[clug] iView on a TV that doesn't support it

Sat May 2 17:21:31 MDT 2015

I recently also found that I couldn't view ABC-iview on Firefox or Chrome
(Linux Mint 17 on three different computers). There was some suggestion I'd
come across somewhere that there was an extension available for Chrome (or
Chromium) that fixed it and it did:

"HTML5 Video for ABC iView 0.1.3

Replace Adobe Flash with native HTML5 video tags for video playback on
iview.abc.net.au"

A search for it under settings/extensions ("abc -iview") should find it.

This replaces Adobe Flash with the more modern HTML5.

But I then couldn't watch SBS-on-demand on Chrome/Chromium but that is
still viewable on Firefox (although you might have to ignore/override the
warning about the Shockwave Flash 11.2.202.424 plugin vulnerability.  The
suggested solution, to update the plugin, won't work, as far as I know, as
it is no longer maintained for Linux by Adobe.)

So Chrome for ABC-iview; Firefox for SBS-on-demand. I don't know about the
other online services.

Regards
Norm Bakker

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>    4. Re: iView on a TV that doesn't support it (Ian Matters)
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> Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 08:16:42 +1000
> From: Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [clug] iView on a TV that doesn't support it
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> G'day.
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> I recently visited my Dad up in Bundaberg and was surprised to see that he
> has a monster huge flat screen TV in his lounge room. I commented on it and
> he muttered darkly about its inability to play content from ABC iView. It
> seems that it while it is a 'smart' TV with a browser etc, it lacks the
> codecs needed to actually play iView.
>
> Being the helpful lad that I am, I resolved to help out by putting
> something together to solve his problem. Back home I bought a Raspberry Pi
> 2, a wifi dongle, a mini remote keyboard, a case, a power supply and a
> micro SD card which I immediately snapped in half by accident and had to
> replace. Okay, so far, so good.
>
> My idea was to set up Kodi (formerly XBMC) on the Pi and install a plugin
> for iView which a quick Google assured me actually exists. I decided to use
> the latest openelec image which includes the latest Kodi. That all
> downloaded, burned to the card and booted just fine. After a bit of a
> struggle with Kodi's not-quite-intuitive UI, I managed to add the
> 'SuperRepo' containing the iView Add-On and got the iView Add-On installed.
> I grabbed the SBS one for good measure as well.
>
> First impressions with Kodi on the RPi2 are very favourable - much snappier
> than XBMC on the Rpi1 which is where I last tried to use it.
>
> Then I set about using iView. Calling up Video -> Add-Ons -> iView, Kodi
> goes into 'working' for quite a while. More than a minute. Maybe about 90
> seconds. What seems to be happening is that it's downloading a list of
> about 1800 programmes and their thumbnails because when it finally comes
> back to life i am presented with an apparently unordered enormous list of
> everything currently available on iView.
>
> A keen geek like me might tolerate the huge delay and the massive random
> list of shows, but my Dad, not so much. He'd expect to be presented with
> something closer to iView's usual web interface, and to see it pretty soon
> after he clicked on it.
>
> I ought to mention that the SBS plugin is much better behaved and guides
> you through selection options quite quickly without grabbing a massive list
> so I expect the iView one is worse because of the way ABC doesn't expose
> their stuff properly for easy interfacing.
>
> So I am wondering what alternatives anyone can suggest. Rpi Kodi doesn't
> have a web browser so I can't just do it that way. Have I perhaps missed a
> much better iView plugin than the one in SuperRepo? Is there another
> 'turnkey' distro for the Pi I could use that might just run a web browser
> at boot and give away the idea of Kodi? Otherwise I quite like the openelec
> / kodi combo for seamlessly booting as an appliance to the kodi home screen
> and for its (mostly) snappy performance. And of course it can do a
> bajillion more things than just play iView.
>
> Ideas?
>
> --
> crash
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 15:42:20 +1000
> From: Chris Smart <clug at christophersmart.com>
> To: linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [clug] iView on a TV that doesn't support it
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> On 02/05/15 08:16, Mike Carden wrote:
> > So I am wondering what alternatives anyone can suggest. Rpi Kodi doesn't
> > have a web browser so I can't just do it that way. Have I perhaps missed
> a
> > much better iView plugin than the one in SuperRepo? Is there another
> > 'turnkey' distro for the Pi I could use that might just run a web browser
> > at boot and give away the idea of Kodi? Otherwise I quite like the
> openelec
> > / kodi combo for seamlessly booting as an appliance to the kodi home
> screen
> > and for its (mostly) snappy performance. And of course it can do a
> > bajillion more things than just play iView.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> For what it's worth I use a RPi B and Kodi but with the "XBMC Catchup-TV
> AU" addon repository. The iView addon itself is by Andy Botting
> (v1.6.6). Works really well for me, only complaint is I can't "play from
> here" to play a bunch of episodes back to back. Takes about 3 seconds to
> load the addon, another 3 for loading a channel, another 3 to load a
> show's episodes.
>
> I just tried the Android iView App which now has Chromecast support. I
