Escape to the country

Zelie

sazuburns wrote: »

Help! I want to download that episode, but the BBC site keeps taking me round in circles. I bring up the episode I want, click download, another window appears saying I haven't any programmes to watch and invites me to download programmes, I click that, it opens another window so that I can choose a programme, I choose the episode, click download... and so it goes on.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Sarah

For those having trouble viewing - you don't need to download it! Just click on the video to play.

I was watching it in disbelief earlier. It was hysterically funny and the look on the poor presenter's face as the potential buyers trash-talked each of the houses was priceless.

sazuburns

Zelie wrote: »

For those having trouble viewing - you don't need to download it! Just click on the video to play.

I was watching it in disbelief earlier. It was hysterically funny and the look on the poor presenter's face as the potential buyers trash-talked each of the houses was priceless.

That doesn't work either - I get a message saying "Something went wrong..." [no, you think?!] "...There seems to be a problem playing this video - please try again".

Is it me, or is the site just a bit... crap?

Sarah

PasturesNew

sazuburns wrote: »

That doesn't work either - I get a message saying "Something went wrong..." [no, you think?!] "...There seems to be a problem playing this video - please try again".

Is it me, or is the site just a bit... crap?

Sarah

I don't know... I find a lot of those BBC things don't work for me ever - and they've started using them for everything.

I downloaded iPlayer and used it a couple of months ago, so if it needs that then I've got it, but I just mainly get a circle of dots going round and round forever while it's "loading".

Now I am downloading it to play it on iPlayer. And it's taking over 2 hours to download a 45 minute programme... which I hope will work at the end of it.

I don't know if it's them, or if I don't have enough contiguous hard disk space on my PC.... I'd like to force it all to save to/play from a different drive to C: (which has too little space), but I never get round to looking into whether I can change its default. I suspect the streaming might be using the C: for temporary storage and so I can see that might be the problem with streaming... contiguous space shortage. But never looked into it.

neverdespairgirl

waggys wrote: »

Imagine what the family would have made of a Grade 1 listed property!

Imagine what the Listed Buildings Officer would have made of them!

waggys

Imagine living next door to them!!!!!!!

PasturesNew

Hoo-bl00dy-rah. It's downloaded. Now to see if iPlayer will yield its joys to me.

Zelie

I've also been having problems with the iPlayer this evening so it seems to be a problem at their end. Try it again tomorrow perhaps. Usually it works fine although if your broady is a bit slow then the video will occasionally stutter.

PasturesNew, I found the video links on the bbc news site never worked with firefox but always do with IE (though weirdly, iPlayer is fine on firefox). If you consistently find problems then maybe try switching to another browser?

ajk_2

waggys wrote: »

Imagine living next door to them!!!!!!!

yes, i would be enjoying myself at their party rather than sitting at the pc
:beer:

trudiha

It's just taken me about two hours to watch this, I agree with everything that's been said about iPlayer.

I thought that they were both wonderful and funny and totally without pretension; I'd love to go to a party at their house. I also really like it that she knew what she wanted and wasn't in the least intimidated by either the houses or the sneering presenter.

PasturesNew

Well... what a bunch of old !!!!!!! How come they never mentioned that they need room to store the fairground rides over winter?

And that boy, it was said he was never denied anything: including all the pies he can eat!

They never said how they make their money though.

They would be the Neighbours from Hell for me.

There's no way I'd have shown them the Grade II listed house, any fool could see that they'd never understand that you can't knock it into Butlins at Ibiza.

I've picked them a great house in their existing area. And it's quite cheap, leaving them lots of lolly left over to buy tasteless tat with. Here's something ideal, without them moving too far: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-15565361.rsp?pa_n=8&tr_t=buy

The presenter seemed to forget they originally asked for about an acre, so the nasty boy could be an irritw4t with his buggy.