What version of VLC are you running?
A friend had problems whilst running 1.03 but after upgrading to 2.07 everything was hunky dory

Its all cool now, I got it to work I used a different link.

Ah Ok

still not working on Channel 5 link and twitter says it's still down - oh..twitters now saying its back and gives chnnel 5 link, but still doesn't come up, screen blank no pic, all black heeeellllpppppppppppppp

Shorter VLC url:

http://bit.ly/bbuklive

Brightcove now working for me. BB website still rubbish!

I know it's a bore, but just wait for it to load, mine took 10 mins. But it's fine now

It's glaringly obvious that C5 didn't have the infrastructure in place to accommodate the Live Feed.
Lets hope next time around we have something in place from the start that has been fully stress tested before going live.

Have any numbers been released yet on how many hits the LF averages?

That works.

Oathy has been in touch with Ben Frow and apparently the feed is doing "OK" but that's the only mention I've seen of it in terms of ratings.
I'd love to see a viewer ticker on the feed like we have for some other streaming sites,so we'd have an exact number of viewers each night ...pretty sure that won't happen though

I fancied watching it tonight too, but the Channel 5 link is not working and I'm not downloading anything just to watch it. I don't know if live feed will continue- if it's this user unfriendly, what's the point as only the most hardcore of fans will use it.

It was ironically so much better when you could just press the red button virtually all day, and with several different views as well.

channel 5 not working still - ridiculous I AM FURIOUS AND MAY EAT MY GOLDFISH AS A RESULT
clicking the link on Twitter too, no luck its just a black screen - stupid techys not sorting it out

work's great wish i'd done this long time ago ,cheer's ,appreciated AV

VLC is a very good video,music and internet radio station player that's free
It's one of those programs that's well worth having even if you're not using it every day.

Thanks

If the C5 for website was more reliable, they would probably be doing better than 'ok' - The 12 - 2am LF has been awesome, if only they'd have done that from day one.

I agree
00:00 - 02:00 is perfect for picking up the viewers who've been watching BOTS

Try changing browsers. I am using chrome. Site does not work for me on firefox.

If you use the VLC plugin for Firefox then the links (not the C5 one, the others) open up automatically in a new tab. No need to copy/paste the URL - just click on it.

IM BACK ON and using Firefox, refreshed page and used link via twitter
- now all thats on is charlie in bed doing nothing in the dark - what a bore - so annoying - these lot do crash out early