evilawyer: young black-tailed prairie dog at SF Zoo (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] evilawyer at 11:43pm on 20/05/2011
Is there some trick to playing these? Nothing happens when I get to the BBC iPlayer window. (To be fair, I am a techno-Luddite and impatient with gadgets.)
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matgb: Artwork of 19th century upper class anarchist, text: MatGB (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] matgb at 12:21am on 21/05/2011
It's possible they're not available outside the UK for legal/technical reasons, apparently it's possible to proxy around that but I've never needed to find out how.

Or it may be your computer hates you, no idea ;-)
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evilawyer: young black-tailed prairie dog at SF Zoo (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] evilawyer at 01:12am on 21/05/2011
Neither possibility would surprise me one bit.
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posted by [personal profile] brewsternorth at 01:57am on 21/05/2011
The radio iPlayer should be internationally available; I've certainly been able to listen to assorted radio-plays before now on a streaming basis, including some of the previous adventures on The Channel Formerly Known As BBC7. Suspect it's computer difficulties.
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evilawyer: young black-tailed prairie dog at SF Zoo (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] evilawyer at 03:42pm on 21/05/2011
Could also be the wireless connection wasn't up to snuff. Or it could be that technology hates me as much as I hate it. 21st Century. Pah!
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susanreads: my avatar, a white woman with brown hair and glasses (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] susanreads at 03:19pm on 21/05/2011
If you get the iPlayer popup window, does it have a Play button? It should autoplay, at which point it turns into a Pause button, but I often find there's a noticeable delay before it starts. It might depend on the quality of your internet connection or how busy the site is.

If there's text saying "Low bandwidth version", it's actually a link to the low bandwidth version; the default is what they call Normal version, which probably requires broadband. My broadband sometimes goes up and down like a yoyo but without the predictability, and I find the low bandwidth version is less likely to suddenly stop and fail to reconnect.
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evilawyer: young black-tailed prairie dog at SF Zoo (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] evilawyer at 03:39pm on 21/05/2011
I got the popup window, but no Play button as far as I could see. No autoplay, either, and I waited quite a long while. Well, quite a long while for me, at any rate. Still, I think it was enough time for something to happen.

I was indeed on a wireless connection, and I did see the low bandwidth link and clicked on it. Also with the "big nothing". I'll give it another shot when next I've got my laptop at my office so I can hook it into the cable. Desktops for work, laptops for work with occasional fun is my general rule of thumb, and it's avoided all but one crippling computer meltdown.
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