Here is a step by step guide on how to download videos from cbc at
http://www.allavsoft.com/how-to/download-video-from-cbc-ca.html
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Sorry for the noise. Seems to be working again in all versions. Maybe
a glitch on their end?
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This problem has returned.
adobe flash version: 11.2.202 on ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 don't work with
CBC videos. For some reason the bundled version of flash that comes
with google chrome (have to disable the system plugin) gets a little
further even though it's the same version (11.2.202)
However
The problem is sorted in Ubuntu since ~2010 May.
But of course I agree it would be nice to move from Flash to something
more open.
Obviously, Ubuntu is installable on your mac.
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Don't feel too bad Ubuntu'ers.
Their site doesn't work on Mac OS X (Chrome,Safari,Firefox) either with
Adobe Flash plugin 10.2.159.1
The only moment when the CBC video site had ever worked for me on my
relatively new MBP was the day that I bought it, before any system
updates were installed.
The
I'm going to set this to fixed, since Flash 10.1 had earlier been
confirmed to fix the problem, and seems to have done so now that it is
released.
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Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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FWIW, the url http://www.cbc.ca/video now works for me. It didn't for
quite some time. Not sure when it started working ... I just happened to
re-try tonight.
I'm running a fully up-to-date Lucid with:
firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.1
flashplugin-no
Do we have any sense when the new 10.1 r53 will be out of beta, and able
to become standard with Ubuntu/etc? It is one thing for us geeks to
know how to watch CBC videos. It is another to allow it to work for my
mother as well (I don't want custom stuff on her machine, to make
administering from
Apologize to me? What for? It's a double whammy as far as the CBC rtmp videos
go,
since they now work with Adobe Flashplayer (I'll take your word for it) as well
as without
the Flashplayer using flvstreamer.
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Eureka!
A few things to say:
1. Howard Eisenberger: I apologize. It *is* flash
2. CBC Video works with 10.1 r53! I am using it even in x64 (probably
will be unstable). Installation instructions (I modified for the most
recent RC4):
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-adobe-flash-player-10-
Tarek:
I checked my netbook Firefox 3.6.3 Add-ons in Jolicloud and I'm running
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53 and CBC videos all display perfectly :)
I checked with a java tester site to make sure and I definitely don't have Java
installed.
In my desktop Lucid Lynx Firefox 3.6.3 Add-ons I have Shockwa
To reiterate one last time: This is *NOT* a flash problem in any sense.
The Flash player works fine once the parameters are passed to it. This
is a problem of the surrounding programming that passes the parameters.
Most specifically, the programming that has to do with whether you are
geographicall
Personally, if Flash had worked from the get go (I tried both Debian and
Solaris 10 and did comment to the CBC),
I probably would not have looked so hard to find a way to watch the videos
without Flash. Thanks to Tyson, I was
finally able to get flvstreamer to work. See messages #34 and #45. I ha
Actually, it's pretty clear that it's not a flash problem, or otherwise
the fix wouldn't work. This is a problem in the wrapping html /
javascript / java, which is why it would be nice to isolate the issue.
More specifically, I think the problem code has to do with geolocating
the host, since the f
Given that this has been confirmed on many different browsers on both 32
and 64 bit systems, I think it's pretty clear that this is an issue with
flash, and thus not something we can really hope to fix ourselves.
Has anyone been in contact with adobe about this?
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It hangs for Firefox 3.0.2 on Red Hat/CentOS 4.7. I don't know how
useful that is since it's an old version of both the OS and the browser.
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Hmm. Interesting. I think it means that my theory that the problem is
due to java (and not, say java script or whatnot) is probably
inaccurate. I will try to install Jolicloud on a virtual machine and see
if that flies.
Are there any other distributions people can test? Redhat? etc?
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I don't have Java installed at all in Jolicloud on my netbook. Guess I
don't need it (yet) for what I do or where I go. I have it installed on
my desktop computer running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
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Really? If Jolicloud does it, could we test against other distros like
redhat, gentoo, etc? I suspect this has to do with the java VM. Could
you verify the versions of that?
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I am running Lucid Lynx on my desktop and it's very frustrating to not be able
to just click and watch a CBC video.
However, when I click on a CBC video on my netbook running Jolicloud (a netbook
distro based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix), it displays perfectly. What's the
difference I wonder? I'm ru
PS: I think it would be easier if I just picket CBC to fix their flash
for the Free operating systems. Why is Mac and Microsoft so flawless.
