On Wednesday 16 March 2016 13:56:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:54:07 Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On 2016-03-16, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 March 2016 19:58:18 Brian wrote: > > >> On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 08:57:20 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >> > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is > > >> > totally indifferent to the fact that Linux users can't watch it on a > > >> > computer. Well, Brian probably can. But he hasn't let the rest of > > >> > us into the secret. > > >> > > >> I am on Jessie. hal, libhal1, libhal-storage and hal-info from an > > >> Ubuntu PPA gave me access to 4od. My belief is that hal on Wheezy > > >> doesn't have what it takes. > > > > > > Thanks, Brian! I'll try it. > > > > > > I did have Channel 4 working well on Wheezy (my desktop), but have > > > never managed to get it going on Jessie (my television). Channel 4 on > > > Wheezy suddenly stopped working a few weeks ago after an update. So I > > > am back to not being able to get 4oD at all. I can get live programmes > > > by actually using the television!! I watch catch-up a lot more than > > > live programmes. (I don't watch either much! But as I get older and > > > more decrepit I watch more. :-( ) > > > > > > I have tried various things on Jessie without success. I'll have > > > another go with your list in hand. > > > > > > Lisi > > > > I've just tried Channel 4 using Google Chrome[1] on jessie, and it seems > > to work. I say "seems" because the site prompts me for account details I > > don't have, whereas iceweasel/firefox on the same machine didn't even > > get that far. > > > > 1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main > > Ah, yes. But after you have logged in and you click on "play", a nice > little round white thing will start to go round in front of the picture you > want to watch, and round, and round, and round ... until eventually you > will realise that a rotating white almost-circle is all you are going to > get. > > Anyhow, thanks Liam. I'll try again this afternoon in case the latest > upgrade has actually done the trick.
Did a full upgrade - 384 packages (there has been a point upgrade in TDE). Tried Channel 4. Round and round and round went the white circle. :-( Next to try Brian's packages. Lisi
