Silverlight crashes Eurosport Player

[PpPete]

Just re-subscribed to ES Player so as to keep with the year's pro-cycling action.
Works fine until I try to go full-screen .. then I get a Silverlight dialog box saying do I want to keep in full screen if the window loses focus? But the dialog is "dead" - none of the options respond to clicks and after 30 seconds or so the ES window comes back saying SIlverlight has crashed and I need to log in again.

Frustrating when in something like the Tour of Qatar it's only worth watching in full screen for the last few minutes.

Any solutions anyone ?

 

[ianrauk]

I hate Silverlight.
I uninstalled it and just use the normal windows media player

 

[ColinJ]

Just re-subscribed to ES Player so as to keep with the year's pro-cycling action.
Works fine until I try to go full-screen .. then I get a Silverlight dialog box saying do I want to keep in full screen if the window loses focus? But the dialog is "dead" - none of the options respond to clicks and after 30 seconds or so the ES window comes back saying SIlverlight has crashed and I need to log in again.

Frustrating when in something like the Tour of Qatar it's only worth watching in full screen for the last few minutes.

Any solutions anyone ?

I had the same problem yesterday!

I also had a problem with logging in to Eurosport Player which only went away when I closed my browser and rebooted my PC.

I hate Silverlight.
I uninstalled it and just use the normal windows media player

What, for Eurosport Player - is that possible? (Goes off to try it ...)

 

[the_mikey]

Silverlight is dreadful, and it doesn't work with ubuntu.

 

[ianrauk]

What, for Eurosport Player - is that possible? (Goes off to try it ...)

ooh I dunno about Europsport Colin.
I used it for other stuff and hated it...

 

[ColinJ]

I hate Silverlight.
I uninstalled it and just use the normal windows media player

What, for Eurosport Player - is that possible? (Goes off to try it ...)

Apparently it isn't. Well, I suppose some brilliant hacker somewhere might work out a way of doing it, but it is would be illegal to break the DRM which is what you'd have to do. (Even if you have a paid subscription, and that shows one of the problems with the DRM thing, doesn't it - the software supplied has bugs, but you can't use better software to view the content that you've paid to watch.)

 

[ianrauk]

Apparently it isn't. Well, I suppose some brilliant hacker somewhere might work out a way of doing it, but it is would be illegal to break the DRM which is what you'd have to do. (Even if you have a paid subscription, and that shows one of the problems with the DRM thing, doesn't it - the software supplied has bugs, but you can't use better software to view the content that you've paid to watch.)

That's a friggin' pain.

 

[ColinJ]

Having complained about the Eurosport Player, it was working fine last night and the picture quality was pretty good. Not as good as I would like it, but perfectly acceptable for watching racing. The thing is - if they would only raise the maximum streaming speed from 1.8 Mb/s, then it could look fantastic ...

 

[Garz]

Hmm keep badgering them Colin, in the meantime someone might post a hack around.