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The RTE Player Thread

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  • #32
    DeSelby83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭DeSelby83


    Has anyone got a fix for this adblocker nonsense on the rte player on a laptop. I don't have any installed yet it keeps telling me I do.
    EDIT: Using a VPN and have tried incognito mode and still getting the same errors


  • #33
    Donegal Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donegal Storm


    Anyone with webOS on an LG tv here? RTE player is completely broken for the past few weeks for me, ads play fine but then just get a "This service is having issues" message, if I click try again it just plays the ads (instantly and in perfect resolution) again before the same message pops up. Incredibly frustrating.

    Already complained to RTE about it but just got some nonsense reply that my 150mbps internet is probably the issue


  • #34
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,355 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Hopefully they'll sort things out.
    RTÉ 'committed' to improving Player after complaints about 'frustrating' and 'unusable' service

    https://www.thejournal.ie/rte-player-complaints-2-4932320-Dec2019/

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #35
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    i just tried it on 3 browser,s . i downloaded the brave browser today .
    The player runs the ads fine, then it says security error.
    i ,m running windows 7 on a pc.
    This is the first time i could not use the iplayer .
    I,ll just watch the programs using another website .
    i,m not using an adblocker.
    the bbc iplayer would always work until a year ago.
    i think the bbc player requires users to be registered .
    i just watch bbc live using a website stream, not from the bbc.
    my internet speed is 50meg per second.
    there,s only a few programs i watch on rte anyway.


  • #36
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I tried to watch the first episode of Vikings season 6 on the player, all was grand for the first quarter until commercial breaks, the series never resumed after the ads so I refreshed it and it went back to the starting. Stupid player. I ended up downloading it in the end, why it doesn't automatically go back to the episode I don't know, but it ruined legitimately watching the series as it doesn't explain what to do after the ads just sits there in the last froze frame. It takes me 2 or 3 minutes to download an episode as a torrent, RTE player is pretty useless.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #37
    Fionn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Fionn


    I tried it today on my PC, after I clicked on a programme it just came back with 'This programme cannot be streamed due to rights restrictions'
    Why in the blazes have they got the programme up if you cant stream it??

    Another load of rubbish from RTE!


  • #38
    Full_Circle_81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Full_Circle_81


    Has anyone else noticed how it doesn't let you stream certain shows on certain platforms? Godfather of Harlem is available on its Android app, but not available on its LG TV app? And this is the updated red version of the app on the tv too....


  • #39
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,991 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Fionn wrote: »
    I tried it today on my PC, after I clicked on a programme it just came back with 'This programme cannot be streamed due to rights restrictions'
    Why in the blazes have they got the programme up if you cant stream it??

    Another load of rubbish from RTE!

    What programme said that? And do you use a VPN?


  • #40
    colman1212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭colman1212


    Using Express VPN and having the same issue. I want to watch the Six Nations :-(


  • #41
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    will RTE player still work if i change my location to UK on my samsung TV?



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  • #42
    dub_citizen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭dub_citizen


    I live in Dublin, pay tv license, have broadband. I have a Samsung smart tv, 2021. it has RTE player app. I have a RTE account.

    However I cannot watch the World cup matches live from app on the TV. They are not available. I have to put the match on my laptop and connect it to the smart tv to be able to watch it. Is there a workaround? Any advice?

    The RTE player app on the tv doesnt have the same available programs as the Rte player site. What is the point of having it on the tv then?



  • #43
    BobbyMalone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭BobbyMalone


    Does anybody think it's odd that the first season of Kin has been taken off the Player? I asked and they said it's a rights issue - I thought RTE part funded this show?



  • #44
    radiospan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭radiospan


    If you missed the end of a program, say 1hour 30min long, and you want to catch it on the RTE Player, you have to watch four 30 second ads just to get the seekbar up so that you can jump to the end.

    Then when you finally get the seekbar up after the start of the show starts playing, and you click to skip to the last few mins of the show, it makes you watch all the ads you would have seen if you watched the entire thing, so that's another SIX 30 second ads that you can't skip.

    That's 5+ minutes of ads you have to watch just to see the last bit of a program. And you'll be lucky if it actually plays by the time you've finished waiting.



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