Watching a channel whilst listening to a radio channel

[fergyc]

Is there anyway to watch a channel, RTL, and listen to a radio station, 5 live, at the same time. I know that you can use the PiP function to watch two channels at once, even though it's got an awful frame rate but is there a plugin that lets you watch one whilst listening to another?

 

[Lazarus]

Ah, the F1 season is almost upon us ................

 

[fergyc]

I'm quite happy to watch in German but have family that aren't. Moan on when the football isn't in English!

 

[sonnetpete]

Fergy, this has just worked for me but I suspect not for everyone. My two receivers feed into a switched HDMI double socket which feeds into my home cinema sound amp:

First I removed the HDMI feed from home cinema to the TV and replaced it directly with the HDMI feed from the VU+, set it to RTL and muted the TV sound. Then switched over to the motorised dish and DrHD, turned it to Astra2 and Radio 5 Live and fed the HDMI output to the home cinema. Result, RTL vision with R5 Live audio.

TBH it was a real faff on and I'll probably put up with the German commentary instead. I can get 5 Live on the car radio via Long wave but somehow I don't think driving the car into the living room is a viable option!!

 

[Analoguesat]

Is there anyway to watch a channel, RTL, and listen to a radio station, 5 live, at the same time. I know that you can use the PiP function to watch two channels at once, even though it's got an awful frame rate but is there a plugin that lets you watch one whilst listening to another?

I'd be surprised if German video / R5 audio is really viable without some sort of adjustable time lag. RTL used to be a good 3 seconds in front of the BBC coverage, and watching the pictures with the audio 2 or 3 seconds out is going to be a horrible experience.

 

[fergyc]

They have got a 5 live radio (brother nicked it from me!) that was bought at a car boot sale for 20p. It could be turned on and put on the arm of the setee, was just wondering if there was a short cut plugin.

In F1 a few seconds difference doesn't seem to matter as much as football.

 

[PaulR]

Is Five Live available outside the UK as a stream from the BBC website?

 

[fergyc]

Yeah, I suppose using the radio plugin would be a good option

 

[Burnham Beech]

My experience with Radio 5 live outside the Uk is that they block access for much of the useful stuff. So you need to investigate the murky world of proxy IPs.

I could not bother with all that stuff so I now have a second receiver and get the satellite radio 5 broadcast - they haven't worked out how to block that!