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Stephen Esrati
YouTube keeps stopping in both Firefox and Safari.
I'm running Firefox 3.6.10 and Safari 5.0.2 in OS 10.6.4.
How can I fix it?
I'm running Firefox 3.6.10 and Safari 5.0.2 in OS 10.6.4.
How can I fix it?
Oct. 4, 2010
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Prashant G
Try updating Flash to the latest version.
The latest version has fewer problems than the last two iterations.
Dec. 10, 2010
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Scott Brewer
I have been tasked with making a lot of qtvr panoramas for a presentation. I can make the panoramas just fine, but can't find a tool to make multinode (eg: room to room jumps) panoramas. I'd use the authoring studio, but I can't run classic, and even if I could, surely there must be an app that folks are using in 2010. Anyone know?
Dec. 11, 2010
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D Harris
to Scott Brewer:
I have made a lot of QTVR panoramas in the past and when moving to a new Mac Pro from an aging G5 I was worried that the software I had would not work under Snow Leopard. Originally I used Apple's QT Authoring Studio, but as you know, Apple left it behind with Classic. I moved to VR Worx for PPC but found that it was no better than Apple's product but at least it was PPC. Can't remember which version I had but the latest is VR Worx 2.6 and claims to be compatible with 10.5. No word about Snow Leopard compatibility. The company has not been responsive to my email and the upgrade path is over-priced in my opinion, and I have not upgraded yet.
It is really sad that there is not a lot of software out there for QTVR authoring. I did find Studio 2010 with 'Panoweaver 7' for Mac from easypano.com that sounds pretty good, but I did not find out about Snow Leopard compatibility yet. I would like to pursue this more.
Good luck and let us know how you fare.
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Todd Bangerter
Here's what I came up with for QTVR authoring tools with hotspot support:
CubicConnector
PanoLink (Windows only) - http://www.panoshow.com/panolink/index.htm
VRWorx
Panoweaver (not sure if it supports hotspot creation in QTVR)
Autodesk Stitcher
PanoLink (Windows only) - http://www.panoshow.com/panolink/index.htm
VRWorx
Panoweaver (not sure if it supports hotspot creation in QTVR)
Autodesk Stitcher
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MacInTouch Reader
Try Click Here Design's Cubic Connector (assuming you're producing cubic QTVR's). Simple and bulletproof.. I'm sure there are others, too..
http://www.clickheredesign.com.au/cubicconnector/
http://www.clickheredesign.com.au/cubicconnector/
Dec. 13, 2010
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Derk van Dorsten
I had the same problem but I found the following:
AutoPanoGiga from Kolor comes with PanoTour Pro. It does all you want and is compatible with Snow Leopard. They will come out with a standalone version of Panotour as well in the near future.
Try it, I am sure you will find it to be very good.
AutoPanoGiga from Kolor comes with PanoTour Pro. It does all you want and is compatible with Snow Leopard. They will come out with a standalone version of Panotour as well in the near future.
Try it, I am sure you will find it to be very good.
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Jeff Hirsch
In reply to the query about a replacement for Apple's now retired QTVR Studio
Autodesk's Stitcher (formerly from RealViz) is by far the highest quality and most versatile of the cubic and cylindrical QTVR stitching programs. The latest versions run perfectly under Snow Leopard. (Previous version ran fine, but had some interface display glitches.)
I use CubicConnector for linking multiple QTVR shots together. (Something QTVR Studio used to do well.)
And finally, I use CubicNavigator for fullscreen playback of the QTVR files. It uses OpenGL instead of QT for rendering and has VERY smooth motion on playback. Perfect for slideshows, kiosks, presentations, etc.
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David Rubright
STOIK PanoramaMaker is another panorama maker worth mentioning.(Mac and PC)
http://www.stoik.com/
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MacInTouch Reader
I've made quite a few panoramas over the last few years. Some of these have been QTVR projects, but a fair number of them are Flash-based. Pano2VR is still actively supported on the Mac and will do hotspots, but not multinode QTVR's. It suffices for simple work, and will export both QTVR and flash objects.
I realize that this may be heresy but many VR-ish projects created today that need multinode capability are done with Flash. Panosalado is a free papervision 3d Flash-based rig for doing VR worth looking at - and ironically enough - it has now been ported to objective C - for an upcoming iPhone/iPad product. It does support multinode VR's - and in my opinion - handles very high resolution VR's better than QTVR.
http://os.ivrpa.org/panosalado/
Dec. 21, 2010
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Rich Hartman
I have encountered what appears to be a universal problem with streaming NetFlix movies: The volume of the streamed movie is often too low, even with both volume controls set to the max (internal Netflix/Microsoft SilverLining software and the computer's system preference control). There are many, many reports of this issue across all platforms including Windows and Mac OS.
I'm not interested in earphones or external speakers; evidently something like Audio Hijack Pro can do this, but according to reports it is not a particularly cheap or convenient solution to what ought to be a pretty simple problem.
So, do any of the luminaries out there have a system-level solution? A volume gain control plist or somesuch? I realize there is a danger of resetting the gain and blowing out the internal speakers; I can live with that risk.
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MacInTouch Reader
I bought new Mac OS X 10.6.5. and installed DIVX 7.2 for Mac. When I try to download a movie Divx is stuck on Buffering 0% all the time or gives me a msg: file failed to download and can't play'. I managed to get in working once or twice but after few minutes of playing DIVX and Safari froze and had to force quit. I changed Safari to 32 bits prior to playing.
Jan. 22, 2011
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Sheryl M
Does anyone know how to tell what version of Flash is required for a website?
Our teachers need to see Flash video on pbs.org and pbskids.org. Those websites indicate that Flash version 9 and higher is needed. I've installed flash 10.1.102.64 (and checked to see that it's installed) - yet the site doesn't work.
PBS tech support tells us that Macs don't work well with their site, and have no more specifics (other than uninstall, then reinstall the latest version).
Our teachers need to see Flash video on pbs.org and pbskids.org. Those websites indicate that Flash version 9 and higher is needed. I've installed flash 10.1.102.64 (and checked to see that it's installed) - yet the site doesn't work.
PBS tech support tells us that Macs don't work well with their site, and have no more specifics (other than uninstall, then reinstall the latest version).
Jan. 24, 2011
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Stephen Hart
Sheryl M wrote:
Our teachers need to see Flash video on pbs.org and pbskids.org. Those websites indicate that Flash version 9 and higher is needed. I've installed flash 10.1.102.64 (and checked to see that it's installed) - yet the site doesn't work.
PBS tech support tells us that Macs don't work well with their site, and have no more specifics (other than uninstall, then reinstall the latest version).
PBS tech support tells us that Macs don't work well with their site, and have no more specifics (other than uninstall, then reinstall the latest version).
This is apparently wrong. I just logged into pbs.org using Flash version MAC 10,1,102,64, and Safari 5.0.3, and the video worked fine. (It was a bit slow to load, but that's par for the course.) There must be some other problem. Could there be an issue with filtering going on in the school?
Amusingly, the video I loaded began with an ad for the pbs iPad app--actually pretty much an ad for the iPad.
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Mike Viksna
Sheryl M asked:
'Does anyone know how to tell what version of Flash is required for a website (PBS)?'
PBS works fine here in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. I'm using the latest Flash from Adobe's site (version 10.2.152.14).
I'd suspect, though, that your problem may have more to do with having javascript disabled (either in browser preferences or with an extension such as NoScript), than the version of Flash you have installed.
Keeping up-to-date with Flash is more about security fixes than feature additions.
And shame on that tech support person.
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Peter Engels
Sheryl M asks:
Does anyone know how to tell what version of Flash is required for a website? Our teachers need to see Flash video on pbs.org and pbskids.org. Those websites indicate that Flash version 9 and higher is needed. I've installed flash 10.1.102.64 (and checked to see that it's installed) - yet the site doesn't work.
PBS tech support tells us that Macs don't work well with their site, and have no more specifics (other than uninstall, then reinstall the latest version).
PBS tech support tells us that Macs don't work well with their site, and have no more specifics (other than uninstall, then reinstall the latest version).
Sheryl, PBS support is clearly worthless. My Mac, which is running Flash 10.1, has no trouble running Flash videos on the pbs site, the NYTimes site, and any other site which requires Flash. I just watched a Nova program, and several videos on pbskids.org. I'm not sure what your problem is; I think we need to know what model Macs you are using, and which operating system you use.
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MacInTouch Reader
Flash fun --
1) If site says you don't have Flash, check for script blocking software in browser. In my case with Firefox 3.6.x, I have NoScript installed so I have to tell NoScript that the site is OK and then Flash works.
2) 32 bit vs 64 bit -- Newer Macs can run in 64 bit mode with Snow Leopard. Some web browsers are 32-bit and some are 64-bit. Safari and Firefox 4 betas are 64-bit. Flash now comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions -- at least in betas.
If you are running browser as a 64-bit application, you want 64-bit Flash. If running a 32-bit browser, you want 32-bit Flash.
At least one poster on Adobe site says Firefox 4 betas support 32 and 64 bit plugins as long as written in Cocoa but has trouble with Carbon.
Jan. 25, 2011
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Shaun James
The reason Flash - or any plugin - may not work is because a previous version may be installed in the library of the home folder of the user who can't view the site.
The user's home folder is where plugins and other library files are looked for first by the OS in a normally booted Mac.
Check that there is no plugin at ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins.
The full path would look like this /Users/wxyz/Library/Internet Plug-Ins. Where wxyz is the user's short name
The only place you should see plugins is in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins which is at the root of the harddrive.
The user's home folder is where plugins and other library files are looked for first by the OS in a normally booted Mac.
Check that there is no plugin at ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins.
The full path would look like this /Users/wxyz/Library/Internet Plug-Ins. Where wxyz is the user's short name
The only place you should see plugins is in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins which is at the root of the harddrive.
In a managed environment - whether managed locally on the machine or managed from a server account - you only want browser plugins in the administrative user account folder - because that is the account used to install them globally - and in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins.
One way to test when your users are having this problem, is to login to another user account which does not have administrator access and see whether you can view the site.
The checking a second account method is useful for all troubleshooting no matter what the problem.
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Bruce Young
Sheryl M asks:
'Does anyone know how to tell what version of Flash is required for a website? .. websites indicate that Flash version 9 and higher is needed. I've installed flash 10.1.102.64 ..'
Besides the possible browser add-ons which may be restricting Flash, it might also be an incompatiblity with the installed Flash. I have worked on machines that have bits of multiple versions of Flash - not good.
Go to the Adobe Flash site and download their Flash Uninstaller, run that, then download and reinstall the 10.1.102 (which is the current as of mid January).
Go to the Adobe Flash site and download their Flash Uninstaller, run that, then download and reinstall the 10.1.102 (which is the current as of mid January).
1) Uninstall
uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
2) Get, install latest
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
3) Verify what flash version is installed
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
2) Get, install latest
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
3) Verify what flash version is installed
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
It might also be worth trying a different browser, after you have done the Flash cleanup and Fresh install.
(Safari, Firefox, Camino (v2.0.6), Chrome, Opera, OmniWeb).
(Safari, Firefox, Camino (v2.0.6), Chrome, Opera, OmniWeb).
If none of this helps, there may be more substantial issues at play. And a technical support visit might be next. ;)
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Sheryl M
Re: Update on Flash - Details
The computers accessing the pbskids.org website are intel iMacs running 10.4.11
The specific part of the pbskids.org site is http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/
The specific part of the pbskids.org site is http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/
They are attempting to use the designing a cereal box lesson, which shows the message that flash is not installed on the computer. (Testing it from my MacBook, with 10.5.8 and Flash 10,1,102,64 installed).
I'm wondering what version of flash is expected here?
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Sheryl M
Re: Flash Issues
As an update, I am tech support. I have downloaded the Flash uninstaller, removed Flash, restarted, reinstalled Flash 10.1.102.64, restarted, tested to no avail. Tested under the computer admin account, tested from home on another computer (where I am the admin and different OS).
The PBS folks can't tell me which version of Flash the site was written for; the original question was -- is there anything that would tell what's needed/expected? As most of you mention, most of the site works, that advertising area / cereal boxes does not.
There are no Safari add-ons on the computer that would block scripts, and our webfilter logs do not show anything from the site that is being blocked. Looking at the source of the page doesn't give an indication as to what version of Flash is expected. Users are not admins of the computer, but have kerberos managed accounts.
I'm open to any tips!
-- TIA.
-- TIA.
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MacInTouch Reader
Re: Sheryl M's Flash issue
The problem appears to be with that PBS page's Flash version testing.
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/cerealbox_flash.html
It's looking for a version greater than 6, but the way it's parsing the version code appears to be only looking at the single digit before the first dot. So for version 10, it will see a '0' and think your version is too old.
Full disclosure, I've made this error myself; at one time Macromedia's tutorials used this same (single-digit) method of checking versions. I suppose back then nobody thought Flash would get to version 10 so soon.
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Stephen Hart
Sheryl M wrote about Flash issues with http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/.
Indeed, the cereal box game also doesn't work for me. What I see if I click that I'm sure I have Flash installed is a message that flashes (heh) by too quickly to read, followed by an empty Flash container.
I used Snapz Pro to capture a movie. Here's what the message says:
detecting Flash'please stand by
Sorry, we couldn't tell if you have Flash installed or not. Flash is required to play this game.
If you have Flash Player 6 or later installed, click here to play the game.
If you want to install Flash Player, you can download it for free.
Sorry, we couldn't tell if you have Flash installed or not. Flash is required to play this game.
If you have Flash Player 6 or later installed, click here to play the game.
If you want to install Flash Player, you can download it for free.
I can't read source, but there is a Flash Detect section. Perhaps another MacInTouch user could figure out what's going wrong there.
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Gene Woodward
The problem with the PBS website is due to poor javascript (At least on the page Sheryl M linked, http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/). It attempts to check for Flash 5 or greater, but does not account for the fact that flash 10 uses two digits for the major version number.
It checks only one digit before the '.' in '10.1', and determines that your browser has Flash version '0' installed.
For the curious, here's the offending line of javascript:
if ( plugin ) {
plugin = parseInt(plugin.description.substring(plugin.description.indexOf('.')-1)) >= 5;
}
plugin = parseInt(plugin.description.substring(plugin.description.indexOf('.')-1)) >= 5;
}
Jan. 26, 2011
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Steven Klein
For Sheryl M, having problems with the PBS website:
It's not you, it's just a terribly buggy website.
Here's a direct link to the troublesome game:
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/cerealbox.html
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/cerealbox.html
I tested on my Mac using Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. It didn't work on any of them. Then I tested on a Windows XP machine with Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. It only worked in Internet Explorer.
My Mac runs 10.6.6, with the most recent versions of Safari, Firefox, and Chrome.
