Tg4

seanos

Apologies if this is the wrong section.

Thought may be of interest, TG4 now have free-to-air stream goin,
http://www.tg4.tv

flogen

Cool stuff; I heard they were doing it for wimbeldon, didn't think it was across the whole channel.

Looks like they're going to archive shows too... very nice
Anyone know if it's IP restricted?

seanos

Well there is already archived news/ros na run etc available (although I believe it is a pay2view service).
I'm unsure if the archives are becoming available.
I don't believe there is any restrictions.

Elmo

It is it only their Home Produced shows they are providing? If so it prob isn't restricted.

Looks good.

Have RTE or TV3 done this?

flogen

Elmo wrote:

It is it only their Home Produced shows they are providing? If so it prob isn't restricted.

Looks good.

Have RTE or TV3 done this?

Not yet, the closest we got was when RTÉ forgot to drop the feed from the Haughey funeral, so it ran over until Sunday night, which was cool.

They will stream live Champions League matches next season though... so that's a start.
Must keep an eye out and see if they show everything or just home made shows

L1011

The streaming is being done by Setanta!

Got a "Setanta Broadband ACCESS DENIED" thingy there, no idea why, probably someone else on the VPN using it.

Mossy Monk

i only get a schedule

seanos

IE will work better than firefox for this stream.
Also, ensuring you have an up-to-date Windows Media Player/IE installed should help.
Access denied thing is ... odd, hate to sound cliche'd, but try clearing cookies/cache?
Also, try Setting 1-4, some will offer better performance depending on your ISP etc.

flogen

Can't get it to work in IE or FF, although I've had trouble with WMP for a long time.. tried launching the feed in WMP directly but it didn't work..

I had WMP11 installed, rolling back to WMP10 now to see if it worked (as 11 was a beta etc,)

seanos

You getting error message, or it just not displaying video/sound?

flogen

When I launch it in WMP10 it says one or more codecs could not be found... when I try it in IE or FF it just doesn't play... as I said though I've had issue with WMP anyway

seanos

Ah, yeah, once start getting those messages generally a bad sign.
I find the whole codecs issue with WMP fairly bad in general, if it works it's ok, but once it breaks, very hard to fix.

Would advise getting rid of any 'codec packs' you may have installed.
The safest/best codec pack I've found is : http://cccp-project.net/
It aims not to mess up other codecs etc, try it out anyway, it may help your issue (and is a safe install either way).

Can't help much other than that, I'm sorry to say, found it very difficult to fix codec-related problems (I get a great black & white picture half the time, heh).

Mossy Monk

works fine at home but only on IE. that could prove handy for some folks, nice to see TG4 provide it

Telefís

Indeed, great service and hopefully RTÉ will quickly follow suit for selected material.
The TG4 service has a 20 second delay at present - wouldn't expect it to be that long!

SPDUB

Without a Trace is currently coming through so unless someone has made a mistake I'm guessing it's IP restricted

Mossy Monk

Telef&#237 wrote: »

The TG4 service has a 20 second delay at present - wouldn't expect it to be that long!

6 seconds for me

quite good really

Our man in Havana

Won't work here in work, our ip addy's are french!

marclt

From the FAQ:

Can I watch all TG4 programmes live on the Internet?

You can watch many TG4 programmes live on the Internet. However due to broadcast rights restrictions not all programmes can be made available.

JohnC.

Worked fine in Firefox on the first attempt for me.

SPDUB

flogen wrote:

Can't get it to work in IE or FF, although I've had trouble with WMP for a long time.. tried launching the feed in WMP directly but it didn't work..

I had WMP11 installed, rolling back to WMP10 now to see if it worked (as 11 was a beta etc,)

These are the properties I'm getting off MediaPlayer

Windows Media Video 9

Windows Media Audio 9
32 kbps, 44 kHz, mono (A/V) 1-pass CBR

mjsmyth

Working perfectly for me!

Anyone know if it will work in the UK? My brother would be very interested in this.

MJ

coolcon

Its working great for me too! What a fantastic idea :cool: . I always thought that tv should be broadcast over the net somehow anyway.

channelsurfer

working here great for the tennis. anyone try to see outside ireland if the tennis is blocked like the bbc do when they check your ip to make sure you are a uk viewer only.?

mjsmyth

Some friends in the US tried and only one had a problem. The others all got to watch Wimbledon in Irish

MJ

Our man in Havana

Anyone know of any Irish Proxies we can route through?

kilasser

Working fine for me here in London.

Elmo

They are showing movies on this service too. Do they have the rights for their movies for international showings?

seanos

The only international stuff they're showing is home-brew, i.e. their own productions.

Ireland sees majority of what is on.

Elmo

Their Showing movies as well. Don't know about Series, but their was a movie on on thursday.