Has anyone managed to get BT Sport going?

[mfundisi2]

http://sport.bt.com/

Am using Ubuntu 13.04, Firefox 23 with Moonlight 3.99.03. Before installing moonlight it asked to install silverlight which obviously I cannot do. Now it simply does not play - no errors.....

[kostkon]

You could try with Pipelight.

[mfundisi2]

Tried it - in both Chromium and Firefox. Showed the Silverlight test OK but didn't show any video.......

Thanks for the suggestion - did you get it to work?

[slackner2]

Hi,

did you install a user agent switcher? Otherwise most streaming websites will detect that you are using a wrong operating system and refuse to work.
Please take a look at this FAQ: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2351

Unfortunately I cannot test http://sport.bt.com/ myself as this page isn't available for my location.

Sebastian

[mashedbear]

Hey @mfundisi2 have you got bt sport working with pipelight + user agent switching?

[texaswriter]

I guess I figured this would happen sometime. Netflix is the only website I know that actually uses Silverlight (that I use anyways). I had canceled my Netflix subscription long ago due to it not working and re-enabled after the wine fix by ehoover/compholio WINE.

[mfundisi2]

Hey @mfundisi2 have you got bt sport working with pipelight + user agent switching?

Nope - I installed the user agent switch as well as pipelight but BT Sport still shows a black rectangle and no video...

I can watch it on my Nexus 7 fortunately.

[slackner2]

Hi,

someone on our IRC channel (don't know if he's also active in ubuntuforums) got BT Sport working by doing a downgrade to Silverlight version 5.0. (The same trick is also necessary for SkyGo.)

How to do this is described in our FAQ: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2358

This page moreover requires setting windowlessmode to true as described here: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2361
(this will not be necessary anymore when we've released our next update!)

Sebastian

[JonPaul]

Hello Sebastian

Downgrading to Silverlight 5.0 worked (I somehow managed to get two IDs with this new login system!)

Thanks very much for your help.

JonPaul aka Mfundisi2

[wolfie52]

Thank you folks...........I am digesting your comments and taking it all in. I really appreciate the time you have taken to help, and in doing so it helps me with my inexorably slow learn.

But I enjoy.

Geoff