The XP Machine was running the most recent versions of Safari and Firefox, and IE7.
I do note that the website carries this copyright message: '2002-04 KCTS Television.' If the code is 7 to 9 years old, I'm not surprised it's challenged by modern browsers.
KCTS does have a technical support form, and I encourage her to fill it out and request support. Here's a link:
http://kcts9.org/about/contact-us/technical-support
http://kcts9.org/about/contact-us/technical-support
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Steven Klein
An update to my previous message: The 'Don't Buy It' part of the PBS Kids website has its own feedback form here:
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/feedback.html
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/feedback.html
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Mike Viksna
Gene Woodward answered:
The problem with the PBS website is due to poor javascript (At least on the page Sheryl M linked, http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/). It attempts to check for Flash 5 or greater, but does not account for the fact that flash 10 uses two digits for the major version number.
I have to wonder how many other School sysadmins have called PBS over this issue. And how long PBS has been giving out that sorry answer about Macs being problematic. Oh, and does that mean that most PCs are running at least a version (Flash 9) behind Macs? :^)
And, I have to marvel that it took less than two days for the MacInTouch community to find the answer. Tip of the hat to Gene Woodward and 'MacInTouch Reader'.
Perhaps PBS should read MacInTouch?
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David Ryeburn
It's nothing new for PBS to look at Flash 10 and think that 10 is not more than 5. This must be a problem with the broadcast industry. The on-line version of the CBS 60 Minutes program did this for about a year; full screen viewing was impossible since our Flash version was supposedly too early, but the partial screen version could be viewed. Numerous complaints met with no response, but eventually they fixed it. In the meantime I left one of our computers at Flash 9 (they thought that 9 *was* greater than 5) so we could view the program, full screen, on that computer.
Maybe in a year or so PBS will wake up too. In the meantime, if your are willing to risk the security problems with Flash 9, use the Adobe Flash Uninstaller to uninstall Flash 10 and then install Flash 9, the most advanced version of which can be found if you probe around enough at Adobe.
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MacInTouch Reader
Re: Sheryl M's Flash issue
I Tried PBS Kids With Safari on 10.4.11 and 10.5.4. I tried it using Safari, Firefox, Chrome and I.E. 8 on Windows XP and Windows 7.
PBS Kids *only* works with I.E.
Which would lead me to conclude that they are only testing it with I.E.
Perhaps a temporary downgrade to Flash 9?
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Sheryl M
Re: Flash
Stephen and Gene [et al] - you guys are awesome. I may copy and paste your comments to the webmaster / programmer of the pbskids.org site in hopes he'll edit that bit of code and make those items usable. A big THANKS!
Jan. 27, 2011
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MacInTouch Reader
David Ryeburn wrote:
'It's nothing new for PBS to look at Flash 10 and think that 10 is not more than 5. This must be a problem with the broadcast industry. The on-line version of the CBS 60 Minutes program did this for about a year;'
This isn't just a broadcast issue or a Flash issue. You may recall some 6 months ago when iTunes 10 was released and it broke all their Automator actions, specifically because they had the version number of 4.6 and Automator or iTunes (whichever one) was comparing that to 10 incorrectly.
Jan. 31, 2011
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David Biddix
I'm having issues watching videos on cbs.com. When I select a video to watch and load it, I get the following message:
'The video you have requested is either unavailable or is being blocked by an ad blocker installed in your browser.'
This happens for every video on the site. I'm using Safari 5 mostly, but I get the same message in Opera, Firefox, and Chrome.
I do not have any ad blocking software installed on my computer. I did upgrade to OS X 10.6.6 recently, but I have made not other changes.
I have downloaded and re-installed Silverlight and Flash 10 players to no avail.
Is anyone else having this trouble and have a workaround to solve it?
Thank you!
Feb. 1, 2011
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MacInTouch Reader
David Biddix writes about not being able to watch videos on cbs.com due to ad blocking software. I've received the same message, but I can usually watch the videos in a different browser. It sounds like you tried that to no avail, but it has worked for me.
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Gregory Tetrault
David Biddix said:
I'm having issues watching videos on cbs.com. When I select a video to watch and load it, I get the following message:'The video you have requested is either unavailable or is being blocked by an ad blocker installed in your browser.'
Do you have JavaScript enabled in your web browsers? I tried watching a CBS video with both Safari 5.0.2 and Firefox 3.6.11 and got a message that I needed to upgrade to Adobe Flash Player version 9. Since I have version 10.1, the message made no sense. In Firefox, I was using NoScript. In Safari, I had JavaScript turned off. When I enabled JavaScript in both browsers, the videos played.
I suspect that the site uses JavaScript to check the Adobe Flash Player version and is generating inappropriate error messages when JavaScript cannot run.
