Channel 4 on demand

[Sydrik]

Holy shit. What a completely toss service. BBC i-player is atleast semi-decent but the channel 4 thing is utter wank. Tried watching a show from monday night that I missed and it churned my pc to a halt. 100k mem usage. Tried downloading it via the same thing and got predicted time of 150minutes and a shit speed.

Gave up and newzbin'd it instead. Seriously people avoid it like you would Trems pants on the last day of the month.

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[Cadiva]

Holy shit. What a completely toss service. BBC i-player is atleast semi-decent but the channel 4 thing is utter wank. Tried watching a show from monday night that I missed and it churned my pc to a halt. 100k mem usage. Tried downloading it via the same thing and got predicted time of 150minutes and a shit speed.

Gave up and newzbin'd it instead. Seriously people avoid it like you would Trems pants on the last day of the month.

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Completely agree, tried to use it for something ages ago and gave up and uninstalled it again.

 

[taB]

I've watched the entirety of Peep Show and Adam & Joe through it so it's not all bad. Not tried it in the last couple of weeks though.

There was an article on the beeb news that estimated that kservice who run these things like torrents are costing ISPs £8million a year or some such with their increased traffic.

Just make sure they're turned off unless you're using them.

 

[RandomBastard]

4OD is one of the evil on demand tv apps because it doesn't close down kservice once you close the app so it keeps on using your bandwidth to distribute their content.

 

[Cadiva]

4OD is one of the evil on demand tv apps because it doesn't close down kservice once you close the app so it keeps on using your bandwidth to distribute their content.

That was one of the reasons it irritated me, I ended up having to block it and remove it from the start up menu. Still didn't help much so I uninstalled and got rid all together.

 

[taB]

I read somewhere that the command 'net stop kservice' will stop it. I do know fuck all about computers however. I found if I blocked it 4od wouldn't work so now I just disable on startup if I'm not going to use it.

I might be acheiving nothing

 

[FozzySon]

It does stop it, I stop it whenever I use these kind of things. Ofcourse, most of the time I just download whatever it is and remove the DRM, watch whatever it is, then delete the file.

 

[DaGaffer]

4OD is one of the evil on demand tv apps because it doesn't close down kservice once you close the app so it keeps on using your bandwidth to distribute their content.

Why does that make it evil? That's how P2P works. When I'm using other P2P services I usually make sure I seed at least as much as I leech.

Personally I can't see how people can rave about iPlayer and bitch about 40D; it's the same technology (if you download rather than stream). Its all a moot point anyway because 40D and iPlayer will both be replaced soon as part of Project Kangaroo.

 

[Chronictank]

I read somewhere that the command 'net stop kservice' will stop it. I do know fuck all about computers however. I found if I blocked it 4od wouldn't work so now I just disable on startup if I'm not going to use it.

I might be acheiving nothing

it does but you cant use the program again until you do "net start kservice"
It's not ideal but its free and i havent had problems with it before

 

[RandomBastard]

Why does that make it evil? That's how P2P works. When I'm using other P2P services I usually make sure I seed at least as much as I leech.

Simple. Its not how it works I object too.

When the app is closed the p2p should stop too.

When you close the iplayer app, it stops sharing till you re open it.

When you close 4OD it keeps sharing until you manually stop the service, something joe bloggs isn't going to know how to do.

Thats just not cricket.

 

[DaGaffer]

Simple. Its not how it works I object too.

When the app is closed the p2p should stop too.

When you close the iplayer app, it stops sharing till you re open it.

When you close 4OD it keeps sharing until you manually stop the service, something joe bloggs isn't going to know how to do.

Thats just not cricket.

I thought iPlayer did that too. It certainly did during the beta.