iPlayer Panasonic TVs - bother
 

In article ,
Stephen wrote:

During evening hours, I-player will not work on the TV set, I get as far as
"Getting ready to play" and have the rotating white circles on a black
screen.

I don't know why that would be, but if you wanted to try and debug it
you could run squid on one of your PCs and tell the TV to use it a
proxy server. People have done this to reverse engineer Viera Cast.

-- Richard

iPlayer Panasonic TVs - bother
 

On 06/10/2010 14:11, Richard Tobin wrote:
In ,
wrote:

During evening hours, I-player will not work on the TV set, I get as far as
"Getting ready to play" and have the rotating white circles on a black
screen.

I don't know why that would be, but if you wanted to try and debug it
you could run squid on one of your PCs and tell the TV to use it a
proxy server. People have done this to reverse engineer Viera Cast.

-- Richard
I have the same problem, a Panny freesat lcd (I don't use the sat part)
which won't provided the promised i-player. Somewhat miffed. What if
enough of us got together and bombarded Panny with email requests for
the service?

Bob

iPlayer Panasonic TVs - bother
 

In article ,
Noggin wrote:

I have the same problem, a Panny freesat lcd (I don't use the sat part)
which won't provided the promised i-player. Somewhat miffed. What if
enough of us got together and bombarded Panny with email requests for
the service?

They didn't, as far as I know, "promise" iPlayer except on Freesat.
But I have already complained to them. If you complain, I suggest
pointing out competing models that do provide it.

-- Richard

iPlayer Panasonic TVs - bother
 

On Oct 6, 3:58*pm, Noggin wrote:
On 06/10/2010 14:11, Richard Tobin wrote: In ,
*wrote:

During evening hours, I-player will not work on the TV set, I get as far as
"Getting ready to play" and have the rotating white circles on a black
screen.

I don't know why that would be, but if you wanted to try and debug it
you could run squid on one of your PCs and tell the TV to use it a
proxy server. *People have done this to reverse engineer Viera Cast.

-- Richard

I have the same problem, a Panny freesat lcd (I don't use the sat part)
which won't provided the promised i-player. Somewhat miffed. *What if
enough of us got together and bombarded Panny with email requests for
the service?

Bob

Count yourself lucky!! I bought the first series of Panny Freesat HD
TVs (LZD models) expecting iPlayer around CHristmas last year. But
instead of rolling out the right firmware across the oldest models
first, they've developed it for the newer models first so my TV is
getting on for a couple of years old now and STILL can't access
iPlayer!!

Still, its not the end of the world, and I didn't buy the TV because
of iPlayer (IMHO its a darned fine TV anyway!!)

Matt

iPlayer Panasonic TVs - bother
 

Stephen wrote:

During evening hours, I-player will not work on the TV set, I get as far as
"Getting ready to play" and have the rotating white circles on a black
screen.

However, i-player woprks on both the Laptop and on the desktop PC. I have to
wait until around 10.00pm before i-player starts working again on the TV.
All other internet based services such as picasa and youtube all work in
Viera-cast.

What speed is your internet connection ? Run a speed test during these
periods. Mid evening is when the internet is at its most loaded, perhaps your
TV does not signal back to the i-player server that it needs a lower bit rate
supplied, and/or it cannot buffer as well, whereas your PCs are more rate
adaptive ?

Any connection speed lower than 1.5 Mb/s and i-player does start to stutter IME.

--
Mark
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iPlayer Panasonic TVs - bother
 

that is a great thought, I have tested my connection speed and it usually is
6 to 6.5MB/s when tested on www.thinkbroadband.co.uk....

I take your point about network loading though.

Incidentally, the Iplayer on the Panny TV is in "beta" version, how can I
upgrade this to the full release version as the beta version does not
provide subtitles whereas the Iplayer on both the laptop and on the desktop
supports subtitles.

Regards,

Stephen

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Stephen wrote:

During evening hours, I-player will not work on the TV set, I get as far
as "Getting ready to play" and have the rotating white circles on a black
screen.

However, i-player woprks on both the Laptop and on the desktop PC. I have
to wait until around 10.00pm before i-player starts working again on the
TV. All other internet based services such as picasa and youtube all work
in Viera-cast.

What speed is your internet connection ? Run a speed test during these
periods. Mid evening is when the internet is at its most loaded, perhaps
your TV does not signal back to the i-player server that it needs a lower
bit rate supplied, and/or it cannot buffer as well, whereas your PCs are
more rate adaptive ?

Any connection speed lower than 1.5 Mb/s and i-player does start to
stutter IME.

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk