My recollection is that the BBC video is restricted to UK residents only
(by IP address). Yours indicates you are in the US. So, no BBC video for
you!
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Are you using NoScript? I had to allow bbcimg.co.uk to get the video to
play, but other than that I have no problems. (WinXP, FF 3.6.6, Quick
Start disabled on FF only.) I can't think of anything else that might be
causing you trouble.
Dave
> I originally had a problem whereby FF 3.6.6 froze when I encountered
> pages with embedded videos. I turned off Java Quick Start, and it seems
> to have solved the freezing problem, but I still can't watch BBC videos
> (such as http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10520809.stm).
> CNN videos work fine.
I don't have Java Quick Start and the BBC-vids do fine over here (Fx
3.6.6) They're Flash, aren't they? No Java is needed.
Do you have the latest version of Flash (10.1.53.64) installed?
<http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/>
If not, uninstall the current version with this tool:
<http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html>
Reboot and install the latest version.
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this is all I see:
http://screencast.com/t/Yzk0ODc3
I live in the U.S. and was able to view the BBC video link he posted a
day or two ago.
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Restorm wrote:
>>>> I originally had a problem whereby FF 3.6.6 froze when ...
>>
>> My recollection is that the BBC video is restricted to UK residents
>> only (by IP address). Yours indicates you are in the US. So, no BBC
>> video for you!
>
> I live in the U.S. and was able to view the BBC video link he posted
> a day or two ago.
What can I say?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7459669.stm
"Cannot play media. Sorry, this media is not available in your
territory." -- right under the block with that round red thing on it.
Some other videos there show a 'first slide' with a spinning loader
symbol, and don't do anything else.
That's their news channel. As someone else stated, that's different
from regular videos posted on their site, which have no such restriction.
> Some other videos there show a 'first slide' with a spinning loader
> symbol, and don't do anything else.
Works here - what can I say?
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Tarkus wrote:
>>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>>>> Restorm wrote:
>>>>>>> I originally had a problem whereby FF 3.6.6 froze when ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My recollection is that the BBC video is restricted to UK
>>>>>> residents only (by IP address). Yours indicates you are in the
>>>>>> US. So, no BBC video for you!
>>>>
>>>> I live in the U.S. and was able to view the BBC video link he
>>>> posted a day or two ago.
>>
>> What can I say?
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7459669.stm "Cannot play media.
>> Sorry, this media is not available in your territory." -- right
>> under the block with that round red thing on it.
>
> That's their news channel. As someone else stated, that's different
> from regular videos posted on their site, which have no such
> restriction.
The OP's link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10520809.stm
is also "their news channel."
>> Some other videos there show a 'first slide' with a spinning loader
>> symbol, and don't do anything else.
>
> Works here - what can I say?
You're special, I suppose. Or maybe they don't like RoadRunner IP
addresses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/7277283.stm#rights
"I'm outside the UK, why can't I access some clips?"
His original BBC link was to a video, which wouldn't play for him, but
didn't give that message. I didn't try the latest link until you told
me about that message, just to see for myself.
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Tarkus wrote:
>>> > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
<some trimming is in order>
>>>> That's their news channel. As someone else stated, that's
>>>> different from regular videos posted on their site, which have no
>>>> such restriction.
>>
>> The OP's link:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10520809.stm
>> is also "their news channel."
>
> His original BBC link was to a video, which wouldn't play for him,
> but didn't give that message. I didn't try the latest link until you
> told me about that message, just to see for myself.
Hmm? I copied (above) Restorm's link (the 10520809.stm page) directly
from his original post.
Message-ID: <QuSdnZVhg5mX7a7R...@mozilla.org>
..and it won't play for me.
Since you say it will play for you, we'll just have to stop trying to
figure it out...
The video I was thinking of was actually from another link (about the
kid coming home), but the one above also works for me:
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3110/stokesricardofullerrebu.png
And I'm not saying we should try to stop figuring it out, just because
it works for me. I'm only saying that it suggests there's something
wrong besides 3.6.6 itself.
Note that this link actually SAYS "BBC News Channel":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7459669.stm
Note that the link also includes /uk_news/ while the other one contains
/world/us_and_canada/ instead.
That would have been my thought as well -- especially since the two
above links are the same (if it matters) up through:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ ...
BTW, I get the same results in other browsers.
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Don't have any answers, just a couple of results. Videos work just fine
for me at /world/us site in FF 3.6.6 but are blocked on the uk_news site.
As I said before, I get either the warning that I'm not in their
territory, or the first frame of the video shows up with that little
spinning "loading" doodad but nothing ever happens after that. Yes, in
all my browsers ... Firefox, Opera, SeaMonkey (the ones I have on this
computer). So no, it just stalls; nothing is downloading evidenced by my
router and firewall.
If it happens to you on all browsers, that makes me think it could be an
ISP issue. Perhaps something in their DNS lookup.
Are you using a modified hosts file?
Storm, can you play other BBC news vids OK?
Dave Pyles
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Restorm wrote:
>>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>>>> BTW, I get the same results in other browsers.
>>>>>>
>>>> Same results meaning endless downloads?
>>
>> As I said before, I get either the warning that I'm not in their
>> territory, or the first frame of the video shows up with that little
>> spinning "loading" doodad but nothing ever happens after that. Yes,
>> in all my browsers ... Firefox, Opera, SeaMonkey (the ones I have on
>> this computer). So no, it just stalls; nothing is downloading
>> evidenced by my router and firewall.
>
> If it happens to you on all browsers, that makes me think it could be
> an ISP issue. Perhaps something in their DNS lookup.
I would seriously doubt that a DNS issue would permit me to see
everything else on a BBC page except a video that comes from the same
server.
Here is what I see on the OP's original link. Note the little white dots
on the red-hatted man's left arm. They are the spinning animated
"loading" doodad -- which sits there and spins as long as the page is
open, but with nothing happening.
http://tekrider.net/usenet/jamaica.jpg
> Are you using a modified hosts file?
Yes, but it is short and of my own authorship, and there is nothing in
it remotely connected to the BBC. But since you suggested it, I renamed
it and tried again -- same result.
It was a shot in the dark, but sometimes different parts of pages
(especially videos) come from different domains than the main domain.
I started with TB 1.0 and FF 1.0 and have used the same profiles ever
since. I use a number of add-ons, so I would say that the profiles are
quite robust! :-)
Telling someone to create a new profile is like telling them to reboot
their Windows computer. --it's what you do.
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and the eyesight to tell the difference.
I've been using FF and TB for years, on several computers, and the only
time I ever created a new profile is when I did a clean install of
Windows 7, and that was only by choice. My profiles were so old, I
figured it would be a good time to start over, but there were no obvious
problems with my old profiles.
BBC videos have recently started requiring the setting of Flash LSOs. If
you have these blocked - no video. (eg: BetterPrivacy Firefox addon or
flashblock.bat or other way of preventing LSOs being set. All will break
BBC news videos and iPlayer)
Their explanation here. I have been in correspondence with them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/06/lso_flash_cookies_and_media_pl.html
It's supposed to be temporary
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>BBC videos have recently started requiring the setting of Flash LSOs. If
>you have these blocked - no video. (eg: BetterPrivacy Firefox addon or
>flashblock.bat or other way of preventing LSOs being set. All will break
>BBC news videos and iPlayer)
>
>Their explanation here. I have been in correspondence with them.
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/06/lso_flash_cookies_and_media_pl.html
>
>It's supposed to be temporary
I have Better Privacy enabled in its default mode--in which it deletes all
LSOs when I close Firefox. This hasn't yet prevented me from watching BBC
video--whether presented via http://news.bbc.co.uk or via
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/. (I'm in the UK, mind you.)
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Thanks for passing this information on. I changed my Flash
settings to allow third-parties to store data, and BBC
videos are working.
Louise
The flashblock.bat I mentioned is different to the FF addon. It prevents
the setting of LSO's whereas "flashblock" addon merely prevents flash
videos running without active consent.
So flashblock.bat does break BBC videos. But flashblock addon merely
requires you to give active consent.
Help > Check for Updates
will probably update now to 3.6.7 (did for me) though they are probably
just security updates, but a lot of people have been complaining Flash video.
Might be a possibility something got changed for none security problems.
Be nice to know if someone's problems got solved.
From the Fx 3.6.7 release notes:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20status1.9.2%3A.7-fixed,.5-fixed
I count something like 126 separate changes, most of them bug fixes.
You should definitely update.
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