New BT Sport channels

[timgood]

BT Broadband customers in the UK get free access to 3 sport channels but I can't watch them using Ubuntu . I have installed the Moonlight plugins for both Chrome and Firefox, but video will not start. On Firefox I get a blank vid screen, on Chrome I get a jumbled one, but no sound or picture. Any suggestions as to why this may be? Service works fine on Android phone and tablet.

[peter d]

Moonlight only works in Windows. There used to be a Linux version created by the Mono project but it never worked very well and hasn't been worked on for ages now. I think you're est sticking with Android.

[coldraven]

If its the same system as Channel 4OD then you might need to install hal

sudo apt-get install hal

Not being a sport fan the fact that BT wasted millions on football and will no doubt put up the prices for phone calls means that I'm leaving BT.

[timgood]

Silverlight is the Windows version, Moonlight was the Linux alternative but is no longer developed. HAL doesn't work either. Looks like it's Wine. Bloody hate Wine.

[hal8000b]

AFAIK the BT sport channels are only available streamed on BT Vision, or via a BT Sky sports card for those customers already with a Sky TV system.
If you know otherwise please can you provide the link.

[Cheesemill]

AFAIK the BT sport channels are only available streamed on BT Vision, or via a BT Sky sports card for those customers already with a Sky TV system.
If you know otherwise please can you provide the link.

Look at this page...

http://www.bt.com/sport/?s_intcid=co..._home_football

There are 3 options...

Sky, BT Vision or Online. I'm guessing it will be tricky to get working because of the SilverLight DRM they are using (look how long its taken to get a Netflix/Wine hack going).

I've just signed up myself (free as I'm already with BT Broadband) so I'll take a look and see if I can get anywhere with it.

[timgood]

There is an Android app that works very well. How difficult would it be to adapt that to work in Ubuntu? After all, Android is Linux.

[JonPaul]

See solution under thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...2#post12772372