RTE PLAYER

dollypet

Grrrrr biggest hape of sh1t. I've been watching it buffer more than the program I wanted to watch. Next time i want to watch some top rate buffering it'll be the first place I go. :mad::mad::mad:

mikom

dollypet wrote: »

Grrrrr biggest hape of sh1t. I've been watching it buffer more than the program I wanted to watch. Next time i want to watch some top rate buffering it'll be the first place I go. :mad::mad::mad:

Keep paying your TV licence........

kfallon

Never had a problem with it tbh

Mr.Crinklewood

Works ok for me.

Maybe pop over the the TV forum?

Kensington

Maybe it's your internets that's crap?

ITS_A_BADGER

test your internet connection here : http://www.speedtest.net

If your getting less than 2 mbs download speed that could be the problem

phasers

My only problem with it is that they make you watch 3 ads before the program comes on. Don't we pay enough money to have an ad free website? We already put up with ads on the TV!

Shryke

But why be decent when you can maximise profit and spit on your customer base.

DesperateDan

4od on YouTube is literally amazing, why is every other TV company not following suit? I mean everyone knows YouTube is pretty much the best video player going anyway

PogMoThoin

dollypet wrote: »

Grrrrr biggest hape of sh1t. I've been watching it buffer more than the program I wanted to watch. Next time i want to watch some top rate buffering it'll be the first place I go. :mad::mad::mad:

Buffering isn't a player problem but a broadband issue. It works fine for me

Guy:Incognito

Shryke wrote: »

But why be decent when you can maximise profit and spit on your customer base.

Does RTE not lose money?

Shryke

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Does RTE not lose money?

They lose money like pros.

Spiritual

Shryke wrote: »

They lose money like pros.

And are capitalised by the Government. Hang on that sounds familiar.

Death and Taxes

dollypet wrote: »

Grrrrr biggest hape of sh1t. I've been watching it buffer more than the program I wanted to watch. Next time i want to watch some top rate buffering it'll be the first place I go. :mad::mad::mad:

Why blame RTE for your crap internet connection?

Plumpynutt

Do they offer RTE player in HD yet?

ITS_A_BADGER

OSI wrote: »

I wouldn't be blaming the broadband connection so quickly. Have a 150Mb/s connection and watching the Ireland South Africa match last weekend I got buffering nearly every 2 minutes.

Isn't real time streaming different from On Demand streaming tho?

joydivision

Love/ hate player ?
Just tape love hate you have all the good parts of rte player and none of the **** .

Sky King

*Slighty related note* does anyone else find the drop down menus on the TV section of rte.ie dissapear just when you're trying to click on them or is it just me?

PogMoThoin

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Isn't real time streaming different from On Demand streaming tho?

Yes, completely different. On demand is from a dedicated datacentre, real time is from a mobile location like a sports ground

Capt'n Midnight

RTE may also be getting hammered by people who don't have SKY/UPC/Saorview

PogMoThoin

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

RTE may also be getting hammered by people who don't have SKY/UPC/Saorview

Yes, and my sisters in the USA, who use a vpn to view streams of matches on the RTE website

biko

It's your internet tubes OP, they do be too small.

keithclancy

OP, watch this Video .. will explain everything:

http://www.patience-is-a-virtue.org/

EmptyTree

Plumpynutt wrote: »

Do they offer RTE player in HD yet?

It's a wonder it's in colour never mind HD.

bodhrandude

I have a fairly strong broadband connection too and have had buffering problems every few minutes as well. Whats worse is loosing your connection and having to refresh the page and sit through the 3 ads again until you can get to the bit before it lost connection to continue. Got fed up with it in the end and just use Irish Torrents now as it works out much faster than loading up on the iplayer.

Plumpynutt

EmptyTree wrote: »

It's a wonder it's in colour never mind HD.

Fact

It amazes me that they don't offer it, how anyone is able to sit through anything on the player in Standard Def is beyond me, it's so sh1te

padd b1975

Plumpynutt wrote: »

Fact

It amazes me that they don't offer it, how anyone is able to sit through anything on the player in Standard Def is beyond me, it's so sh1te

Yeah....poor bastards:rolleyes:

FanadMan

If I want to watch something that is being streamed live, I always use Aertv

Seems to be way better than RTE Player. Picture quality is top and way less buffering.

Pottler

Nothing as bad as trouble with buffers, or so my mate PJ Ward tells me.

brummytom

phasers wrote: »

My only problem with it is that they make you watch 3 ads before the program comes on. Don't we pay enough money to have an ad free website? We already put up with ads on the TV!

AdBlock Plus gets rid of them. If I have to watch another advert for the Mario Rosenstock show or whatever it is, I'll scream. He can't even do impressions!

