Once upon a time, 'balkanisation of the Internet' referred to airgaps, firewalls, 'walled gardens', redirects and suchlike.
But authoritarian governments, control-oriented appliance-suppliers, monopoly content-owning corporations, and manipulative consumer marketing corporations, aren't all we have to worry about now. Selectivity in standards support, disrespect for standards, and sheer ignorance by the people who run sites, appear to be key factors in increasing unreachability and dysfunctionality. __________________ At 14:47 +1100 2/2/18, David wrote: >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. > >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. > >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". > >Videos on the Fairfax website don't work either. I think it basically uses >H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, but the browser console reports: > >> 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 > >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. > >DavidL. > >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
