[mythtv-users] GL problem in Mythfrontend after Firefox/ BBC iPlayer crash

[John Pilkington]

Mike Perkins wrote:
> John Pilkington wrote:
>> John Pilkington wrote:
>>> I've been playing with BBC iPlayer (which has worked) and the BBC 
>>> iPlayer Desktop, which hasn't worked for me although it is installed 
>>> and seems to run.  At present Firefox crashes at the end of the 
>>> iPlayer home page.  The BBC systems use Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR, 
>>> and the content is supposedly available only within the UK.
>>>
>>> Apparently as a result of this, the main Mythfrontend menu is blank 
>>> but the menu choices still work and submenus are visible. 
>>
>> Please excuse the 'reply to self'.
>>
>> Workarounds for the disappearing Myth menus have been covered in this 
>> thread (and others) already, but I have now had a response from the 
>> BBC iPlayer team about the iPlayer Desktop, which is supposed to allow 
>> time-limited programme downloads.
>>
>>> Please be advised that when downloading programmes you'll still be 
>>> required to use Internet Explorer owing to the DRM licences used to 
>>> make the downloads operate.
>>>
>>> However, we are looking at ways of expanding this service to support 
>>> other browsers.
>>> Furthermore, please find below a link to our FAQ page, which provides 
>>> more information on this matter:
>>>
>>> http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_programmes/desktopnotrecognised 
>>>
>>
> Further question - what can iPlayer do that mythtv can't?
> 
That's what I wanted to know: to see what is being 'sold' so 
assiduously.  The most obvious thing is to play programmes, broadcast 
within the past few days, that you omitted to record.  It also hogs 
network bandwidth.

As I said, I have iPlayer itself working under 64-bit FC10 with Firefox. 
  The problem is with the iPlayer Desktop; this offers downloads, some 
in HD, which have to have a mechanism for self-destruction.  Maybe only 
IE has this.. (?).

I have suggested that the browser drm requirement be made more explicit. 
  It wasn't clear that trying to initiate a download would silently 
break parts of my system.

John P.