[opensuse] BT Sport on openSUSE
As a BT subscriber I have activated the BTSport app. Not entirely to my surprise when I just tried to watch the first live game using Firefox it told me it won't run without Silverlight. So a question : can I get Silverlight to run on openSUSE (using 12.3 64 bit) ? Will Moonlight do this, and if so can I get it to run on Firefox or Chrome ? I have not done any research on this yet as I am shortly going out to a live football match. I thought I'd just try it to see if it works. FWIW I have it running on a W7 box at the moment and its no great shakes on there having dropped out a couple of times already, and this running BT Infinity on a well maintained quite high spec box. It is my son's gaming box and is no slouch. Any thoughts about the central issue ie can I do it with Moonlight or something else on openSUSE ? I know I could run it on Windows in a vm or get the BT tv box but I'm not that bothered to do either of those things. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 17/08/13 13:03, michael norman wrote:
As a BT subscriber I have activated the BTSport app.
Not entirely to my surprise when I just tried to watch the first live game using Firefox it told me it won't run without Silverlight.
So a question : can I get Silverlight to run on openSUSE (using 12.3 64 bit) ?
Will Moonlight do this, and if so can I get it to run on Firefox or Chrome ?
A friend of mine tried Moonlight for watching F1 on the Sky streaming service - it's a non starter for that due to the subscription based DRM, so far as he can establish, and I can't see that BTSport would be any different.
I have not done any research on this yet as I am shortly going out to a live football match. I thought I'd just try it to see if it works.
FWIW I have it running on a W7 box at the moment and its no great shakes on there having dropped out a couple of times already, and this running BT Infinity on a well maintained quite high spec box. It is my son's gaming box and is no slouch.
I wouldn't be surprised if the server side wasn't up to the load.
Any thoughts about the central issue ie can I do it with Moonlight or something else on openSUSE ?
I know I could run it on Windows in a vm or get the BT tv box but I'm not that bothered to do either of those things.
One of these is likely the only option, unless you can convince BTSport to stream Flash or (preferably) HTML5 video. Dylan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 17/08/13 13:28, Dylan wrote:
On 17/08/13 13:03, michael norman wrote:
As a BT subscriber I have activated the BTSport app.
Not entirely to my surprise when I just tried to watch the first live game using Firefox it told me it won't run without Silverlight.
So a question : can I get Silverlight to run on openSUSE (using 12.3 64 bit) ?
Will Moonlight do this, and if so can I get it to run on Firefox or Chrome ?
A friend of mine tried Moonlight for watching F1 on the Sky streaming service - it's a non starter for that due to the subscription based DRM, so far as he can establish, and I can't see that BTSport would be any different.
No I don't think it will be.
I have not done any research on this yet as I am shortly going out to a live football match. I thought I'd just try it to see if it works.
FWIW I have it running on a W7 box at the moment and its no great shakes on there having dropped out a couple of times already, and this running BT Infinity on a well maintained quite high spec box. It is my son's gaming box and is no slouch.
I wouldn't be surprised if the server side wasn't up to the load.
The half hour or so I just watched confirms that, I couldn't watch something of that quality (sic) for very long.
Any thoughts about the central issue ie can I do it with Moonlight or something else on openSUSE ?
I know I could run it on Windows in a vm or get the BT tv box but I'm not that bothered to do either of those things.
One of these is likely the only option, unless you can convince BTSport to stream Flash or (preferably) HTML5 video.
I wouldn't give much hope for anybody to convince BTSport to stream it differently. I was just curious really, and not entirely surprised at the outcome, even the fact that on day one its not very good on Windows the way I tried it.
Dylan
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On Saturday, August 17, 2013 01:48:01 PM michael norman wrote:
On 17/08/13 13:28, Dylan wrote:
On 17/08/13 13:03, michael norman wrote:
As a BT subscriber I have activated the BTSport app.
Not entirely to my surprise when I just tried to watch the first live game using Firefox it told me it won't run without Silverlight.
So a question : can I get Silverlight to run on openSUSE (using 12.3 64 bit) ?
Will Moonlight do this, and if so can I get it to run on Firefox or Chrome ?
A friend of mine tried Moonlight for watching F1 on the Sky streaming service - it's a non starter for that due to the subscription based DRM, so far as he can establish, and I can't see that BTSport would be any different.
No I don't think it will be.
I have not done any research on this yet as I am shortly going out to a live football match. I thought I'd just try it to see if it works.
FWIW I have it running on a W7 box at the moment and its no great shakes on there having dropped out a couple of times already, and this running BT Infinity on a well maintained quite high spec box. It is my son's gaming box and is no slouch.
I wouldn't be surprised if the server side wasn't up to the load.
The half hour or so I just watched confirms that, I couldn't watch something of that quality (sic) for very long.
Any thoughts about the central issue ie can I do it with Moonlight or something else on openSUSE ?
I know I could run it on Windows in a vm or get the BT tv box but I'm not that bothered to do either of those things.
One of these is likely the only option, unless you can convince BTSport to stream Flash or (preferably) HTML5 video.
I wouldn't give much hope for anybody to convince BTSport to stream it differently.
I was just curious really, and not entirely surprised at the outcome, even the fact that on day one its not very good on Windows the way I tried it.
Dylan just a comment
I thought i read somewhere Microsoft was dropping support of Silverlight? i use moonlight for looking at county property records and was wonder what will happen if silverlight is dropped? Russ -- openSUSE 12.3(Linux 3.10.7-1.g771dec3-desktop)|KDE 4.11.00|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-325.15) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
FWIW I have it running on a W7 box at the moment and its no great shakes on there having dropped out a couple of times already, and this running BT Infinity on a well maintained quite high spec box. It is my son's gaming box and is no slouch.
I wouldn't be surprised if the server side wasn't up to the load. The half hour or so I just watched confirms that, I couldn't watch something of that quality (sic) for very long. To be fair to BT and put the record straight my son told me later that he has an ongoing problem with streaming video on his box that would most likely have caused the poor quality I got,
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQzODk 2013/8/18 michael norman <michaeltnorman@gmail.com>:
FWIW I have it running on a W7 box at the moment and its no great shakes on there having dropped out a couple of times already, and this running BT Infinity on a well maintained quite high spec box. It is my son's gaming box and is no slouch.
I wouldn't be surprised if the server side wasn't up to the load.
The half hour or so I just watched confirms that, I couldn't watch something of that quality (sic) for very long.
To be fair to BT and put the record straight my son told me later that he has an ongoing problem with streaming video on his box that would most likely have caused the poor quality I got,
Mike
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 08:49:17 -0700 Upscope <upscope@nwi.net> wrote:
I thought i read somewhere Microsoft was dropping support of Silverlight?
This sums up current state of affairs: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/04/netflix-plans-to-ditch-silverlight-for-html...
i use moonlight for looking at county property records and was wonder what will happen if silverlight is dropped?
Moonlight works for Silverlight version 1, not for current (and dropped) version 2. In other words county interface to database is a bit behind anyway. Obviously they hired wrong contractor to create interface. (not that much in a technical sense wrong, as it is just a wrong estimate what will hold water for a longer period). -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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