Re: [LINK] Video streaming

Hi David, On 2021-01-03 10:37, you wrote: > Last night, I tried to watch the Doctor Who New Year Special on ABC iview > using Google Chrome. A PG classification warning played, then nothing. The > situation with Pale Moon is similar. Switching to Brave, I got a message > about Google

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

On 02/02/2018 14:47, David wrote: Once upon a time I could happily play ABC iView and SBS on-demand videos. But now ... Last night, I tried to watch the Doctor Who New Year Special on ABC iview using Google Chrome. A PG classification warning played, then nothing. The situation with Pale

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:18 +1100, David wrote: > -- Forwarded Message -- > From: rene > 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

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

Hi Irene, On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:33:46 AEDT you wrote: > Also since trying to post the appended message to Link, I've remembered this > HTML5 video test site: > https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html > Hopefully that would help you figure out what type of "HTML5" videos your

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

. -- Forwarded Message -- From: rene <rene...@libertus.net> To: <link@mailman.anu.edu.au> Sent: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 16:54:04 +1000 Subject: Re: [LINK] Video streaming On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:47:34 +1100, David wrote: > Once upon a time I could happily play ABC iView and SBS o

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

On 2/02/2018 2:47 PM, David wrote: Once upon a time I could happily play ABC iView and SBS on-demand videos. The last time I successfully used SBS on-demand was in July. Recent attempts to catch up on a recommended series have failed. Every browser on my (Windows 7) system either runs nothing

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

On Friday, 2 February 2018 17:28:36 AEDT JanW wrote: > IView worked straight away in Chrome. I read somewhere that Chrome has done a deal with Adobe involving Flash, which is possibly why it works for you using Chrome but is so abysmally slow for me using the Flash package in my Linux

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

I used to use SBS on demand on Chrome browser. It won't sign in any longer. Ghostery is listing a HEAP of trackers. I think I'll pass. I tried logging in with my established account and with Google. Both failed. Hence I put it down to the Ghostery blocks. Using my tablet with the SBS On Demand

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

I tried to use SBS On demand from a laptop the other day. It insisted I create an account and login then never played the video. I tried various browsers. Maybe it's my adblockers or maybe it's that I don't run flash any more. Eventually I gave up. On the other hand my raspberry pi running

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

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

Re: [LINK] Video streaming

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

[LINK] Video streaming

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