online tv for mac os x

technomateboy · Post by **technomateboy** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:25 am

will wine deliver the many and varied satellite streamed tv shows that are common for pc (turn your pc into a satellite ect) but don't seam to be available for mac? if so could someone point me in the correct direction. cant afford sky at the moment just been made redundant.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:19 pm

technomateboy <[email protected]> wrote:

Sent: Jan 26, 2009 9:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] online tv for mac os x

will wine deliver the many and varied satellite streamed tv shows that are common for pc (turn your pc into a satellite ect) but don't seam to be available for mac? if so could someone point me in the correct direction. cant afford sky at the moment just been made redundant.

I don't think these work on Linux either.

The question you should be posing back to the producers is if they plan on producing a Wine compatible version or a Mac specific version.

Also, some of these programs install unfavorable software (aka spy-ware).

James McKenzie

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:29 pm

technomateboy wrote:will wine deliver the many and varied satellite streamed tv shows that are common for pc (turn your pc into a satellite ect)

If those use DRM none of it will work on Wine or Mac. If they don't use DRM, then why do you need Wine? Use mplayer.

technomateboy · Post by **technomateboy** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:56 pm

can i view live streams from the internet too with the mplayer or would i need other software?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:47 pm

technomateboy wrote:can i view live streams from the internet too with the mplayer or would i need other software?

Mplayer is just one many many media players. It just natively supports most win32 codecs.