ExpatShield
#16
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has anyone used Apple tv? apparently you can get it jailbroken and get all of the uk channels over here
#17
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In general if you want to make things like iplayer work, you want hacker friendly stuff, not apple.
#18
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I bought a Roku 3 recently so I changed the WDTV that it replaced into a UK one and now I get iPlayer on it.
#19
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If you can instead run a PAC based proxy (basically javascript based proxy decisions) then you can use something like Media Hint to only route the necessary domains via the UK, leaving the rest untouched. At least at the moment, that means hackery.
What I'm thinking at the moment is a proxy server that itself runs the PAC file to reroute requests. That would allow anything you wanted to appear to be in the UK to just use what appears to the device to be a static proxy, but which was itself a dynamic proxy. More research is needed to see if someone has already done this (probably yes).
#20
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What I did is this:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archi...1604#r34464236
So my WDTV thinks it's in the UK and the Roku thinks it's in the US because I have that connected by ethernet into my old router which is running a sub-net, acting as a wireless booster for the front of my house where the signal is weak and uses the unblock-us DNS addresses.
So: Roku 3 for Netflix, Hulu+ Snagfilms, Vudu etc... and WDTV for BBC iPlayer and accessing my movies TV shows on the NAS.
#21
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So my WDTV thinks it's in the UK and the Roku thinks it's in the US because I have that connected by ethernet into my old router which is running a sub-net, acting as a wireless booster for the front of my house where the signal is weak and uses the unblock-us DNS addresses.
So: Roku 3 for Netflix, Hulu+ Snagfilms, Vudu etc... and WDTV for BBC iPlayer and accessing my movies TV shows on the NAS.
So: Roku 3 for Netflix, Hulu+ Snagfilms, Vudu etc... and WDTV for BBC iPlayer and accessing my movies TV shows on the NAS.
Got to see if squid, or another proxy server, will take a PAC file as a config.
#22
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For those interested in getting a WDTV, for say, iPlayer purposes - Officeworks have them on a $99 special at the moment :
http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail...ers/WDBGXT0NBK
http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail...ers/WDBGXT0NBK