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BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« on: 10 November 2007, 15:09:59 »
1) They use Kontiki and it kills my PC

2) FUll of DRM rubbish so can't burn to DVD

3) My TV has no componenent in my card has component out!!!!
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #1 on: 10 November 2007, 16:24:04 »
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1) They use Kontiki and it kills my PC

2) FUll of DRM rubbish so can't burn to DVD

3) My TV has no componenent in my card has component out!!!!
1) Yes, beeb always said it would be p2p based
2) Yes, by design. Thats the point! Beeb only have a licence to make (re)distributable for a set time
3) A very obvious answer, involving landfill.
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #2 on: 10 November 2007, 17:24:19 »
For those of us that tinker with MCE clicky MCE plugin for 4OD/BBC I its still in beta but looks like it might be handy.
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #3 on: 10 November 2007, 18:03:20 »
what are you talking about :-[
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #4 on: 10 November 2007, 18:05:00 »
Well Kontiki is absolute rubbish compared to all torrent engines I have used.

What is the point on offering downloads if you have to watch on hte PC?

Anyway just bought a 5m S Video cable to try out
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #5 on: 10 November 2007, 18:08:49 »
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Well Kontiki is absolute rubbish compared to all torrent engines I have used.

What is the point on offering downloads if you have to watch on hte PC?

Anyway just bought a 5m S Video cable to try out
You can make an adapter to do vga + audio to scart IIRC Martin.
I think TB knows more about it, or DVI to HDMI if you have the inputs on your TV.
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« Reply #6 on: 10 November 2007, 18:14:54 »
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Well Kontiki is absolute rubbish compared to all torrent engines I have used.

What is the point on offering downloads if you have to watch on hte PC?

Anyway just bought a 5m S Video cable to try out
You can make an adapter to do vga + audio to scart IIRC Martin.
I think TB knows more about it, or DVI to HDMI if you have the inputs on your TV.


Can't find my monitor 2 adaptor, anyway not too much to watch so not too bothered.

My card has three outputs 2 usable

VGA up to 1280x1024
DVI
COmponent and SVIdeo
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« Reply #7 on: 10 November 2007, 18:17:58 »
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Well Kontiki is absolute rubbish compared to all torrent engines I have used.

What is the point on offering downloads if you have to watch on hte PC?

Anyway just bought a 5m S Video cable to try out
You can make an adapter to do vga + audio to scart IIRC Martin.
I think TB knows more about it, or DVI to HDMI if you have the inputs on your TV.


Can't find my monitor 2 adaptor, anyway not too much to watch so not too bothered.

My card has three outputs 2 usable

VGA up to 1280x1024
DVI
COmponent and SVIdeo
Card has plenty of outputs then, depends what yur tv inputs are.
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« Reply #8 on: 10 November 2007, 18:40:56 »
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Well Kontiki is absolute rubbish compared to all torrent engines I have used.

What is the point on offering downloads if you have to watch on hte PC?

Anyway just bought a 5m S Video cable to try out
You can make an adapter to do vga + audio to scart IIRC Martin.
I think TB knows more about it, or DVI to HDMI if you have the inputs on your TV.


Can't find my monitor 2 adaptor, anyway not too much to watch so not too bothered.

My card has three outputs 2 usable

VGA up to 1280x1024
DVI
COmponent and SVIdeo
Card has plenty of outputs then, depends what yur tv inputs are.


PAL RF
DVB-T RF
Composite
SVid
RGB
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #9 on: 10 November 2007, 18:48:18 »
Looks like VGA to scart then, I think TB has a diagram for an adapter somewhere.
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #10 on: 10 November 2007, 18:49:57 »
Planning on new TV IF I get a Christmas bonus
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #11 on: 10 November 2007, 18:58:04 »
dvi to hdmi cables are cheap on fleabay.
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #12 on: 10 November 2007, 22:31:58 »
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PAL RF
DVB-T RF
Composite
SVid
RGB
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Get something from this millenium ;)

Seriously, the only option is RGB SCART, rest are all unusable.  If you have an ATI card, fairly easy to do the lead. If you have Nvidia, don't bother.

S-Video/TV-out on your video card will resmaple to 640 x 480 whatever the resolution its trying to display. Then add this to the 576 lines of a PAL set, and you can see with TV Out is utterly unusable.
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #13 on: 10 November 2007, 22:38:42 »
Running the portable upstairs on svga, tv is okish but text on a webpage is virtually unreadable.
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Re: BBC Iplayer 4OD are pants!
« Reply #14 on: 10 November 2007, 22:39:10 »
NVIDIA GForce 7600S

SVideo worked quite well, 4OD quality is terrible not a patch on torrents.

NExt time I will get the aspect ratio correct.

Will try with some BBC stuff next time - I have a programme on my HDD to watch

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