My god that's afew things to check.

Take them one by one in order from the closest to the wall if that makes sense!

Router, Anti-Virus (erm this a firewall aswell?) and the XP firewall (not that this should be an issue)

Then again every pc is different so post up specific questions without giving away your IP please!

Start a DOS Shell. Then type these commands.
netstat -na > netstat.txt
notepad netstat.txt

Then search for the string 11033

Or

telnet www.some.where 11033

(Disclaimer: I expect there may be a way to filter the netstat -na output to avoid the .txt file, but my DOS is rusty and I don't do Windoze at home).

M$ were pressured into uptake of DRM constraints on Vista, hence no one in their right mind chooses to buy it (except me who is dumb!)

Iplayer is the BBC protecting it's content aparantly.

Trouble is you are paying companies and encouraging them to add this resource hungry junk, someone estimated 10% cpu load with DRM in vista to play high def content that's without anythings else going on just the DRM junk.

Plenty around on the web to research this stuff!

Old school

I'd never really thought of M$ as being "pressured" into putting DRM in. I have long been of the opinion they were only too happy to stiff customers if it meant the entertainment industry would adopt their audio and video standards.

But it might explain the apparent willingness of M$ to severly brain damage Vista with that cr*p. Maybe Hanlon's Razor applies: "Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by stupidity".

Indeed: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut...ista_cost.html

Cheers!

Funny I was actually thinking about this document haha!

I think they quite fancied the idea of DRM though, as they've long wanted to get into the entertainment side of things.

Oh, in case it saves folks from wasting their time, Windows XP or Vista are required. iPlayer won't work with older versions of Windows, or non-Windows operating systems.

I'd forgotten about that one. Thanks for the reminder.

You can listen to live football commentary via the iplayer too. Nice. Well, better keep paying my tv licence.

I would like to watch live streamed open golf today- is anyone doing likewise and recommend me a site please?

i cant get bbc or the cbs ones to work???

thanks

I have tried but it will not open - not available in your area, I think they use some kind of filter to stop foreign access due to licensing. They are working on a BBC World Service iplayer which we would have access to but not sure of the content.

I knew the bbc one wouldnt work but just wondering if there were any more dodgy websites out there that may show it..

Not sure but now at home with Sky, weather looks just like Zurich today - testing for golf.

the bbc seem to have good coverage of it - 10 hrs a day (i think) followed by a highlights problem! good stuff

If you follow the exact directions with a working proxy, as explained, then you will find that this works with Vista and XP. (but not the streaming, as the proxy will most likely be much too slow).

Works fine on Channel4 catch up www.channel4.tv/catchup

Looks like the BBC are cracking down on uk open proxies, havent had access to the iplayer for a week or so.

Got the iplayer back using a UK proxy, future Iplayer developments:-

http://blog.wotsat.com/page/whatsat?...ts_for_iplayer

Thanks.

Will be interesting if the FreeSat Box will work on iPlayer located here.

Heard a friend can use the Sky download service here without any issues.

Or you can actually use something like vpntunnel.co.uk. This gives you a full and valid UK IP address (no dodgy proxy servers needed)

It works pretty good, you get a bandwidth limit (or 50 gig so - loads of tv streaming) and this for £10 / month

I use it mainly for streaming while working on my computer. It works for iPlayer, ITV Player, C4 Catchup and basically everything that works in the UK.
(including Radio streaming like Radio 5 live)

Even Zattoo detects you to be in the UK now, which gives you the uk selection.

The set-up is easy - their website lead you through each step needed.

Now that is interesting. I'm using Freesat at the moment, but had assumed the iPlayer functionality simply wouldn't work here when it comes out. The BBC have always seemed pretty quick at closing these kind of holes in the past, but fingers crossed this time...