Feb. 2, 2011
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MacInTouch Reader
Re:
'I'm having issues watching videos on cbs.com. When I select a video to watch and load it, I get the following message:
'The video you have requested is either unavailable or is being blocked by an ad blocker installed in your browser.' '
'The video you have requested is either unavailable or is being blocked by an ad blocker installed in your browser.' '
It seems as though you are using Little Snitch. In Little Snitch configuration allow connections to the following WebKitPluginHost ports:
1935 (macromedia-fcs) of cp48590.edgefcs.net
443 (https) of cp48590.edgefcs.net
80 (http) of cp48590.edgefcs.net
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Steve Chambers
I have had similar issues, and on my system it came down to the blocklist I had set up in my hosts file that I got from here, http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html, which is just a list of common ad servers that are redirected to nowhere.
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Have you done something like that and forgotten about it? That happened to me a while back, and when I remembered what I had done I also remembered I had saved the original OS X hosts file as /etc/hosts~orig.
All you then have to do is
mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts-adblock
And then
mv /etc/hosts~orig /etc/hosts
And then
mv /etc/hosts~orig /etc/hosts
then just flush the DNS cache
dscacheutil -flushcache
dscacheutil -flushcache
and try that site again.
Feb. 3, 2011
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MacInTouch Reader
The site Steve Chambers references - http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html- is quite dead. Does anyone know of a suitable substitute?
[See Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File at mvps.org. -MacInTouch]
Feb. 4, 2011
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David Charlap
Blocking sites using a hosts file works, but it can have adverse side effects. I've found that some sites will hang for minutes if their ads are blocked in this fashion. It appears that they use scripts to load ad content, and the scripts block the entire page (until some timeout) when they fail to connect to the server.
One workaround for this is to run a local web server. Now, all those requests for ads will be answered with '404' errors instead of failed connections. This helps quite a bit.
Using the hosts file, however, will not help if the ads are served by the same server as your legitimate content. To block those kinds of ads, you need to inspect other parts of the URL. This is most easily done using a browser add-on like AdBlock Plus in Firefox.
If a suitable add-on is not available, you can also use a Proxy auto-config file to do the blocking. It is a JavaScript that filters all URLs. For URLs you want to block, redirect it to a proxy at 127.0.0.1 (where you will want to be running a web server, for the reason I mentioned above) and for everything else, use DIRECT or your pre-existing proxy configuration. Even if you only want to block by hostname, this has the advantage (over a hosts file) that it only affects web traffic, not all network communication.
Back in 2005, I wrote an article about using PAC files to block ads. You may find it here.
Feb. 17, 2011
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HJ Jost
Tonight I am experiencing a weird problem with youtube: only a black frame loads instead of the video.. looks like the player does not load, but the rest of the page looks as expected. However, at work with the same version of Safari, I can watch the videos. Not sure if this is a youtube, a Safari or comcast problem. On a second comcast line, same problem though.
Safari 5.0.3, MacOS 10.6.6
ISP: Comcast
ISP: Comcast
Anyone else?
Feb. 18, 2011
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Geoff Strickler
HJ Jost wrote:
'Tonight I am experiencing a weird problem with youtube: only a black frame loads instead of the video.. looks like the player does not load, but the rest of the page looks as expected. However, at work with the same version of Safari, I can watch the videos. Not sure if this is a youtube, a Safari or comcast problem. On a second comcast line, same problem though.'
I had the same problem last night, but it was intermittent. Some videos played, others wouldn't. I was using Chrome (current) on Mac OS 10.6.4. I don't have the Flash Player plug-in installed on my machine, so anything that requires Flash I either skip, or if I really want/need it, open in Chrome (which now has Flash Player built-in). I don't know if it's a YouTube issue, or something in Flash 10.2.
Feb. 19, 2011
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Richard Velasco
In case you downloaded the latest flash player (10,2,152,26) try control/right click options on the video area and uncheck video acceleration. Reload the page and see if the video works. I noticed the same issue with some videos (including some that make use of the experimental 3D support).
Feb. 22, 2011
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Dear MacInTouch Team,
On Feb. 17, 2011 HJ Jost wrote:
'Tonight I am experiencing a weird problem with youtube: only a black frame loads instead of the video.. looks like the player does not load, but the rest of the page looks as expected. However, at work with the same version of Safari, I can watch the videos. Not sure if this is a youtube, a Safari or comcast problem. On a second comcast line, same problem though'
I had the same problem. I went through several forum threads, and eventually I found this one:
Topic : YouTube black screen on a Mac..
Topic : YouTube black screen on a Mac..
Ron (alias Applebike) advice helped me to solve the problem:
'Try 'get info' on Safari (when closed) and click on 'use 32 bit mode'
Best regards
Mar. 3, 2011
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Walter Ian Kaye
How can I download video from Facebook or YouTube? I just tried WonderShare AllMyTube, but on YouTube it says 'download failed' and on Facebook nothing happens.
(I'm also nervous that it wanted an admin password for the webpage sniffer to work, though I found no malware warnings online.
(I'm also nervous that it wanted an admin password for the webpage sniffer to work, though I found no malware warnings online.
Is there a tool that actually works? (This is on PowerPC and Tiger.)
