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[tickmike]

Has anyone got the ITV player to work under Linux ?.
I have tried it with PCLinux and Ubuntu with the 'Moonlight' Firefox  plug-in but cannot get it to work.

[roseway]

I just tried on my Debian Lenny system, and that didn't work either, although when I click on the "Install Silverlight" button I get a page which says "Congratulations, you have Moonlight installed" or something like that. I haven't got time now, but I'll have another look at this later.

[tickmike]

I just tried on my Debian Lenny system, and that didn't work either, although when I click on the "Install Silverlight" button I get a page which says "Congratulations, you have Moonlight installed" or something like that. I haven't got time now, but I'll have another look at this later.

Yes I got that message as well.
I first tried it of the 'Family' computer but it made FF not to open (It would try to load and then crash) so I went into my home folder (show hidden files) and went to the .monzilla folder navigated to the add-on's and deleted the moonlight plug-in and then FF would load.

Going to my test stack I installed the moonlight plug-in on a 'pclinux' and a 'ubuntu' computers with no luck, in FF add on's it says it's install ok but the player does not load.

It would be nice to use the ITV player under Linux , I have used it in the past running a XP virtual computer to use the player with IE7, but this is not ideal.

[tnp]

I get the same problem.

I think this is one we will have to wait for the moonlight developers to fix.

[roseway]

I haven't looked at this recently, but I seem to recall that's something to do with the ITV site requiring Silverlight 2 (Moonlight only equates to version 1). Or something like that.

[tnp]

That's basically it. version 2 silverlight support is in development, but not released.

I tried the latest sources, but they simply said ' not version 2' when compiled.

I did get it all working on linux using VMware and XP/IE7 in a box, but that broke the Linux sound for everything else...

[tnp]

I can report that the latest 1.93 release of Moonight works well enough to see ITV rubbish at ITV rubbish quality, on linux/firefox.

see here

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight-beta/

[roseway]

Thanks for that, I'll have a look at it later.

[roseway]

I've installed the version 2 pre-release (1.99.3) on my Debian Testing system and it works, but tends to crash Firefox.

[geep]

Hi,
For Linux users I highly recommend get_iplayer http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
It gives you both ITV and BBC TV and Radio.

I'm running it on Slackware.
Haven't tried it on Windows.

Cheers,
Peter

[roseway]

I hadn't realised that get_iplayer gives you ITV as well, so thanks for that hint.

[tickmike]

Hi,
For Linux users I highly recommend get_iplayer http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/
It gives you both ITV and BBC TV and Radio.

I'm running it on Slackware.
Haven't tried it on Windows.

Cheers,
Peter

Thanks Peter, I going to look into that. 

[tickmike]

 
I have downloaded the RPM package and installed it with 'KPackage' but get this...

error: Failed dependencies:
   id3v2 is needed by get_iplayer-2.32-1.noarch
   rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 is needed by get_iplayer-2.32-1.noarch

[geep]

Hi Michael,
On my Slackware installation id3v2 support is provided by taglib which is part of the Slackware distribution.
Quote from Slackware:
taglib-1.5-i486-1 in slackware/l
taglib (audio meta-data library)

TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data of several
popular audio formats.  Currently it supports both ID3v1 and id3v2
for MP3 files, Ogg Vorbis comments and ID3 tags and Vorbis comments
in FLAC files.

Taglib website http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html
rpms here for some Linuxes - http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/taglib/

Good luck,
Peter

[geep]

Hi Michael - further information,
I just checked what else I installed to run my installation of get_iplayer.
Compiled all these programs myself - not prebuilt.
(Maybe your PCLinuxOS handles all dependencies automatically, but Slackware doesn't).

1/ Perl comes with Slackware, but I also needed these CPAN http://www.cpan.org/ modules:
HTML-Parser-3.60
HTML-Tagset-3.20
HTML-Tagset-3.20.tar.gz
Test-Pod-1.26
libwww-perl-5.826

I think Test-Pod needs to be installed first, as it's used by one of the other during a "make test".

2/ rtmpdump-v1.6.
This is superceded by flvstreamer, which I didn't install.
(rtmpdump withdrawn from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/ following Adobe complaints).

3/ FFmpeg version r16039 (with yasm-0.7.2 assembler installed first http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/).

4/ I already had MPlayer r29301-4.3.3 installed. Not sure if it's necessary.

Cheers,
Peter