Viewing bbc via website? (1 Viewer)

[ellexesse]

I am new to all this and trying to work out how I could view the bbc iplayer over the internet site in MP. Does anyone do this and if so how?!

Also would like to watch tvcatchup as I am not in the UK myself.

Elle

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

IPlayer is not accessible from outside the UK, by any means that i have heard of, in fact there are lots of complaints that UK citizens with various isp's cannot access iplayer, so it looks like they are being very strict on this.

 

[ellexesse]

ah but what if you know a way to get to it...

I can and therefore am wondering the best way to view it through MP

 

[globaldonkey]

Somebody would need to write a plugin for it aka OnlineVideos. As PD said - probably not much interest due to the filtering done on it. We have something similar with the ABC in Australia called iView.

 

[revs]

I simply have firefox launch from MP, and set iPlayer as the home page. I then can easily select a show and play full screen.

 

[ellexesse]

Sorry to be so ignorant but what do you use to launch firefox? I am searching for a plugin but not sure which one to use. Tried to download My programs but not too sure how to install it.

 

[boozelclark]

i use this
MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - MultiShortcut
with opera in kiosk mode and increase the size of the toolbar in the settings.

 

[revs]

I also use multi shortcut - but this looks interesting: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugins-47/web-browser-solution-firefox-integrator-48903/

 

[ellexesse]

Tried to get the Multishortcut to work...hmmm. Im having problems! Does it launch firefox within MP or externally? When I try to launch it, it says "Could not start program".

Also tried the integrator which opened up a new tab in my firefox session already running on my second monitor. Anyone know a way around this to make firefox open in the same monitor as MP?

Sorry for all the qus.

 

[revs]

It will open externally, there are no integrated solutions currently.