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Hi Eric,

The other sites I mentioned are the alternative broadcasters in the UK (which also require a UK ISP via proxy). They also offer 'catch-up' services on their programs that have been aired on their channels. I would love to watch them but not sure about the URL patterns required. TVCatchup is a collection of all the channels in the UK but is aired 'live' over the stream so you have to watch the programs as they come on.

I would be grateful if you could look at the following sites and give me some pointers. I think if we can figure this out alot of expats on this side of the world will be directed to your site to watch their favourite TV shows! Thanks Foxy Proxy!

http://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/default.html
http://www.channel4.com/watch_online/
http://tvcatchup.com/

I look forward to your reply,

Regards

Peter

Hi,

I have the same problem. I have managed to set up the BBC iplayer thanks to your excellent instructions but cannot get the ITV iplayer to work. I would be most grateful to knowing how to do this as well.

Regards
Anita

I agree, I would to see patterns for those sites as well.
Channel 4 i particular!

Would be lovely if you could help out.

Cheers

Hi,

Since I haven't found time to do this myself, here are instructions for you to find the patterns yourself:

1. Enable logging in FoxyProxy (Ctrl+F2 to open FoxyProxy then go to the Logging tab and click the "Enabled" checkbox). Ensure "Do not store or display URLs" is UNCHECKED.

2. Play vide from desired website in Firefox

3. Click "Refresh" in the FoxyProxy logging tab. You will see the URL from which the video played / streamed. This is the URL you should create a pattern for.

Let me know if you need help writing patterns.

Eric

Ok....So I have been working on trying to find the patterns for www.channel4.com.

I have been able to locate 3 URLs that seems checking for the geographic location.

I have followed the instruction on Channel4:s site for downloading the plug-in needed to watch using Firefox.

When I push the PLAY-button a new window appears and the WMP starts downloading "Media Usage Rights".
After that I get a pop-up window named "Media Usage Rights Acquisition" telling me the following:

"Sorry

You need to be within the UKor the Republic of Ireland to watch Channel 4 programmes.

Until you come ashore, to watch TV clips, please click here. To find out more visit our help section at help.channel4.com."

I am currently stuck here and I can not honestly get past this point.

Need som feedback on how to bypass the "Media Usage Rights Acquisition".

Cheers
Richie

Anita, please post your patterns for all to share. Also, I will put them in the FoxyProxy FAQ. Thanks!!

I am going though some older patterns I had & updating some that quit working. then I have to post the results on a new section of the forum called Share Your Patterns if someone finds out a new pattern that works, please add it.

I will look at
ITV first, due to the fact that channel4's site seems to try to tie itself to IE & WMP's proxy settings. Based on the comment above.

once all of this happens I'll also post my results here.

Y'know there is no reason why the BBC pattern would not work for ITV catchup, as long as you have a good UK proxy then all you need to do is change FoxyProxy (right click and change the setting to "use Proxy "BBC iPlayer" for all URLs) whenever you want to access the ITV site, this does work, but you need to be patient. I know its nice to configure it properly, only to kick in when you go to the specific site but sometimes thats a luxury.

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Hi,

I can confirm that the 4oD application uses MS Internet Explorer proxy settings (its probably just IE hosted in a winform.)

To use 4oD from abroad just set your IE proxy to a UK machine and away you go.

I have tried setting a UK proxy in the LAN settings for IE8, but no joy.
Any other ideas? (I'm OK with BBCiPlayer & ITC V Catch-up both working OK using the same proxy).