*squints*

[shermarama]

I've been spoilt by the iplayer, which just works. For about the last hour I've been trying to get 4OD to work. It still doesn't, going on about DRM problems. At about the same time I swore loudly at it and started the uninstalling process, Chris started downloading The IT Crowd from an, ahem, alternative source. At the start of this post the download was on about 10%. In the time it's taken me to write this, it's now on 14%. If he'd started to download it at the same time as I'd started the installation process, we'd be watching now.

17%.

Comments

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

4OD and iplayer both refuse to work on my computer. I can, however, stream the Channel 4 stuff using their catch-up service. Maybe that will work for you? Although it doesn't work on Macs, if that's what you've got.

[shermarama]

I have a windows XP computer with supposedly all the requirements that 4OD wants, and I even let it install its DRM thingy, but it still didn't work. What is the catch-up service? And why do they have two entire different systems for watching stuff online? Oh, hang on, because one of them's bollocks...

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

4OD downloads them and catch-up just streams them. As to the rest of it, I have no idea!

[shermarama]

4OD seemed to be the only thing I could find for streaming on the channel 4 website, it allegedly does both, though in this case it does neither. Oh well, it was downloaded by five minutes after my last post.

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

well it's on the channel4.com front page and you have to install a plug-in if you use firefox, but you just click and go, basically. It's ace.

[tackline.livejournal.com]

I installed 4oD on Saturday to watch the IT Crowd is fuzzovision. Had to use IE, unblock some cookies, use regsvr32.exe from an adminstrator console, and after I finished use regsvr32.exe/u in case I had opened up any security holes. Why can't they use Flash/JavaFX?

[shermarama]

It's probably appropriate that it's geeks trying to watch The IT Crowd having trouble with this.

[tackline.livejournal.com]

Are you calling me a geek?

[shermarama]

Well, maybe you were just watching The IT Crowd for the football discussion.

[tackline.livejournal.com]

Erm...

I don't want to be a real man.