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C. Alexander Cohen
As regards downloading video, if you are using Firefox, you might try the plug-ins Video Download Helper or FlashGot.
Mar. 4, 2011
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Lawrence Rhodes
Walter Ian Kaye asks how to download YouTube video on Tiger/PPC. The way I do it is straightforward, if a bit messy. Anything you watch that is not streaming video is already downloaded to a file on your hard drive. For Flash video, like YouTube (I haven't tried the HTML 5 setting), you can find it in /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/ (501 is the first user, use a different number if that isn't you) with a name like Flashtmp0 (or ..tmp1, tmp2, etc. depending on the opening history). It will be deleted from that folder when you close the page, or sometimes when it finishes playing. So once it is completely downloaded (not necessarily played) you just drag it to a different folder, like Movies. It will continue to play from there but it will not be deleted.
I recommend renaming the file (extension .flv, usually) so you can remember what it is, though once you do that it won't play in your browser any more. But it will then play much more smoothly in QuickTime Player if you've installed Perian, which is vastly superior to the PPC Flash plugin (faint praise, I know).
I recommend renaming the file (extension .flv, usually) so you can remember what it is, though once you do that it won't play in your browser any more. But it will then play much more smoothly in QuickTime Player if you've installed Perian, which is vastly superior to the PPC Flash plugin (faint praise, I know).
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Gregory Tetrault
Walter Ian Kaye asks:
'How can I download video from Facebook or YouTube?'
Here's how to do it in Firefox.
1. Watch a YouTube or other Flash video.
2. Navigate to the cache folder: ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/[weirdname].default/Cache/ (If you frequently download videos, you can put an alias to this folder on your desktop or other convenient location.)
3. Sort the Cache folder by Date Created with most recent on top.
4. The topmost file should be the video. (If you watched at 360p, the file size will be 3-4 MB per minute of video.)
5. Rename the file to 'YourDesiredName.flv' and move it to whatever folder you wish.
If you know how to use AppleScript or Automator, you can create a workflow that will act on the selected cache file, complete steps 4-5, and perform whatever conversion or extraction you wish.
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MacInTouch Reader
As already mentioned, if you're using Firefox, a number of extensions can get the job of capturing video done most of the time. In some instances, though, I haven't found anything that works.
But there is a somewhat convoluted workaround that has when the extensions have failed. Videos are generally buffered in the Firefox cache (/Users/your account/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/your profile/Cache). If you monitor that Cache folder sorted in date order as you start to watch the video, you'll probably see a current cache file that's pretty big compared to others around it (but not the _CACHE_001 etc. files). Copy that cache file to the desktop (option-drag) and use VLC Media Player to open it.
All bets are off with Firefox 4 since it appears to use a different cache file structure. It may still be possible but I haven't spent any time trying to figure it out.
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MacInTouch Reader
Walter Ian Kaye asks, 'How can I download video from Facebook or YouTube? … (This is on PowerPC and Tiger.)'
For YouTube, I've had luck with MacTubes, which appears to like PPC and Tiger.
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Clair Judas
If you are using Safari for your web browser, you can useCosmoPod to capture the video at YouTube. Don't know about Facebook.
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Ted Burger
I have used the free MacTubes for a long time from Tiger to Snow Leopard.
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Roger S. Cohen
Walter Ian wants to download video from Facebook or YouTube.
I use Firefox as my default browser, and use Download Helper to download videos, music tracks, etc. It works great. The new version also does conversions, for example, from .flv to .mp4
(Required disclaimer: Don't steal copyrighted material.)
Mar. 5, 2011
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Mike Riordan
Here's another way: Quicktime Player 10.0 has an option for recording the screen. Set the screen recording up; in your video window click on full screen. When done, press Esc and then Stop Recording. This will give you a very good video that is editable in iMovie. The only problem is that the audio is problematic. The solution I use is to record the audio seperately and marry it up in iMovie.
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Max Esquivel
I use RealPlayer, which offers an option to activate something called RealPlayer Downloader. When you open a page in the browser that has a video on it, the app automatically starts up and offers the possibility to download the video to a predefined location on your drive. I then watch the videos at leisure using VLC. I think that this works only with flash video, but you can always right click on an H.264 video on You Tube and select the option to 'Load Flash'.
From the RealPlayer Online Help:
'When you install RealPlayer, you have the option to add the RealPlayer Downloader agent to your Login items. The agent looks for downloadable content while you are viewing web pages.'
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James Poulakos
Walter Ian Kaye asked for suggestions: how to download a video from a site like YouTube?
If the goal is to keep the video, long-term, then maybe it's not downloading you should do, but video capturing from the screen. It won't do you much good to save Flash videos if your next Mac doesn't support Flash, for example (my iPad doesn't). I'd save the video to a QuickTime movie.
I once used Download Helper to save some YouTubes of a band so old they'll probably never tour again.. but the copyright owner kept taking the vids down, quickly. So I tried saving a few. They worked for a while, then, later, something changed in Flash, and they would only open in VLC, if at all. I think I deleted them. I should have saved them to some video format that's more likely to remain unchanged for a long time.
