New RTE Player

Elmo · 08-12-2018 5:42pm

portach king wrote: »

There's no doubt that they've made a pigs ear of the launch, but I don't believe that they think the desktop is the core platform. From everything they've said mobile apps are on the imminent horizon, Chromecast/airplay support included. They've also said Apple/Android TV apps are next after that. They know what's up and they're rolling out a beta now, and the choice for desktop was probably chosen as it would be the least stressful on their bandwidth as it gets up and running.

Okay so IMO your bandwidth/capacity is capital, RTÉ have stated all along that they where investing in capital, as already pointed out the software is standard no need to reinvent the wheel and look of the player is superficial.

RTÉ are suppose to be launching a new look player in tandem with their investment into bandwidth/capacity.

Going by BARB figures for BBC/ITV/c4/etc there is little difference between desktop, smart TV/STBs, phones and tablets.

radiospan · 10-12-2018 8:49am

Does anyone have any technical info on the video quality?

The old player seemed to go up to a max of 576p (and 2500k bitrate?). The new player looks like 1080p to me, but can't get any info. It's seems its not possible to capture anything from it with youtube-dl or similar.

lertsnim · 10-12-2018 12:10pm

iOS devices are updated with the new app. Nothing on Android so far.

Edit: On android now too.

Tigerandahalf · 10-12-2018 2:32pm

It is not on android. They have just changed the logo in the play store to red but the app hasn't been updated yet.

Tigerandahalf · 10-12-2018 2:51pm

They have updated the android player info
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NEW RTÉ PLAYER
Your destination for great TV and Video – Live and on-demand
Discover something great to watch every time you use RTÉ Player. Explore Box Sets, RTÉ Player Originals and all your RTÉ TV favourites on the fully reloaded RTÉ Player app for Android

DISCOVER BRAND NEW CONTENT
You asked, and we listened. Browse brand new shows on RTÉ Player including hit US dramas Boss, Graves and Swedish Dicks. Or in the mood for some nostalgia, check out cult classics Dawson’s Creek, Bachelor’s Walk and Raw.

Stuck in commuter traffic, discover our playlists and relive the best bits of your favourite shows. From the 20 greatest moments from Love/Hate to those magical moments where Dermot Bannon turns people’s houses into dream homes in Room to Improve.

RTÉ Player Originals are our brand new shorts, ranging on average from 3-12 minutes, these little gems are perfect for watching on your mobile, on your lunchbreak or before bed.

LIVE STREAMING & LIVE RE-START
Watch RTÉ One, RTÉ2 and RTÉ News Now live wherever and whenever you want
We’ve added RTÉjr live streaming. Your kids can now enjoy fun shows in a safe space
Two new exclusive channels streaming RTÉ Archives and RTÉ Food
Live restart - A great new feature that allows you to rewind back to the goal and rewatch the celebrations.

KIDS MODE
Set parental pins to protect your children from shows aimed at a Mature Audience (MA)

IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE (ISL)
Set your preferences so you can watch shows with in-vision Irish Sign Language (ISL)

AUDIO DESCRIPTION
Set your preferences so you can watch shows with an audio description (AD)

SEARCH
Search for the title you want to watch in our Find Section.

CHROMECAST
The RTÉ Player App supports Chromecast so you can cast to your big screen using your Smart TV.

SOCIAL SHARING
Social sharing features allow you to share programmes. You can browse programmes by name, category, date and latest. You can save programmes as a favourite and pick up on a programme where you last viewed.

The RTÉ Player App uses streaming technology which means that you must be connected to the Internet in order to watch programmes. The app will automatically adjust video quality based on the speed of your WiFi connection.

We hope you enjoy using RTÉ Player.
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portach king · 10-12-2018 3:03pm

Using it to watch the One o'clock news now on my Chromecast and switch between channels. So far, so good. Getting playback controls is a bit finnicky but it's a good start and I hope it continues to improve on what looks like a fresh and seeming successful reboot.

Elmo · 10-12-2018 3:11pm

My only issue is the "live" archive channel, it is just loading videos from the player rather then a continues stream like RTÉ ONE etc. There are certain show worthwhile repeating much of it isn't that good. Why not put RTÉ ONE +1 on the player if you have the archive channel/food channel?

lertsnim · 10-12-2018 3:51pm

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

It is not on android. They have just changed the logo in the play store to red but the app hasn't been updated yet.

I must have imagined it so when I updated and opened the app on my phone earlier.

Looked again and it's still the updated app.

Tigerandahalf · 10-12-2018 4:13pm

lertsnim wrote: »

I must have imagined it so when I updated and opened the app on my phone earlier.

