Does anyone know how to download programmes from channel 4 and ITV.I have a VPN to the U K

Mickric
By Mickric

I have tried and tried to watch Big Brother online using Channel 4 on demand but the programme freezes as it streams and takes a minute between each streaming session.Can anyone help me?

By snowyowl• 30 Aug 2009 21:27
snowyowl

I am not sure what programmes you want to watch but some may be on sites like www.mininova.com. Set yourself to download the programme then either watch it on the computer or get a hard drive reader that can plug into your tv and watch them then

By anonymous• 30 Aug 2009 19:41
Rating: 4/5
anonymous

That is because of low bandwidth (low throughput actually).It takes time to load the clip into buffer. It has to download (just an example) 1% and then play that 1%, while it is playing that 1%, it has to download the "next 1%". Now if you finish watching your 1% before it finishes downloading the "next 1%", then the video pauses until the "next 1%" is downloaded and the cycle continues.

If you are using your VPN to stream/download - drop it, it just worsens things - large overhead.

The best thing to do would be while streaming, let it start and after a few seconds hit the pause button, and go complete some chores. Get back after about 30 minutes and the whole video clip would have buffered.

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