Channels on MBC

[Macburp 112]

I'm not a big user of channels on MBC or other clients, as there is not yet much content that interests me. However today I happened to tune in to the ITV channel and saw a couple of things that are not right -

 

- Still can't do ff/rw. Is this fixable for MBC? If not, it makes MBC pretty useless for channels, which will upset me greatly when the BBC iPlayer channel is ready for prime time

- programmes don't play to the end - the show will stop for no reason. The occasional times I've used MBC for watching a channel, the show never gets to the end. As I can't ff/rw, restarting the show is pretty frustrating.

 

MBC log is at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22367822/MBClassic-18112014872ae15f35694f97ac6d892ea96a4588.log . 

 

Any thoughts on a fix?

[ebr 16169]

I just don't think the WMC player can seek those streams.  MPC-HC, however, I think can.

 

As for the items terminating prematurely, I don't think there is anything there we can do.  It may be the stream itself or it may be the old WMC player not working very well with them.  Again, you can try an external (configure one to play .asf) and see if it works any better.

 

Do these same items behave differently in the web client?

[Macburp 112]

I just don't think the WMC player can seek those streams.  MPC-HC, however, I think can.

 

As for the items terminating prematurely, I don't think there is anything there we can do.  It may be the stream itself or it may be the old WMC player not working very well with them.  Again, you can try an external (configure one to play .asf) and see if it works any better.

 

Do these same items behave differently in the web client?

 

As I'm using an extender an external player is not an option for me. Ho hum.

 

I'll have a go in the web client and see how we get on

[ebr 16169]

Ohhhh... The fact you are on an extender is a very important piece of information and likely the root of the issue.  The extender has very limited codec support and probably cannot handle some of these streams properly.  Can you test it out on the host machine and see if it behaves any differently?