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.

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