[ILUG] Proxy for Sky TV

[Kevin Philp]

Conor Wynne wrote:
> Frank Murphy wrote:
>   
>> On 29/07/09 15:15, Michael Connors wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/7/29 Timothy Murphy<gayleard at eircom.net>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I have a Sky box, and recently re-registered with skyplayer.com
>>>> which said I would be able to see TV on line.
>>>> However, after some exploration I learned that
>>>> this is only available to UK subscribers.
>>>>         
>> <snip>
>>
>>     
>>> And then if he is running Linux, have him install Squid from the package
>>> manager and configure it to accept requests from any machine on the VPN.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>       
>> Think skyplayer is Shiverlight required
>>
>>     
> That's right, unless it has changed since I had SKY.
> Now I have a FreeSAT box (kinda linux hippie as is free) and the quality
> is outstanding.
>
> Vastly superiour to the SKY in terms of picture quality (Humax PVR box).
> (BBC HD is amazing, and just realised that the movies on ITV are also in
> HD. Not tried the footie yet as only realised this the other day)
>
> You could install a windows VM, and use that for Silverlight.
> Naturally a 64bit with VT or AMD-V will be required for full
> virtualisation. I see no reason why that wouldn't work.
>
> Regards
> Conor.
>
>
>   
The Linux version is Moonlight, developed by Novell and is open source

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight