RTE Player

greenspurs

Trying to watch Love/Hate again on the player .
Between the continous ads, and the screen freezing and crashing, its not worth the bother !!

Ok, I understand the ads, but surely they can sort out the glitches that crash the connection ……

Tried playing something on the LG version.

Absymal. I hate to think how much money they p1ssed away on this.

fergiesfolly

I watched a programme last night. It started by showing the end of the previous programme and had an unaccountable break( not adds) in the middle.
It's like someone in RTE recorded the show on a vhs tape and used it for the Player content.
It looks like a cheap pirate radio type set up rather than the state broadcaster. Pathetic

blade1

teach nua wrote: »

Just got an email from rte player customer service to say that 'the technical department' have confirmed that rte player currently does not work on any android boxes. I'm using a mecool box with android 7. Prime and other streaming apps work fine but when I go to install rte player it's says that it is not compatible with my device.

This really is some 'service'. Has anyone else heard of this?

Have u tried sideloading it by saving it to Google drive on your phone.
Then use es file explorer to install it on your Android box.

r93kaey5p2izun

I've never had a problem with it - looks I've just been lucky! Watching Love/Hate for the first time on it at the moment - watched 8 episodes over the past 3 days and no glitches. The ads are a pain though.

LineOfBeauty

I perversely like how utterly useless it is, that it's the state broadcaster's online player only makes the whole thing even more farcical.

Potential-Monke

sugarman wrote: »

...and how much more they'll piss away on it again

RTE to revamp Player just one year after last upgrade

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/rte-to-revamp-player-just-one-year-after-last-upgrade-38806561.html

I love how it's being upgraded, when in reality it should be constantly updated. to me, it reads like they did this a year ago and said feck it, it'll be grand!

Wouldn't care if it became the most stable app out there, I won't be getting it again.

Ol' Donie

All I want to do is watching a couple of f***ing Frasier episodes to the end. Is that too much to ask?

passatman86

Anyone having trouble with the real player on their TV app. I can see new programs but when I try watch them it says stream not working. I deleted and re installed the app with no joy

Tchaikovsky

passatman86 wrote: »

Anyone having trouble with the real player on their TV app. I can see new programs but when I try watch them it says stream not working. I deleted and re installed the app with no joy

I think you'll need to set up an account online to log in; I was getting that message and after I did that, the programmes played and the ads disappeared (!!)

passatman86

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

I think you'll need to set up an account online to log in; I was getting that message and after I did that, the programmes played and the ads disappeared (!!)

Thanks for the reply
Got sorted with help from the Internet supplier

Justin Credible Darts

ever notice how the adverts never stutter or freeze, just the programmes.
The adverts always appear a higher definition too.

A joke of a system

tjhook

I haven't used the RTE Player at all really. I tried it a year or two ago, it didn't work, and I just use the Virgin Media online app now instead. That just works.

I wouldn't think RTE are prioritising the ads over the programmes. I would guess that the ads are served from a different (i.e. professional) organisation that serves ad content to many media broadcasters. Whereas the programme content is served by RTE themselves (or at least form a service they control).

It's possible that the technical staff in RTE are incompetent, but I think it's more likely that RTE haven't been willing to fund the online infrastructure to the extent it requires. If anything, it's probably deeply frustrating to the technical staff.

I'm not sure any of this paints RTE in a better light, but it's how it looks to me.

coffeepls

I stream the RTE player to the TV via Chromecast. No ads.

10000maniacs

They should follow the Virgin Media model. You can back track on most Virgin Media 1/2/3 & Sport programmes on the Virgin STB.

Covidhaveago

Zombie thread i know. I never use RTÉ player as its rubbish but decided to try it again for the Euros, can confirm it's still a POS.

Justin Credible Darts

notice how the adverts always work though ?

if they put as much effort in to the programmes as the adverts it might be worth watching

fergiesfolly

I'm not one to give RTE credit for anything and God knows they fück a lot of things up but I've watching a few of the Euros games on the Player and it's working fine.
Two ads and straight to the game. Just checked it now and it's 30 seconds behind the tv coverage.
And I'm not giving them any credit now either, because that's the bare minimum that should be expected from their service

Ol' Donie

Covidhaveago wrote: »

Zombie thread i know. I never use RTÉ player as its rubbish but decided to try it again for the Euros, can confirm it's still a POS.

In an emergency I tried to watch the Scotland game on my phone earlier. Got it working and it was absolutely perfect. Couldn't believe it.

