Just been looking at the bbc’s new iplayer where you can view bbc programmes for up to 7 days after the showing and in some cases download them for 30 days and found 2 of interest. One is a profile of the chieftains and the other is folk hibernia looking at the Irish music revival.
You need to download the iplayer app and I am not sure if viewing outside the uk is possible but I thought it was worth passing on. I actually ended up viewing them online as the download speed was dreadfully slow.
I recorded 'em all on DVD but am clueless as to how that could help anyone except me to see them. The harmonica programme that was on just before was terrific too.
I was just kidding, really. I’m pretty impressed that you burned it in
the first place, what with your “handicap” . But if you made the DVD
yourself, then there’s probably no region set on the disc. The region is
a thing the studios put on the DVDs so they can control where the disc
can play.
I’ve been mucking around with it for the last half-hour, and I’ve discovered that I can’t play DVDs on my computer because, though I have a DVD drive, I haven’t got a thing called a DVD encoder. I could buy one to download for a tenner, apparently, but then I wouldn’t really want it for watching them on the computer, but for copying, which I don’t think the encoder would enable me to do. I recorded the shows on a DVD recorder connected to the telly by the way.
If you are on a Windows system (XP or above) then Windows sets the Region on your DVD player automatically and makes it very difficult for you to change the setting (unless you are very computer savvy and know how to hack it). However, certain Chinese-made DVD players (the real cheap ones) ignore the Region setting, and will play DVDs from just about anywhere. I have sent DVDs to France and they had no problems, and received DVDs from Ireland and had no problems.
So, yes, please rush me my free burned-by-Steve DVD. Enclosed please find two cereal box-tops and a 25-word testimony as to why I love Choco-Sugar-Bombs for breakfast.
I suppose if I had another DVD player I could plug into the DVD recorder next to the telly and copy it in real time. But I haven’t got another DVD player, and I’m buggered if I’m buying one just so that you lot can all have free copies!
I’m not following that at all. You only need an encoder if you are creating
a DVD. For playing a DVD, you need a decoder, and Windows Media Player
should do the job just fine, unless your DVD burner used some weird codec
like DIVX (which you can download free)…
The harmonica programme that was on just before was terrific too.