I'll have you all note while posters where complaining to adobe about
flash I was complaining to ctv, cbc, and anyone who offered flash to use
something diff
PS: I dought I'll remember my password here. I don't use numbers
normally and only use 8 digits for my bank account.
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I had this problem fixed once with freebsd. The thing I did in that
install was some settings in a file. Witch one I can't remember.
It was when I install gnome2-fifth-toe and one of the compile messages
while it compiled said to do a certain thing. I see lots of these
messages some times and cut
I finally got Tyson's method using flvstreamer to work (message #34). The trick
is to cut and paste
really fast. It would be handy to have a script for this.
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I assume that this is the wrapper: www.cbc.ca/video/swf/UberPlayer.swf
I don't know much about flash. I did a swfdump (from swftools) on it.
I got a set of warnings:
Warning: Invalid jump instruction "jump" from 60 to 143 (120)
Warning: Invalid jump instruction "jump" from 118 to 128 (125)
Warni
Thank you Tarek for identifying the source of this problem. Danguy, your
bookmarklet worked for me as well. I can watch CBC videos now. Is it possible
to create similar workaround for other cites that dont work. GlobalTV is the
one I am particularly interested in.
It really pisses me off that C
For what it's worth, you can also keep a tab open with this URL and just
add the clip ID after the =. It works for other CBC clips as well, but
you have to change the =News bit.
http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&clipid=
It bugs me as well, and undermines the credibility of the bro
This is confirmed on Karmic both 64, and 32bit systems, running Firefox,
Chromium and Opera.
This problem may be a deal breaker to a lot of people, and it definitely screws
up the experience for someone like me who uses Ubuntu exclusively.
I concur the status should be moved to high.
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Okay this problem seems to be reaching more sites. This is going to
become a show stopper for a lot of people using Ubuntu and Linux in
general unless we (and I'm sorry I don't include me in that, I'm not
that smart:-))
Can we elevate this bug to an high or urgent level please. We just
can't hav
mgl, the only workaround I found was, in Ubuntu Lucid, to install wine
1.2 + windows's firefox 3.5 + windows's flash 10. As long as you make
sure that graphics acceleration is turned off in that version of Flash
for Windows, videos on both Global and CBC work fine for me. And the
quality is surpri
This same problem seems to have struck GlobalTV.com. Check out
http://www.globaltv.com/entertainment/videos/index.html - if you try to
play any video, the same sort of issue that CBC.ca occurs. Would there
be a workaround similar to Tarek's php script that would solve this?
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danguy, your bookmarklet is great!
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I've been using this bookmarklet for a while. It takes the video you are
tying to watch at http://www.cbc.ca/video and plays it inside the
Dragons' Den player. (A few other CBC show sub-sites can work as well.)
Steps to use:
1) Create a bookmark for
javascript:(function(){var%20h=window.location.
Thanks Tarek. You rock.
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Here's a complete example. Say you missed the latest episode of the
"The Hour" and wanted to watch it.
1- You go to http://www.cbc.ca/video, view the source to get the feedPID
and surf around until you the other relevant information
feedPID=_DyE_l_gC9yXF9BvDQ4XNfcCVLS4PQij
searchterms=the,hour
s
Looks like there may be alternative solutions now, but in case anyone
cares about an update on how to download them via flvstreamer (they
changed some stuff after my previous post and I don't seem to be being
emailed updates to this thread).
1- You have to get the feedPID. Goto http://www.cbc.ca/
FWIW, someone posted a python script for watching videos from the CBC
site on reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/akfx8/handy_script_for_linux_users_who_watch_the_cbc/
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Nice workaround Tarek!
While I still use Windows for office stuff, I enjoy my amd64 laptop much
more knowing that I can use a 64 bit Adobe Flash for CBC, like I do for
BBC, MSNBC, ABC and CTV through the Ubuntu partition.
In this respect, it is not just an o/s issue - it is also a chip issue
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The customer service line is available Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm
for all timezones. It is not open on statutory holidays.
Tarek, you did an awesome job!
I brought this up on the UbuntuForums if anyone cares to add to anything
I said. http://ub
Someone should call CBC audience relations. The number is
1-866-306-4636.
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p.s., I have already emailed stating the same thing previously.
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Obviously agreed. Is somebody willing to contact CBC directly? I am
happy to help them make their code work, so feel free to volunteer me.
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I would think fixing their code so that people would go directly to
their site rather than through a wrapper would be a pretty high
priority. There is now code circulating (here and likely other places
now) that make it easy for less technical people to bypass the geo-
blocking.
Maybe your speci
The error appears to be in the java code that's wrapped around the
player and the way that it's passing (or not passing) parameters to the
player.