Odysseus

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

test your internet connection here : http://www.speedtest.net

If your getting less than 2 mbs download speed that could be the problem

Sorry OT, but has anyone ever use the tune ups that these sites offer for free. Are they any good or will it just mess up your laptop?

According to their test my connection is quite slow

shruikan2553

Odysseus wrote: »

Sorry OT, but has anyone ever use the tune ups that these sites offer for free. Are they any good or will it just mess up your laptop?

According to their test my connection is quite slow

speedtest.net is fine and found it quite accurate. If you dont have UPC it will be quite slow.

df1985

The 4od app for the ipad is class, even on a weak signal everything streams perfectly.

dollypet

dollypet wrote: »

Grrrrr biggest hape of sh1t. I've been watching it buffer more than the program I wanted to watch. Next time i want to watch some top rate buffering it'll be the first place I go. :mad::mad::mad:

rte player works like a dream are you sure your not talking about the tv3 player

Guy:Incognito

Shryke wrote: »

They lose money like pros.

SO how are the "maximising profits"?

DesperateDan

Odysseus wrote: »

Sorry OT, but has anyone ever use the tune ups that these sites offer for free. Are they any good or will it just mess up your laptop?

According to their test my connection is quite slow

I've found them advertising TuneUp Utilities in the past often on speedtest.net. Personally I think it's really cool and well worth the 20 quid or whatever it is these days. It does everything CC Cleaner does (the nearest and most popular free equivalent), plus loads of other cool stuff, like changing the priority of processes and programs so the computer runs as smoothly as possible, nice handy graphs of what's eating up the most hd space and ram, turbo mode which kills all non-essential processes, alerts to sensible problems etc. you didn't know you had - like not running Windows Check Disk after a certain period etc.

Canis Lupus

Odysseus wrote: »

Sorry OT, but has anyone ever use the tune ups that these sites offer for free. Are they any good or will it just mess up your laptop?

According to their test my connection is quite slow

No, leave those pctuneup adverts alone.

Speedtest btw is purely a broadband speed checker. It's nothing to do with your pc.

NegativeCreep

They actually must be taking the piss with that site. It's ridiculous. Got 2 minutes into a show and it buffered 7 times. 7 TIMES!! I'm done with RTE and when I get my own place I'm NEVER getting a telly license.

ads20101

I have a 3m/b connection and is very consistant at 2.55 even at peak times. I find it odd that the rte player has to buffer and can occasionally be jumpy when Netflix can stream instantly at med HD with no interruptions.

thier

I missed the first half of the toy show because of this pile of sh1te.

Serbitar

You're as well off using AerTv. Gave up on the RTE player an hour ago.

thier

Serbitar wrote: »

You're as well off using AerTv. Gave up on the RTE player an hour ago.

You need to be in Ireland to look at that.

Serbitar

thier wrote: »

You need to be in Ireland to look at that.

That's a shame. Wouldn't want to be relying on the Player as an expat so.

RDM_83 again

shruikan2553 wrote: »

speedtest.net is fine and found it quite accurate. If you dont have UPC it will be quite slow.

Just check its connecting to a test server nearest to your actual location (when I run it at the minute it puts me in mainland UK though this seems to be where IP shows up on other sites to )

FanadMan

DesperateDan wrote: »

I've found them advertising TuneUp Utilities in the past often on speedtest.net. Personally I think it's really cool and well worth the 20 quid or whatever it is these days. It does everything CC Cleaner does (the nearest and most popular free equivalent), plus loads of other cool stuff, like changing the priority of processes and programs so the computer runs as smoothly as possible, nice handy graphs of what's eating up the most hd space and ram, turbo mode which kills all non-essential processes, alerts to sensible problems etc. you didn't know you had - like not running Windows Check Disk after a certain period etc.

+1

Love TuneUp Utils - have installed the trial version on a lot of computers I've repaired and suggested the owners upgrade to the full version. Well, it's nearly all old XP computers I've installed it on But wouldn't touch those ads - never know if you're getting the real thing.

iwantbroadband

I'm relegated to using mobile broadband (as I'm in the sticks) and I expect some buffering, especially in the evenings when it's highly contended.

In most cases when watching video online, pausing the programme and letting it load for a while does the trick, the video preloads, and I might only have to do this once or twice an hour.

However not for RTE Player. It doesn't seem to load more than 20-30 secs in advance when paused, so there's no way to avoid it.

What gives RTE? You can leave 4oD, Youtube, Vimeo, etc..etc.. paused to preload and they'll work fine, but not RTE Player. Trying to save on bandwidth costs? It's harmful in the long run, provide a poor service and you're just driving people away to using torrents - I imagine that's what you were trying to stop in the first place.

Please sort it out.