Looked again and it's still the updated app.

What device are you on?
I still don't have it.

lertsnim · 10-12-2018 4:14pm

One Plus 5T

Tigerandahalf · 10-12-2018 4:19pm

My app in the play store says it was last updated in September 18.

The info on the app has been updated but not the app itself. Strange.

Edit; I have it now. I uninstalled the old one first.
Maybe there was just a delay in getting out to all devices.

Tigerandahalf · 10-12-2018 4:34pm

Some great stuff there in the archive.
I see they have a documentary on Christy Ring.

Rte must have a fabulous collection of old documentaries.

A few I see on there...
Christy Ring
When Cathal Shannon met Muhammad Ali
Festival Folk - Christy Moore
This is Christy - singer Christy Dignam
David Bowie - the last 5 years
Joe Dolan
The Late Late Show's 'For one night only'

campo · 10-12-2018 4:41pm

Working well on my Android phone, looking forward to testing this on the Firestick later on

JDxtra · 10-12-2018 4:57pm

Casting option works well. No native Android TV app yet, but not the end of the world

Tigerandahalf · 10-12-2018 5:11pm

There is a lot of TG4 stuff there too.
Not sure if they are co productions or what.

The button at the top left corner allows you to register/sign in. This will allow you to pick up where you stopped watching something previously.

It also has subtitles, Irish sign language and push notification options.

rovers_runner · 10-12-2018 7:04pm

Archives a brilliant addition.
Chromecast working well, quality great considering the times for bon voyage and echo Island.

Dublin Village an unexpected bonus too

JMcGee · 10-12-2018 7:46pm

I can’t get it to Airplay to either of my Apple TV 4K. The tv just blinks briefly and the app eventually crashes after a few failed attempts. Anyone else have luck with AirPlay?

10-12-2018 9:15pm

The Smart Tv app hasn’t updated yet, on my LG!

Arthur Daley · 10-12-2018 9:32pm

Still as buggy as hell

sligojoek · 10-12-2018 9:33pm

Seems to be working fine for me. I've had nothing but frustration with the old one.

Last night I watched a few things from the archives including the Christy Moore gig from 1984 on the laptop. No issues whatsoever. That cough- line of code for ABP -cough seems to have worked a treat. I put the app on the android phone this evening. I did a test run on last night's Fair City. 90 secs of ads at the start and 90 secs halfway through. I can live with that as long as the main show runs smoothly. Which it did. I'll try Chromecast later when I've the TV to myself.

Tigerandahalf · 10-12-2018 9:45pm

Just watched an episode of Bon Voyage from the 90s - it seemed a lifetime ago.

A skiiing holiday in Austria, I can't remember the female presenter with the red curly hair.

Cathal O'Shannon on the Dingle Peninsula

Finally a camping trip to Brittany, France. I don't recognise the male presenter. He seemed to have 5 or 6 kids in tow.

No ads on that programme.
I can see the archives being a real gem.

I'd love to see Murphy's Australia again.

medoc · 11-12-2018 2:11am

Whatever about RTÉ Food, it’s a pity they don’t put RTÉ Archive on Saorview(at least) as a proper channel. I could see it been popular and they could put adverts in between and during the programs like a normal channel. But unfortunately there’s no chance of that happening.

JMcGee · 11-12-2018 8:36am

Remember putting on RTE2 on Christmas morning with Bosco on in the background while you opened and played with your presents? My feeling was like "I love Bosco, but I love opening my presents even more but I'm so happy that I have both at the same time right now!". RTE Player…work your magic for me this year LOL

SteM · 11-12-2018 9:51am

Just checked the new app and it looks great. Also, when you cast from phone to Chromecast it doesn’t show the ads beforehand which is noce. This is the way all4 works to iirc. Happy to see the old show Trivia there too, missed S2 at the time.

Righthammer · 11-12-2018 1:59pm

The app is not working for me ..stops playing near the end of adds .Its not casting either for me..just shows rte player on cast screen but no video appears..not sure why they didnt test this app properly.

Will try another device later but not holding out much hope ..

sligojoek · 11-12-2018 2:10pm

It's not working well with Chromecast at all. It'll play fine but there's no slider to go back or forward. Just seems to be a Play option, that's all.

Arthur Daley · 11-12-2018 2:16pm

The archive series Dubalinn: A personal view seems to be audio only on this for Android anyway

marvin80 · 11-12-2018 2:21pm

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Some great stuff there in the archive.
I see they have a documentary on Christy Ring.

Rte must have a fabulous collection of old documentaries.