Incidentally, I think I know why the fix is a non-starter for the CBC:
It appears to not honour the Canada-only region blocking, which they've
obviousl
Thanks for the workaround, Tarek - that works fine. Could you please
explain what the issue is?
Maybe the CBC is able to fix their site if they're told what to do. :)
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Here's a hack for now:
http://tarek.org/cbc
Please check out the source code and disseminate widely or suggest fixes:
http://tarek.org/cbc/index.phps
Also, I've attached the file here.
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I think people should also contact the people at
http://theplatform.com/contact/ as they may not even know there is a
problem. I've tried to use http://www.rogersondemand.com/ which is
advertised to use the same company, and have only seen advertisements
(no programs).
It may be appropriate to c
Okay thats BS at best. $40 times even a conservation estimate of 15,000,000
tax payers is a LOT of money.
I guess it's time to mail some MP's
Can anyone with any pull get a story up on Slashdot?
So back to reality this is a large problem for the Linux desktop. New users
try sites and it does
Tyson: Does your system still work? When I try it, I don't get any full
URLs that can be entered. I only get:
javascript:CBC.APP.UberPlayer.playRelease('1352350803');
Entering:
http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=1352350803
gets an empty page with:
Media is not available
tarek
Wow. This is in equal parts disappointing and infuriating.
Do we have any real idea what the incompatibility is? Perhaps if we
offer a fix, that would save them the excuse of "we don't have
time/money to fix it". In the meantime, I think the best way forward is
to keep writing and to also try to c
It would not seem to be a technical problem at all
I emailed CBC on behalf of us Linux users, and I got this reply.
"Dear Paul,
We have checked with our technical staff, and unfortunately, as you point out,
the new Flash player we are installing does not work on Linux systems. However
it
d
Tyson, thanks, I'll be trying that. I'm no genius at this stuff, but
would there be a way to script/automate that?
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The same is happening to me under 32-bit Ubuntu 9.10, Firefox 3.5.5 and
Flash version 10.0.32.18.
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Ran into this same problem. One of the show specific sites had the
current episode embedded right into it though, and clicking on it
worked, so I snagged the packets and (after quite a bit of mucking
about) managed to figure out how to use flvstreamer with
"http://www.cbc.ca/video"; to view all th
I see the control buttons, but the screen is black.
Have just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04, forced install of Firefox 3.5, and
even went forward with Adobe Flash 10.1 (instead of 10.0.xx), and it
still doesn't work. I sent an email to CBC when it stopped working. I
noticed it right away (a couple mo
confirmed in Intrepid Ibex as well...
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The folks at Spark gave me the name of Jeff Ulster as someone who might
be in the right group to fix this. I've now sent him a message as well.
Will report back (or maybe Jeff will on this site).
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This bug seems to have gone from bad to worse. Initially, I could at
least see the flash site, and would not be able to see video played.
Now, I don't see anything but black. I also contacted the CBC as Russell
did.
For now, I use firefox via wine, and that works fine.
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I sent a note to CBC via http://www.cbc.ca/contact/ and pointed them to
this bug. I noted to them that other video sites (Such as ctv.ca -- a
competitor ;-) works fine. I would suspect the problem is coding
within their flash that has inadvertently become platform dependent.
This will be one of
Confirmed using Midori and Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 amd64.
The flash "Uberplayer.swf" component starts. It just doesn't show a
video. I'm inclined to call this a Flash problem, not a Firefox
problem. Flash doesn't exactly "hang" as the volume indicator still
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I just tried all sorts of user agent strings with this and it doesn't
make any difference.
These are what I tried:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20091020 Ubuntu/9.10
(karmic) Firefox/3.5.3"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3)
Gecko/200
I just tried it using Firefox 3.0.14 on an Ubuntu 8.04.3 system, using
Flash 10, and the videos on that web site didn't play. Could it be that
cbc.ca is blocking video access for people using OS not named Windows
and OSX?
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I have the same problem in Google Chrome. And using Flash 9 instead of
Flash 10 also didn't make a difference.
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If you have any extensions installed, please try again without those
enabled ('firefox -safe-mode' runs firefox without extensions)?
I have found that some extensions like NoScript implement a more strict
"same origin policy" than most other browsers, and this breaks a lot of
sites.
Or try with M
Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since
this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work,
I'm going to mark it as Triaged and let them handle it from here. Thanks
for taking the time to make Ubuntu better! Please report any other
issues you may f
I can confirm this in Jaunty and Karmic 64-bit. Setting status to
confirmed.
** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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