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On 08/08/13 18:18, Neil wrote: > Thanks. This morning when I tested it out it was very slow, like 5 > mins to download 1%. There must have been something going on > somewhere. Anyway I have just tried again and it all downloaded very > quickly. I can now watch it on my laptop via my HD. Now I have to > figure out how to get it to play on our TV set. > > Yes, the laptop does have an HDMI out port and the TV does accept HDMI > input. First I have to get a cable. All part of the learning process!! > > Neil > Do you have a smart TV? You might be able to use a tool like UMS (another gent was trying to get it working on this list a couple of days ago) or another media streaming server to recognise your TV as a targettable renderer and just fling your content around your devices over the network. Plugging in a HDMI cable is definitely a lot easier, to be fair. And yes, iPlayer is very capricious - just like the iPlayer webservice, get_iplayer is entirely dependent on other factors such as network congestion, etc. I used to use it all the time, but as the months have gone by I generally find it just as easy to go to the BBC site and watch in firefox. get_iplayer is most useful if you want to archive something. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq