On 21-Dec-08 23:07:47, Tim Green wrote:
2008/12/21 Albert Vilella avilella@gmail.com:
Word of caution, the player will complain that you have reached the download limit very soon, unless you go to Settings and define a bigger "Hard disk space allocated".
Mine started at 0GB!
I haven't found any glitches or problems so far, apart from the fact that one cannot download stuff that is older than a given date. I wanted to get the full collection of "Stephen Fry in America" but I can only download the latest one.
That'll be because they usually only allow downloads for 7 days after original broadcast. The DRM then restricts you to watching it within 30 days, and only for 24 hours after you start watching it. This is to discourage viewers from hoarding shows.
Hmmm ... I wonder how they work round the possibility that you might clone copies into other directories, and then you could watch one copy, then another one more than 24 hours later, and then ... ?
Not to mention falsifying your system clock if you wanted to watch it more than 30 days later.
Or, maybe, do you have to be on-line to watch, so that the download can "call home" and check on what may have been happening to itself?
The interesting news from the BBC blog is that they are moving away from P2P to direct downloads because the cost to the BBC of bandwidth has fallen. They also cite the cost of P2P uploads to users.
Now that is interesting.
One question: I've yet to install the Download Manager on Linux, because the distributions the BBC says it's for are not what I am using (I'm on Debian Etch, not Ubuntu or Fedora or Suse).
Have people had sucess on other distributions, specifically plain Debian?
Ted.
Tim.
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