Libe football streaming

[Alister]

Hi
looking to smarterize my dads TV with a PI to enable him to watch his
football on TV rather than his laptop screen.

currently playback of uploaded video interviews to his club site work
well but the streamed content provided by I follow simply will not play.

Any suggestions on what may be required to get this working, or even
simply how to start diagnosing the issue.

currently using a stock raspian install but that is not essential any
other Pi Distro would be acceptable if needed





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[The Natural Philosopher]

On 29/11/2018 13:48, Alister wrote:
> Hi
> looking to smarterize my dads TV with a PI to enable him to watch his
> football on TV rather than his laptop screen.
>

OK...

> currently playback of uploaded video interviews to his club site work
> well

How?

I thought you said they didn't work on his TV?

> but the streamed content provided by I follow simply will not play.

On what? What is "I follow"?
Do you mean "Ifollow"?

No doubt it is one of these 'DRM protected you p[ay and it barely works
on a PC' type of things

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> Any suggestions on what may be required to get this working, or even
> simply how to start diagnosing the issue.
>

A complete description of the bits that work and the bits that don't
with protocols accurately described would be a start...

> currently using a stock raspian install but that is not essential any
> other Pi Distro would be acceptable if needed
>
>

It would seem that its a fairly crap but stock HTML or flash delivery

Probably easiests to use he PI HDMI and invest in a radio
'mouse-and-keyboard' type controller and use the TV like a big monitor.

But is it a smart TV?



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[Chris Elvidge]

On 29/11/2018 13:48, Alister wrote:

Have you thought about OSMC or LibreELEC on the Pi? Or even a NowTV
Stick/Box?


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[Alister]

He bough a now TV stick & it would not do it
thats why I am now trying to get a pi to work



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[Alister]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:00:07 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 29/11/2018 13:48, Alister wrote:
>> Hi looking to smarterize my dads TV with a PI to enable him to watch
>> his football on TV rather than his laptop screen.
>>
> OK...
>
>> currently playback of uploaded video interviews to his club site work
>> well
>
> How?
>
> I thought you said they didn't work on his TV?

Sorry maybe I was not clear
uploaded interviews play fine on a Pi3B+, streamed videos fro iFollow
fail to start & simply hang.

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>> but the streamed content provided by I follow simply will not play.
>
> On what? What is "I follow"?
> Do you mean "Ifollow"?

Yes

>
> No doubt it is one of these 'DRM protected you p[ay and it barely works
> on a PC' type of things
>

Again yes, but he does have an account & it works with his laptop which
runs Fedora so it is not a window V Linux compatibility issue.

>
>
>> Any suggestions on what may be required to get this working, or even
>> simply how to start diagnosing the issue.
>>
>>
> A complete description of the bits that work and the bits that don't
> with protocols accurately described would be a start...
>
>
>
>> currently using a stock raspian install but that is not essential any
>> other Pi Distro would be acceptable if needed
>>
>>
> It would seem that its a fairly crap but stock HTML or flash delivery

hav not checks the flash support & the pi is using chromium so that may
be the issue, will give it a try anyway - thanks

>
> Probably easiests to use he PI HDMI and invest in a radio
> 'mouse-and-keyboard' type controller and use the TV like a big monitor.

That is exactly what I am trying to provide :-)

>
> But is it a smart TV?
>

No its a cheap & nasty "Polaroid" so dumb as shit.
hence the addition of the PI.

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[Björn Lundin]

On 2018-11-29 17:18, Alister wrote:
> Again yes, but he does have an account & it works with his laptop which
> runs Fedora so it is not a window V Linux compatibility issue.

Could you mirror the desktop to the pi with a remote desktop,
like VNC or RDP-ish stuff ?

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[MJP]

I suspect the simplest answer is to cast the laptop to the tv via a
chromecast, other opinions are available.

MJP

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[Alister]

possibly , would it be fast enough?, guess there is only on way to find
out.
x forwarding may also be an option the question is could my dad cope with
it - needs to be pretty idiot proof.



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[Alister]

Also a possible option
can Linux send to a chrome case - if so any pointers?



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[The Natural Philosopher]

Ok now at least the problem is clear.

It seems that the Ifollow works on Fedora/laptop linux, but not on Pi linux.

So the real issue is why that is.

Are you using identical browsers?

Is the Ifollow a flash app? Mmm. Seems it is.

Chromium on the pi has Flash support in built I think.

Have you enabled Flash for the sites?


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[The Natural Philosopher]

On 29/11/2018 21:04, Alister wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:13:21 +0100, Björn Lundin wrote:
>
>> On 2018-11-29 17:18, Alister wrote:
>>> Again yes, but he does have an account & it works with his laptop which
>>> runs Fedora so it is not a window V Linux compatibility issue.
>>
>> Could you mirror the desktop to the pi with a remote desktop,
>> like VNC or RDP-ish stuff ?
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> possibly , would it be fast enough?, guess there is only on way to find
> out.
> x forwarding may also be an option the question is could my dad cope with
> it - needs to be pretty idiot proof.
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Dont go x-forwarding. You need gigabit nework speeds and a lot of CPU to
do that effectively for full screen video. DAMHIKT

Frankly I'd lean towards resurrecting some old 32 bit machine from a
dumpster, slapping in a decent video card and installing x86 linux with
a remote keyboard and mouse...



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[Alister]

probably not, the Pi is using chromium by default fedora is using firefox
I have tried firefox on the Pi as well but i believe it is a tweaked
version

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> Is the Ifollow a flash app? Mmm. Seems it is.

any way for me to confirm, I do get the payer window displayed but the
play buttons just do not respond.

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> Chromium on the pi has Flash support in built I think.
>
> Have you enabled Flash for the sites?

not explicitly, is there some setting in cromium I need to adjust?

Many thanks for all the suggestions sofar, certainly helping & giving me
things to look into.
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