Sky Player?

bloodline76 · 31 Jul 2009 at 10:51

How does this sky player work? Could I use it to watch the football at work or does it require steaming software on the computer?

How many computers can you watch it on? Say could I watch it around the inlaws if I went around there?

BlizzardX · 31 Jul 2009 at 10:52

It requires installation of some low level drivers that require admin access and also a slight client install.

But you can install it on up to 4 PCs now.

neil_g · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:05

if youre tying it to a viewing card to get the payview channels its 1 PC only, it installs something on your machine when you register.

edit- i stand corrected.. looks like its 4 computers now as above

BlizzardX · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:07

neil_g said:
if youre tying it to a viewing card to get the payview channels its 1 PC only, it installs something on your machine when you register.

It used to be like that, but I've just reinstalled and it now says I can register it on 4 PCs, and you can also now change the name of the registered PC without phoning Sky up.

neil_g · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:17

coooool...

BlizzardX · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:24

They might be doing this in preparation for the Xbox 360 Sky Player software that is part of one of the new updates.

neil_g · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:26

has anyone integrated sucessfully with media center?

BlizzardX · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:35

I didn't think it could? Thought it was standalone...

neil_g · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:36

theres an addon for iplayer which is similar?

Greenlizard0 · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:53

I was asking this in the cricket thread; how does this work exactly?

My parents have a multiroom subscription so as far as I know I'm elgible to stream over what channels they have paid for to get through their tvs. They will never stream it over.

Can I register this and take it with me back home? (<-)

BlizzardX · 31 Jul 2009 at 11:55

I believe so yes. As long as your parents have registered their sky account online, you can log in download the software and then install and it should be fine.

Matteysan · 31 Jul 2009 at 14:56

You don't even need to download the client, they have it running through the website. If you have a sky account sign in with that & all should be set

Greenlizard0 · 31 Jul 2009 at 19:56

Oh really - do I just need e.g. an account name and number?

Greebo · 31 Jul 2009 at 21:55

This is great. Sky at work and on my laptop

Red Porsche · 31 Jul 2009 at 22:43

It only works in IE for me :S not firefox. But its better than the standalone program.

Matteysan · 31 Jul 2009 at 23:23

Greenlizard0 said:
Oh really - do I just need e.g. an account name and number?

Yeah you'll need your account name & number from your viewing card on sign up

I have a problem with the LiveTV Guide not working on Chrome, but apart from that it works fine.

To show what it looks like

Greenlizard0 · 31 Jul 2009 at 23:34

It causes Opera to crash unrecoverably. It'll only work in IE for me.

It's quite odd, in Opera Silverlight kicked in (?), and in IE Flash kicked in. Hmm..

Matteysan · 31 Jul 2009 at 23:42

Greenlizard0 said:
It causes Opera to crash unrecoverably. It'll only work in IE for me.

It's quite odd, in Opera Silverlight kicked in (?), and in IE Flash kicked in. Hmm..

Odd on Chrome it uses Silverlight for me, Do you have the newest update for Silverlight?