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Dr Bob Jansen
bob.jansen at turtlelane.com.au
Fri Feb 2 15:34:19 AEDT 2018
David,
That's odd, I can watch SBS OnDemand ok, as long as I'm using a VPN to pretend I am in Australia. ABC doesn't work, it detects the VPN and refuses to play. I find this amusing given we complain about geolocking by others but the ABC does it also. BTW, I normally watch on my iPad using Safari.
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> On 2 Feb 2018, at 12:47, David <dlochrin at key.net.au> wrote:
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> Once upon a time I could happily play ABC iView and SBS on-demand videos. But now I have the latest Linux, Firefox & Videolan packages with H.264 support, and Flash, and nothing much works at all.
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> ABC iView plays at such a low frame-rate & resolution it's unwatchable. The ABC seem to be doggedly persisting with Flash despite its terrible reputation regarding security and the fact it's disappearing from Firefox altogether, in fact all plugin support is going eventually.
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> SBS on-demand doesn't work at all, but I don't think it uses Flash (?). The Firefox browser console displays a mass of diagnostics beginning with "Error: window.SBS.ensighten is undefined".
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> Videos on the Fairfax website don't work either. I think it basically uses H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, but the browser console reports:
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>> Cannot play media. No decoders for requested formats: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl, audio/mpegurl, audio/x-mpegurl, application/x-mpegurl, video/x-mpegurl, video/mpegurl, application/mpegurl, application/dash+xml, video/mp4;codecs="avc1.4d400d mp4a.40.2", application/vnd.apple.mpegurl, application/vnd.apple.mpegurl, video/mp4, video/mp4, video/mp4, video/mp4
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> But all is not lost, YouTube videos (H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC) work perfectly. Pity I don't normally watch YouTube...
>
> There's more at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/why-do-i-have-click-activate-plugins and the "compatibility" document linked at the top of the article if anyone's interested.
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> DavidL.
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