Ubuntu 12.04; GiP 2.91; Asrock ION330HT

HD playback with the default Totem (either from within Web PVR or directly from Totem) is too jerky to watch, but VLC is perfect (from the terminal, from VLC, and from the file manager). The question is, how to get the Web PVR to use VLC for playback?

I've tried

get_iplayer --add-prefs --player='vlc -'

and this changes .get_iplayer/options as expected, but to no avail: Web PVR 'Playfile' continues to use Totem.

System has been restarted following the options update, and the Web PVR cookies have been cleared.

Many thanks for whatever help can be offered!

For web pvr, configure media player in your browser, not via . The option shouldn't be saved in preferences. get_player doesn't prevent it, but it will screw up web pvr playback.

Many thanks for this. It never occurred to me that the playback application was a browser setting.

I use Firefox, and perhaps it's because I'm dense it took me some time to discover how to set this. My solution was:

- in FF, open the dialog at Edit/Preferences/Applications
- find the Content Type entry "MP3 audio (streamed)"
- for 'Action', select 'Use other...'
- in the 'Select Helper Application' dialog navigate to /usr/bin, select 'vlc', and click on 'Open'

And there we are: the GiP web pvr uses VLC for playback. Champion!