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Who the chuffing **** signed off the ITV Catch-up player? It's possibly the biggest piece of ****ing nightmare garbage software that I've had the intense misfortune to have to swear at.
Basically, last week, my cable box died before I had a chance to watch Demons, and, as usual, I prefer to watch the previous episode before watching the next. Of course, Virgin Cable's catch-up doesn't do ITV, as they elected to go for an incompatible system. I would have watched it on my Eee, but they went for a system based on Microsoft SilverShite, so it won't work with Linux, and the FireFox catch-up plugin didn't seem to be playing. My PC in the study can't cope with providing video and audio at the same time. Fortunately,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cookwitch's Advent is running XP, so was capable of running Silverlight, if the idea of "running" Silverlight is actually plausible.
BBC's iPlayer - works.
ITV's player - blows goats. No really.
I accept that they probably had to come up with some kind of way of enforcing watching the adverts, but maybe one which didn't stall the viewing every couple of minutes to load the next part might have been a good idea? It makes watching almost anything an incredibly frustrating experience, and were I not a bloody-minded swine when it comes to watching what I want to, I'd have given up before the first ad break - and given that some people I know gave up on Demons before the first ad break of the series? Not a great idea. I'd type more, but I'd probably just get more wound up ...
In summary ... ITV, what were you thinking?
Who the chuffing **** signed off the ITV Catch-up player? It's possibly the biggest piece of ****ing nightmare garbage software that I've had the intense misfortune to have to swear at.
Basically, last week, my cable box died before I had a chance to watch Demons, and, as usual, I prefer to watch the previous episode before watching the next. Of course, Virgin Cable's catch-up doesn't do ITV, as they elected to go for an incompatible system. I would have watched it on my Eee, but they went for a system based on Microsoft SilverShite, so it won't work with Linux, and the FireFox catch-up plugin didn't seem to be playing. My PC in the study can't cope with providing video and audio at the same time. Fortunately,
cookwitch's Advent is running XP, so was capable of running Silverlight, if the idea of "running" Silverlight is actually plausible.BBC's iPlayer - works.
ITV's player - blows goats. No really.
I accept that they probably had to come up with some kind of way of enforcing watching the adverts, but maybe one which didn't stall the viewing every couple of minutes to load the next part might have been a good idea? It makes watching almost anything an incredibly frustrating experience, and were I not a bloody-minded swine when it comes to watching what I want to, I'd have given up before the first ad break - and given that some people I know gave up on Demons before the first ad break of the series? Not a great idea. I'd type more, but I'd probably just get more wound up ...
In summary ... ITV, what were you thinking?
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