Arghh, Demand Five player (channel 5 stuff basically)
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It just keeps playing in a crappy low-res artifcated quality window, pausing every 20 seconds to buffer.
No way to download shows like on BBC iPlayer in a nice high quality (some you can, but not the "decent" ones like CSI Miami from last night)
Bit pants.
Dave
No way to download shows like on BBC iPlayer in a nice high quality (some you can, but not the "decent" ones like CSI Miami from last night)
Bit pants.
Dave
Edited by Mr Whippy on Wednesday 24th June 19:40
Not sure on downloads. Not for the majority of programs it seems...
It seems I was a bit eager to dismiss the quality, but that was the adverts. The actual program footage isn't bad, but it's still quite 'crawly' with the video compression used.
Still, it's a pain. Just left it an hour on pause to 'cache' and it hasn't cached a thing. Just pressed play and it's "had a problem" and now I need to watch the adverts for 70s before I can scan to the end and then wait every 30s for it to buffer... grrr!
How hard to have them download?
Dave
It seems I was a bit eager to dismiss the quality, but that was the adverts. The actual program footage isn't bad, but it's still quite 'crawly' with the video compression used.
Still, it's a pain. Just left it an hour on pause to 'cache' and it hasn't cached a thing. Just pressed play and it's "had a problem" and now I need to watch the adverts for 70s before I can scan to the end and then wait every 30s for it to buffer... grrr!
How hard to have them download?
Dave
Mr Whippy said:
Not sure on downloads. Not for the majority of programs it seems...
It seems I was a bit eager to dismiss the quality, but that was the adverts. The actual program footage isn't bad, but it's still quite 'crawly' with the video compression used.
Still, it's a pain. Just left it an hour on pause to 'cache' and it hasn't cached a thing. Just pressed play and it's "had a problem" and now I need to watch the adverts for 70s before I can scan to the end and then wait every 30s for it to buffer... grrr!
How hard to have them download?
Dave
I find Demand Five pretty crap, more often than not doesn't work at all.It seems I was a bit eager to dismiss the quality, but that was the adverts. The actual program footage isn't bad, but it's still quite 'crawly' with the video compression used.
Still, it's a pain. Just left it an hour on pause to 'cache' and it hasn't cached a thing. Just pressed play and it's "had a problem" and now I need to watch the adverts for 70s before I can scan to the end and then wait every 30s for it to buffer... grrr!
How hard to have them download?
Dave
You can also Download on 4oD and I find it the best set-up in general although it seems they are replacing it soon.
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