Sky Player has not been officially released for the humax box yet - and it may never be! This version was 'found' after a bit of sniffing around the humax portal test site, and as it seemed to work, a couple of people came up with the idea of trying to get it to work before sky/humax wanted it to be working. They (sky/humax) wrote it all, and it runs off their servers in Korea. All the custom portal has done is allowed the box to access it.
Therefore if it does not work for any reason there is absolutely nothing that anybody on here can do to fix it for you. It may well have something to do with which ISP you are using/ how many devices you have set up on your sky go account (max 2 normally, but this may have changed).
for reference I'm on Sky broadband (basically easynet) so that my sky anytime+ would work - but now they have allowed access from other ISP's / other ISP have let them unicast on-demand shows onto their network with the bandwith implications that has for their other customers!
This may well go someway to answer why some people reported that they could get live channels to work (which go via multicast) but not on-demand and hence go via unicast and use up more of the inter ISP bandwidth.
Therefore please feel free to continue to post observations as to what is working, and what is not so that people if they wish can look at trends etc of what’s going on and try and find out common causes etc, however please don't expect any help from the authors of any of the custom firmware/packages unless they are so inclined to investigate these issues (which without wanting to step on anybodies toes - I doubt they will want to as they have given up a large amount of time to coding and disasembaling of the original encrypted hdf files so that the firmware could be moded in the first place.......
I would suggest if you are going to report errors like this, that the bare minimum you should post would be:
Humax box type
Your ISP
Your ACTUAL connected upstream and downstream rates from your modem
Constant/intermitant fault
Exact time/date you noticed it starting
How many boxes/devices you have on your sky go account
The sky packages you have chosen
Where in the UK you are (its not going to work outside the UK!)
Wired/wireless connection (and ACTUAL speed)
Other devices on your netowrk (e.g. sky box, other routers/servers/computers switches etc)
Any fancy routing you have set up to get to the outside world/the outside world to get to you
Any firewall rules you have in places on either inbound or outbound connections