I've used Snapz Pro X, iShowU and a few other video capturing apps that capture what's on my screen (audio, too). My favorite is iShowU, but I haven't tried them all. iShowU suits my needs. I can choose frame rate, output file time, lots of options.. I can even tell it when to stop capturing, so that I need not babysit it just to press a stop button onscreen.
BTW, that reminds me: the new Thunderbolt protocol will also connect future Mac displays to their computers.. and I bet they'll make it hard or impossible to use screen capturing software, so, enjoy it while you've got it, folks. Macs are moving toward a display cable standard that enables video and audio to be encrypted before it ever touches a cable on the way out of your computers. ('They' being Apple and/or Intel, I'm guessing).
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A Kaleberg
Another way to muck about with the Firefox cache is to use the URL: about:cache
It lets you see the URLs and other information about recently downloaded data. It can be a bit obscure, but you can search for the hostname and look for something with the right size, download date and media type. On the plus side, it will probably work with Firefox 4.
There are a few other 'about' options, including about:config, for those who want to tweak internal options. For example, if you want to turn off GIF animation, you can set image.animation_mode to 'none'. You can also get yourself hopelessly wedged, so this is strictly for dials and buttons fans.
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S Bowen
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Ken K
Walter Ian Kaye asks how to download YouTube video on Tiger/PPC.
By far the easiest way I know of is to download RealPlayer. (I have v. 12.) Open the 'RealPlayer Downloader' app that comes as part of the package. Leave it open in the background. Then in Safari, perhaps Firefox as well, go to any page that has a Flash video. RealPlayer Downloader will detect this and allow you to download it with a single click. It will even preserve the original YouTube name.
Dunno if this works for Fakebook.
Mar. 7, 2011
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Ken Spencer
I am a big fan of Snapz Pro X. It seems a bit pricey for the movie capture version, but it does capture both video and audio, and saves it as a Quicktime file. You can define just the area on the screen you want to capture.
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Phil Royer
Re: grabbing video from the Internet -
Play the video in Safari; while it's playing, open the 'Activity' Window. It will list everything that Safari is downloading; you should be able to tell which file is the video file .. probably the biggest, probably near the bottom.
Option-click the entry in the activity window and it will download the movie to your computer.
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Bruce Klutchko
Mike Riordan said
'The only problem is that the audio is problematic. The solution I use is to record the audio seperately and marry it up in iMovie.'
An easier way is to install the freeware Soundflower. Direct the output of the video player to Soundflower. In Quicktime X, record the audio from Soundflower while it records the video. It is free and easy to do this.
Mar. 14, 2011
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Sugi Fox
I have OS 10.6.6 with all updates installed on my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro; and Safari 5.0.4, Chrome 10.0.648.133, and Firefox 3.6.15 installed. Trying to watch videos on bbc.co.uk turns out to be impossible on all browsers; there is just a black space. Youtube works. This reminded me that my son was complaining for some time that playing video on some sites just doesn't work. What can be the reason for this?
Thanks.
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Bernard Harte
The BBC uses flash for browser based video, so I would suspect that you need to download the latest version from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
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MacInTouch Reader
Sugi Fox asked:
'I have OS 10.6.6 with all updates installed on my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro; and Safari 5.0.4, Chrome 10.0.648.133, and Firefox 3.6.15 installed. Trying to watch videos on bbc.co.uk turns out to be impossible on all browsers; there is just a black space. Youtube works. This reminded me that my son was complaining for some time that playing video on some sites just doesn't work. What can be the reason for this?'
The difference is the BBC website is unfortunately using Adobe Flash with no other alternatives available for their video content. It shows up as a black box for me as well, using all the latest browsers and operating system updates as you are. I'm using the latest Flash release version, 10.2.152.33. I also cannot get Comcast's Flash videos to play, but in their case I just get the spinning cog wheel design, spinning ad infinitum.
I know this isn't the advice you're requesting, and I'd be interested in learning of an actual solution myself, but I've learned to give up on this particular issue. This has been going on for a very long time, in my case. Flash isn't fully supported on Mac OS X, and both Adobe and Apple share the blame on this. Apple despises Flash, saying it is not a secure medium and buggy (which is true) and Adobe isn't interested in really supporting Macs (as evidenced by their paltry support for all their products). Some Flash videos work, others don't, depending on the web site and how they implement them. Apple and Adobe aren't interested in actually solving the issue, choosing instead to point fingers of blame at each other.
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If I really, really need to see a Flash video that won't load on Mac OS X, I 'Boot Camp' into Windows 7 and view it quickly with no issues. Sad commentary, I know, but true.
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Sugi Fox noted a problem with OS 10.6.6 and Safari and other browsers at www.bbc.co.uk.
I am using both an iMac 8,1 2.4GHz dual core, and a MacBookPro 5,5 2.26 dual core both with current 10.6.6 and stock memory and Safari 5.04 and all is well and plays correctly on the bbc site, so not sure what the problem might be. I don't use Firefox or Chrome, since Safari does all I want and need.
