[ubuntu-uk] watch tv on ubuntu!

[Javad Ayaz]

Ive also used it...and found it quite cpu hungry!!!
picture quality is okish.! not that great in full screen!


On 12/05/2008, Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com> wrote:
>
> Tony Arnold wrote:
> > I agree, but portable devices are covered by your home license and a
> > portable device is one that does not need mains power. So a student at
> > University could watch TV on a portable device which would be covered by
> > his/her parents license back home.
>
> Correct - the important part is "does not need mains power"; it must
> contain its own batteries inside its own case.
>
> I recall from student days that a 14" portable TV with an optional
> 12-volt power input attached to a car battery, required the student to
> have their own TV licence, as the battery was not contained within the
> case of the device.
>
> A laptop, however, definitely does have the battery within the case, so
> a student living away from home could use the laptop to watch TV on
> their parents' TV licence, provided they never watched TV with the mains
> charger attached.
>
> I just tried out Zattoo myself and was very impressed. I wonder how much
> outbound bandwidth the peer-to-peer part consumes?
>
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