIA PLAYERS if you pause it, thinking it will carry on downloading, YOUR WRONG!!!!! It stops downloading!!!

 

[kevplumb]

IS THIS WHAT WE PAY OUR LICENCE FEE FOR???? icon_evil.gif

you mean you pay it

 

[Rob]

Been trying to watch Survivor all night. Get about 30 seconds before it just gives up and says unavailable.

Agree. It's rubbish.

 

[breezer]

but you would not say that if it worked fine would you?

somedays you have a headache

 

[FourFootMedia]

Plays fine for me. Sounds like your internet is a bit duff.

Why not download it to your computer and play from there?

 

[Steve]

I ended up downlaoding the iplayer manager thing, and it was downloading at 500kbps+

but i shouldnt have had to do this.

 

[Blasphemous]

I ended up downlaoding the iplayer manager thing, and it was downloading at 500kbps+

but i shouldnt have had to do this.

What's your BB Speed?

 

[Steve]

8 meg. and theres nothing wrong with the connection, itunes always gets 700kbps or more when downloading.

 

[Deluks]

All these players are nonsense, I tried out the channel 4 one a while back. They make you jump through hoops to view+download progs, and also installs itself all over your PC and hogs the system. I eventually got rid.

The fear of piracy makes media so annoying to access legally that it's far more convenient to just download whatever you want to watch from one of the bittorrent sites.


I bought a Beastie Boys CD a few years back, that had copy protection, wouldn't play back correctly on my PC. I was forced to download a separate program to rip it, I then burnt myself a CDR of the album I'd already purchased to enable me to be able to play it.

 

[Shytalkz]

I bought a Beastie Boys CD a few years back, that had copy protection, wouldn't play back correctly on my PC. I was forced to download a separate program to rip it, I then burnt myself a CDR of the album I'd already purchased to enable me to be able to play it.

Napster @ £9.95 a month and Tunebite software £15 one-off: all you need to make as many unprotected tracks/albums as you want, for one fixed low monthly payment

 

[AndrewSchofield]

Totally agree with the OP. I tried last year to download an episode of Ashes to Ashes a couple of days after it was on the TV. It took forever to download and then i couldn't get it to play any way. I eventually got it working, watched 10mins and then thought i'd watch the rest the next day. Came back to it and it told me the content had expired and was no longer available to view. A complete waste of time so i haven't even bothered trying again.

I also have problems viewing the scorecard/listening to TMS when the crickt is on. It used to work fine but they've made changes this year and i struggle to get it to work. The BBC are fast becoming a waste of time (and my licence fee) - in my opinion anyway!

 

[Thermo]

you didnt miss anything with ashes to ashes, crap follow up series.

as for watching top gear, well i watched a recording of it just fine snuggled up in bed last night. arent vcrs wonderful

 

[Alison556]

I tried watching something on iPlayer as well and it kept stopping. So I tried to download it. Installed the iPlayer download doo-dah, went to download the programme and it shut everything down telling me that there was an error.

It's so much easier to download a bittorrent, put it on a DVD and go to bed to watch it.

 

[Thermo]

ah we think along the same lines!

 

[Alison556]

ah we think along the same lines!

Don't tell everybody that we go to bed with a DVD though!!!!

Talking of bittorrents - anybody know the legalities of file sharing television programmes?