Had to turn it off for 2 mins, couldn't get it to work again.

riclad

i find it does,nt work on all browsers,
eg it shows ads, it repeats ads ,when ad is over it shows a blank screen.
i use brave browser or chrome.
it works fine on my phone.
i thinks its drm, eg the ads ALWAYS work.
i dont care if a few seconds behind.
the browser needs to be up to date.
every player has to have some form of drm, thats part of the contract in order to buy uk, usa tv programs.
youtube converts all videos in various different video formats,avi, mp4 etc,
at different resolutions,720,1080 etc
so youtube will work on just about any device even old phones and pcs.
i just tried it now ,it played 4 ads, then, program ,works fine.using pc ,windows 10 .
it works fine on my phone, android, 12 months old.
my theory is it wont work is the browser is out of date.
download brave browser or update chrome ,
menu,.settings, Update.

bodhrandude

Tried to watch Back to Barrytown a while back on the iplayer but it kept buffering every four seconds on the laptop. It played better on the phone, but I couldn't continue episode 2 after second set of ads, it kept going back to the start up of the programme after the first set of ads, this is ads within the broadcast, the normal break and not pre ads that you get before accessing the programme. Last year on my sister's Apple laptop it kept doing the same thing for The Mafia only kills in summer, after commercial break it would either loop back to the starting of the programme or if you were halfway through and going through the second commercial break it would loop back to after the first broadcast break. Seriously it would drive you up the wall, I've ended up watching the Reeling in the Years on Youtube rather than the player.

00sully

It's been constantly causing huge CPU spike for me on chrome and Windows 10. Had to restart my machine twice lagged the hell out of everything on a pretty beefy machine. I don't reboot readily even killing chrome didn't fix it which was admittedly weird

ablelocks

i got a new samsung "smart" monitor that has a built in rte player app but it doesn't do live programmes now? I thought you could watch live programmes in the rte player?

the_pen_turner

Why do advertisers keep paying to be on the rte player. Its unwatchable . Yes the adda pay perfectly but who comes back to watch again.
Every time I have used it I have left disgusted at how terrible it is. Its years since I watched it

AllForIt

the_pen_turner wrote: »

Why do advertisers keep paying to be on the rte player. Its unwatchable . Yes the adda pay perfectly but who comes back to watch again.
Every time I have used it I have left disgusted at how terrible it is. Its years since I watched it

Advertisiers wouldn't pay anything untill it has been recorded that their add has been watched. That's how advertising generally works on the internet.

riclad

AllForIt wrote: »

Advertisiers wouldn't pay anything untill it has been recorded that their add has been watched. That's how advertising generally works on the internet.

Make sure your browser is up to date, or download brave browser, I can use i player on my phone or windows 10 pc,
Fine. Works every time I use it. It won't work on old browsers
It's probably to do with DRM

SEPT 23 1989

I watched Ireland V Andorra the other evening on the work PC and it didn't miss a beat

Diceicle

I have the RTE player app on my smart tv - the only thing it can play is the ads before it delivers an error message.

the_pen_turner

AllForIt wrote: »

Advertisiers wouldn't pay anything untill it has been recorded that their add has been watched. That's how advertising generally works on the internet.

thats even crazier . who watchs them

lertsnim

Covidhaveago wrote: »

Zombie thread i know. I never use RTÉ player as its rubbish but decided to try it again for the Euros, can confirm it's still a POS.

I watched the Scotland game on it yesterday on my phone with no issues.

AllGunsBlazing

I'd beat it with a stick if I could.

Spanish Eyes

Who watches RTE anyway live or on the player. Losers.....

nomdeboardie

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Who watches RTE anyway live or on the player. Losers.....

Who takes time to comment in threads about issues they find irrelevant?

Oh wait... :pac:

bodhrandude

everyone remember AerTV I use to use this all the time as it worked better than the iplayer, but then it went into subscription only like Filmon.

Ol' Donie

Jesus Christ. How many times have I seen that stupid bookies as with all the stupid drummers.

And all I want to do is watch a few match highlights.

riclad

Here's the problem with smart tvs, there's no way to update the TV apps,
It either works or it doesn't,
I hear many apps work on apple devices,
But then they stop working when there's an ios update,.
An there seems to be an apple update at least once a year
My advice is download a new browser,
Firefox, brave and you can be sure the browser is up to date
So the player should work OK
I tried a live tv match works fine for me.
I watched a 60 minute documentary
Worked fine

ILoveYourVibes

Adverts that are like 6 mins long.

It NEVER works ...

Glitchy as ever.

No thanks.

riclad

I, d like a tech expert to give his opinion on the Iplayer
Those people complaining need to download a new browser and try it
On out of date browsers it works in than it shows the ads but it won't play the video content
I Watched a 1 hour program
I think there were 3 ad breaks each 2 minutes long
That seems OK to me if you don't like ads watch bbc programs

bodhrandude

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Adverts that are like 6 mins long.

It NEVER works ...

Glitchy as ever.

No thanks.

Yeah hate the opening ads but what is worst is a buffering ad that takes ages.