> did what I usually do, played some Peppa Pig, and it seemed to work.
> Crashed once, recovered, sometimes got some skipping.
>
> If you use Chrome you could play from the iView website directly and if
> you install the official Chromecast extension, can cast that full screen
> tab directly to your TV. I just tested that and it seemed to work better
> than the iView app, and as a bonus you can cast any website.
>
> So given you have a Chromecast, maybe give those a shot and see if it
> works well enough for your dad.
>
> -c
>
>
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> Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 15:47:54 +1000
> From: Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info>
> To: Chris Smart <clug at christophersmart.com>
> Cc: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [clug] iView on a TV that doesn't support it
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> No solution just a note that iview no longer works for me on either ubu
> 14.04 or ps3. Both stopped working about a month ago. SBS's upgraded thing
> is actually better than it was. Shame the ABC just didn't use that.
> On 02/05/2015 3:42 PM, "Chris Smart" <clug at christophersmart.com> wrote:
>
> > On 02/05/15 08:16, Mike Carden wrote:
> > > So I am wondering what alternatives anyone can suggest. Rpi Kodi
> doesn't
> > > have a web browser so I can't just do it that way. Have I perhaps
> missed
> > a
> > > much better iView plugin than the one in SuperRepo? Is there another
> > > 'turnkey' distro for the Pi I could use that might just run a web
> browser
> > > at boot and give away the idea of Kodi? Otherwise I quite like the
> > openelec
> > > / kodi combo for seamlessly booting as an appliance to the kodi home
> > screen
> > > and for its (mostly) snappy performance. And of course it can do a
> > > bajillion more things than just play iView.
> > >
> > > Ideas?
> >
> > For what it's worth I use a RPi B and Kodi but with the "XBMC Catchup-TV
> > AU" addon repository. The iView addon itself is by Andy Botting
> > (v1.6.6). Works really well for me, only complaint is I can't "play from
> > here" to play a bunch of episodes back to back. Takes about 3 seconds to
> > load the addon, another 3 for loading a channel, another 3 to load a
> > show's episodes.
> >
> > I just tried the Android iView App which now has Chromecast support. I
> > did what I usually do, played some Peppa Pig, and it seemed to work.
> > Crashed once, recovered, sometimes got some skipping.
> >
> > If you use Chrome you could play from the iView website directly and if
> > you install the official Chromecast extension, can cast that full screen
> > tab directly to your TV. I just tested that and it seemed to work better
> > than the iView app, and as a bonus you can cast any website.
> >
> > So given you have a Chromecast, maybe give those a shot and see if it
> > works well enough for your dad.
> >
> > -c
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> Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 16:13:31 +1000
> From: Ian Matters <iristech at gmail.com>
> To: Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info>
> Cc: CLUG <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [clug] iView on a TV that doesn't support it
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> iView works for me with Ubuntu 14.04 provided I use the Chrome browser. No
> go with Firefox plus a-dopy flash though.
>
> Cheers, Ian Matters
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> > On 2 May 2015, at 3:47 pm, Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info> wrote:
> >
> > No solution just a note that iview no longer works for me on either ubu
> > 14.04 or ps3. Both stopped working about a month ago. SBS's upgraded
> thing
> > is actually better than it was. Shame the ABC just didn't use that.
> > On 02/05/2015 3:42 PM, "Chris Smart" <clug at christophersmart.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/05/15 08:16, Mike Carden wrote:
> >>> So I am wondering what alternatives anyone can suggest. Rpi Kodi
> doesn't
> >>> have a web browser so I can't just do it that way. Have I perhaps
> missed
> >> a
> >>> much better iView plugin than the one in SuperRepo? Is there another
> >>> 'turnkey' distro for the Pi I could use that might just run a web
> browser
> >>> at boot and give away the idea of Kodi? Otherwise I quite like the
> >> openelec
> >>> / kodi combo for seamlessly booting as an appliance to the kodi home
> >> screen
> >>> and for its (mostly) snappy performance. And of course it can do a
> >>> bajillion more things than just play iView.
> >>>
> >>> Ideas?
> >>
> >> For what it's worth I use a RPi B and Kodi but with the "XBMC Catchup-TV
> >> AU" addon repository. The iView addon itself is by Andy Botting
> >> (v1.6.6). Works really well for me, only complaint is I can't "play from
> >> here" to play a bunch of episodes back to back. Takes about 3 seconds to
> >> load the addon, another 3 for loading a channel, another 3 to load a
> >> show's episodes.
> >>
> >> I just tried the Android iView App which now has Chromecast support. I
> >> did what I usually do, played some Peppa Pig, and it seemed to work.
> >> Crashed once, recovered, sometimes got some skipping.
> >>
> >> If you use Chrome you could play from the iView website directly and if
> >> you install the official Chromecast extension, can cast that full screen
> >> tab directly to your TV. I just tested that and it seemed to work better
> >> than the iView app, and as a bonus you can cast any website.
> >>
> >> So given you have a Chromecast, maybe give those a shot and see if it
> >> works well enough for your dad.
> >>
> >> -c
> >> --
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