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diamondp

Hi all. dont no if im in the right forum for this but here is my question. Ive just bought a new laptop with windows vista. i have downloaded channel 4 on demand and am trying to watch shameless and no matter what i do the programme wont play. you can hear the voices and sumtimes a add will play but thats it. Has this happened to anyone else or am i just doing something wrong, its doing my head in. PPPPPLLLLLSSSSSSSS help a sad shameless fan.

biko

What format are you downloading in? Realplayer or Windows media?
What application are you using to watch it?

diamondp

window media. keep saying i need flash player 9 but its on the computer.

Alanstrainor

This would probably get a better response in the window forum. And op, do you have windows web player installed?

diamondp

unfortunately i dont no. im not that up on computers (it would never show ) never even heard of a web player. how would i get it.
will try the window forum thanks

Tom Dunne

Moved from Laptops forum.

biko

Download and use this
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx

diamondp

downloaded it but still no luck. can watch series 5 but thats all. cant understand what im doing wrong. thanks anyway

Overheal

Are you operating the laptop at high performance or power saver?

hshortt

User Access Control may be blocking the content. Open the control panel, then open the user accounts and family safety applet, then open user accounts and on the bottom you'll see the link to turn off User Access Control.

Here's a link with screen-shots so you won't get lost.

Windows Media player 11 as linked above is already a component of Vista, it's unlikely that's causing it. Assuming you have enough bandwidth on the internet, and the player is properly configured it should be fine.

One question though, I had thought that the content from all the UK TV sites was not available to users outside the UK. Are you sure the content you are trying to watch is available to Ireland?

Cheerio

dulpit

hshortt wrote: »

One question though, I had thought that the content from all the UK TV sites was not available to users outside the UK. Are you sure the content you are trying to watch is available to Ireland?

Cheerio

Content definitely works in Ireland for 4oD(i use it a bit...)

It did stop working for me for a while when i downloaded & installed IE8 beta, but when i rolled back to IE7 it worked fine... Except a lot of times when i download a show to watch later it won't play at all, so i just stream instead...