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.
BobJ --------------- Dr Bob Jansen Turtle Lane Studios Pty Ltd 122 Cameron St, Rockdale NSW 2216, Australia Ph (Korea): +82 10-4494-0328 Ph (Australia) +61 414 297 448 Resume: http://au.linkedin.com/in/bobjan Skype: bobjtls KakaoTalk: bobjtls http://www.turtlelane.com.au In line with the Australian anti-spam legislation, if you wish to receive no further email from me, please send me an email with the subject "No Spam" > On 2 Feb 2018, at 12:47, David <dloch...@key.net.au> 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 > Link@mailman.anu.edu.au > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
