Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Jan/11 19:05 | Jan18:
Dilwyn Jones wrote, on 18/Jan/11 17:31 | Jan18:
I need to ask a question which is slightly off-topic here.
Does anyone use BBC iPlayer on the same PC as the BBC iPlayer?
Urmm - what did you actually mean by that sentence.
Does anyone use it on t he same PC as QPC2 is what I meant.
I suspect you are talking about the Iplayer desktop used for playing
downloaded programs.
Tony
Sure. So it's not a "program" then - it's a Windows Desktop or something
like that, is that what you're saying?
I later found out there's no specific place to download it. It doesn't
tell you as far as I can see that the installation method is to download
a program, then it will find there's no iPlayer, try to download that,
find there's no Adobe Air, so try to download that and so on. If correct
(which I doubt) it implies that the last thing it downloads is the one
thing it can't work without - so it downloads a gigabyte of TV
programme, then the iplayer, then Adobe Air only to tell me when it gets
to 99% "download failed". That's the usual story with this type of thing
and it drives me absolutely insane. Here we are in 2011 and this sorts
of thing happens regular as clockwork.
We've been on a forum looking for info (not the bbc one, that just came
up with a blank screen) where we saw loads of people moaning about it,
so for once it seems I can't blame either Windoze or my PC or my broadband.
In fact, one person says it eats bandwidth so much it's a guaranteed way
to get your ISP to throttle your broadband speed. Plenty of people say
if you don't live in a high speed fibre optic link area, don't bother.
Others seem to get it working instantly and praise it to the hilt.
Unless there's a quick fix to the problems with this iPlayer I don't
intend to waste any more time on it.
The program is called "BBC Iplayer Desktop.app" on my Macbook. It
downloaded and installed when I first downloaded a program.
I googled and it seems Adobe Air (which you mention) is a runtime that
allows applications (like BBC Iplayer Desktop) to simulate browsers.
Tony
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