A few I see on there...
Christy Ring
When Cathal Shannon met Muhammad Ali
Festival Folk - Christy Moore
This is Christy - singer Christy Dignam
David Bowie - the last 5 years
Joe Dolan
The Late Late Show's 'For one night only'

Speaking of Cathal Shannon - hopefully Thou Shalt Not Kill is in the archive - must have a look later.

Nanoc · 11-12-2018 2:30pm

Anyone get an updated app on Samsung smart TV? One I have hasn't worked in 2 years so hoping a new version just might

Tigerandahalf · 11-12-2018 3:55pm

Arthur Daley wrote: »

The archive series Dubalinn: A personal view seems to be audio only on this for Android anyway

I have had similar issues with the archive on android. The sound only plays.

Keyzer · 11-12-2018 4:33pm

Working great for me on android. Watching an aul bit of nidgey last night for the craic.

RHJ · 11-12-2018 7:08pm

I was never one of RTE's biggest fans, but the new app is excellent and from testing it yesterday. The streams load fast and in high quality. Hopefully, they will continue to improve on the app and soon roll out an app for Android TV.

Cazale · 11-12-2018 8:49pm

I keep getting a notification to send a screenshot for feedback for a hockey app which is coming from the RTE player. I'm on Android.

Tigerandahalf · 11-12-2018 8:55pm

Cazale wrote: »

I keep getting a notification to send a screenshot for feedback for a hockey app which is coming from the RTE player. I'm on Android.

Same here last night.

The Sparrow · 11-12-2018 9:16pm

Cazale wrote: »

I keep getting a notification to send a screenshot for feedback for a hockey app which is coming from the RTE player. I'm on Android.

HockeyApp is a service for distributing beta test apps before you push them to production on the store. It allows developers to collect crash reports and beta testers to submit screenshots.

Bit weird getting notifications for HockeyApp on a production build. :P

lertsnim · 11-12-2018 9:50pm

Was wondering what that was. Thought I might have pressed something unknowingly.

Tigerandahalf · 11-12-2018 10:10pm

Rte player crashing constantly on Liverpool match.

Zhane · 12-12-2018 9:02pm

Anyone having trouble with Airplay to Apple TV? It'll play one add and then nothing.

JMcGee · 12-12-2018 9:26pm

Zhane wrote: »

Anyone having trouble with Airplay to Apple TV? It'll play one add and then nothing.

At least you're getting an ad. I get absolutely nothing. Screen flickers and that's all.

Zhane · 12-12-2018 9:47pm

JMcGee wrote: »

At least you're getting an ad. I get absolutely nothing. Screen flickers and that's all.

Its so annoying. Do you think we are asking too much for an Apple TV app? lol

Strawberry HillBilly · 12-12-2018 11:24pm

Was working great for the last few nights but failing to launch streaming tonight using ipad and chromecast ☹️

JMcGee · 13-12-2018 10:27am

I think people are being too harsh on them. All start-ups hit a few bumps along the road. Give them time. I'm sure it'll all come good…

Pelvis · 13-12-2018 10:37am

JMcGee wrote: »

I think people are being too harsh on them. All start-ups hit a few bumps along the road. Give them time. I'm sure it'll all come good…

Start up?

sligojoek · 13-12-2018 10:42am

As I said, It's way better now on the desktop/laptop and android phone. Credit where it's due. However, the chromecast end of things needs to be sorted. It's very glitchy.

littlecopilot · 13-12-2018 10:54am

Doesn't cast for me from android (note8) to nvidia shield. The background rte player image appears on nvidia alright but that's it. Pity that

RocketRaccoon · 13-12-2018 11:01am

It was working fine the last few nights but no joy with chrome cast last night, no big deal really as I just cast the screen to the tv instead.

clfy39tzve8njq · 13-12-2018 1:46pm

Keyzer wrote: »

Working great for me on android. Watching an aul bit of nidgey last night for the craic.

Is it an android box you're using ? Keeps playing the first ten seconds on a loop of everything for me on an android box. Other times it just decides to play round without a picture :-(

fjon · 14-12-2018 12:32pm

Tried casting from an iPhone to nvidia shield today and it worked flawlessly.

Strawberry HillBilly · 14-12-2018 5:25pm

Strawberry HillBilly wrote: »

Was working great for the last few nights but failing to launch streaming tonight using ipad and chromecast ☹️

Working fine again last night on chromecast. Hopefully app will update soon for LG. So far very impressed with the functionality and love the archive box sets.

clfy39tzve8njq · 14-12-2018 5:57pm

Is it working for anybody on an android box ?

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