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 -- Liam
