[clug] Iview not working for fedora 20

[George at Clug]

    Paul,

When accessing iView on the ABC site, my Android phone says "Goole
Play Store needs background data to be enabled, Enable , Quit".  I
don't enable this on my phone, and so I was unable to play the video.
Why would Google insist on users connecting to their Online Store just
to play free videos from a web site ? I don't like companies that
insist on you using their "Store" to be able to do anything useful on
your computers (phones, tablets, laptops, or desktops).  



Google Play is Google's renamed and rebranded Android Market online
store for purchasing and downloading apps, music, books, movies and
similar content for use on Android-powered smartphones, tablets,
Google TV and similar devices.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-google-play/



At Monday, 08-06-2015 on 12:15 George at Clug wrote:


    Paul,

I can confirm that I get this message (Ooops..)  too.

In Windows, if I don't have Adobe Flash Player installed I get the
error message; "The Adobe Flash player [1] plug-in is required to
watch video on the iview website."

In Windows Edge web browser
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/iview-guest-playlist/IV1460H006S00#playing 
plays as expected.

My hunch is that the iView site is not compatible with the Adobe Flash
player plugin in Linux, or that it has Windows like code for accessing
cookies or the like and so this does not exist on Linux. I wonder if
anyone with Wine installed could try using a web browser running under
Wine ?


George.





At Monday, 08-06-2015 on 08:38 Paul Wilson wrote:


George the error message I get is something like:

Ooops..
The Video you are trying to watch is unavailable
http://iview-vh.akamaihd.net/z/playvback/.....mp4.csmil/manifest.f4m...
blah blah.

Paul

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:58 AM, George at Clug  wrote:
>     My attempt to included an image of the error into my email
failed,
> so this time I have tried attaching the image.
>
> Below two sites work for me even if others
>
likehttp://iview.abc.net.au/programs/being-french/ZX0297A001S00#playingdo
> not.
>
>
>
>
http://freezone.iinet.net.au/vod/freezone/music/noise-11/sessions/23123
>
> http://freezone.iinet.net.au/vod/freezone/lifestyle/kitty-cam/13261
>
>
> At Monday, 08-06-2015 on 07:31 George at Clug wrote:
>
>
>     Paul,
>
> Is this the type of error you get?  I get this error in Iceweasel
> under Debian Jessie using Xfce.
>
>
>
> At Sunday, 07-06-2015 on 21:29 Paul Wilson wrote:
>
>
> Anyone using Firefox to view abc iview?
> It used to work  but now it throws an error,  even though my
> windows pc
> works fine
> Paul
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Links:
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[1] http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

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