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Mar. 15, 2011
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J Thorns
I kept getting a black screen with the message 'An error has occurred'. Once I deleted the YouTube cookie and let it set a new one, the videos came thru.
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Benjamin Wilkes
BBC video doesn't work in the U.S. for the simple reason that the BBC is funded by British taxpayers, who understandably don't wish to pay to license content for others to consume.
You will, in the near future, be able to subscribe to BBC shows through their iPlayer, which is coming first as an iPad app. It's already available in Britain and is expected to cost <$10 per month when it debuts in the U.S.
In the mean time, you can try a web proxy in the U.K., which are usually too slow to make the effort worthwhile, or settle for the reruns on BBC America.
You will, in the near future, be able to subscribe to BBC shows through their iPlayer, which is coming first as an iPad app. It's already available in Britain and is expected to cost <$10 per month when it debuts in the U.S.
In the mean time, you can try a web proxy in the U.K., which are usually too slow to make the effort worthwhile, or settle for the reruns on BBC America.
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Danni L
Check the permissions on ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player, and/or make sure that folder isn't locked.
I had the same problem with some sites for quite a while. Then I stumbled across an old hint I'd saved which had recommended elevating the permissions on that folder to avoid ending up with Flash Cookies. Seems that some sites won't play the video unless you let them write the cookies.. Now I use a cookie manager.
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Patrick T Kent
BBC doesn't allow connection to video streams from Australian connections. Perhaps that applies to wherever you are also.
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Ian Kennedy
Given that the BBC iPlayer works on the iPhone, Flash cannot possibly be the only method that they support.
Mar. 16, 2011
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James Dwyer
Re:
'BBC video doesn't work in the U.S. for the simple reason that the BBC is funded by British taxpayers, who understandably don't wish to pay to license content for others to consume.'
I doubt that the taxpayers played a very active role in this decision, but it is a perplexing question of licensing for specific markets and affects even satellite decoding equipment across European borders. (You may need a UK address or bank account to get permission to decode British satellite pay-TV programming in France or Germany, for example, regardless of your willingness to pay. This is a variation of the 'proxy' solution!)
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U.S. TV is generally not easily available outside the country either. This applies for most countries due to restrictions imposed by the licensors of the intellectual property, who offer exclusive licenses for market-variable fees.
Let's point fingers at the owners of the licensing rights, not the taxpayers!
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Gregory Tetrault
Benjamin Wilkes said:
'BBC video doesn't work in the U.S..'
I had no trouble viewing BBC videos with Firefox. I connect to the internet via HughesNet satellite.
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James Chastney
The BBC iplayer for the iPhone uses a form of mpeg4 to stream to your iOS device instead of Flash as per desktop apps. On iOS devices you must be on a WiFi network, watch for TV - most shows within 7 days when shown and in the U.K.
But you can dowloaded this iOS stream to your desktop by using this free program: iPlayer Downloader.
[The iPlayer website notes the system requirements quoted below. -MacInTouch]
'Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later and you must be in the UK otherwise the application won’t be able to download anything. You also require an Intel-based Mac.'
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Sugi Fox
Thanks, all, for the comments. True, I have pref>macromedia closed to protect myself from these special cookies. I'll try elevating the permissions. By the way, I'm located in Austria, Europe.
Mar. 17, 2011
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Fred Stratton
Dr Tetrault can receive BBC broadcasts via satellite because that is the method used for internet access by residents of the Outer Islands.
He should probably wear a kilt whilst viewing.
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Travis Butler
Re:
'Let's point fingers at the owners of the licensing rights, not the taxpayers!'
How about 'the people who foot the bills for production costs,' instead? And maybe admit that they might have a point?
Stuff doesn't get made unless someone puts up the money to do it. No money, no new stuff.
The British public pays in large part for the production of BBC programming, through fees paid on TV ownership. I know I'd be miffed in that situation if other people were watching those shows for free and not contributing anything to the cost of production; more contributions means either more stuff can be made, or a reduction in the part of the bill borne by the British public.
Likewise, people in the US pay for broadcast TV indirectly through commercials, or cable TV directly through subscriptions. Those 'exclusive licenses for market-variable fees' are how producers get people who don't watch commercials or have cable TV subscriptions to pay their share of the costs.
Now, you can certainly argue about whether such arrangements are set up fairly, whether producers are gouging consumers to make unreasonable profits, etc. And there's certainly fertile grounds for debate on whether the current international system of licensing is too byzantine and complex. But in the end, the core issues remain: stuff costs money to make, and to be fair those costs should be shared between all the people who enjoy the stuff.
Mar. 18, 2011
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Victor Leuci
Video coverage on BBC website: the BBC discussed this a while back on their website where they explained that some video coverage on their website henceforth would be UK only, and this is what I experience -- when I click on certain video clips I get the message that they are viewable only in the UK (I have Click to Flash enabled on my browser), but quite a bit is still viewable in the US.
Mar. 19, 2011
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MacInTouch Reader
You've been able to get BBC videos to play on a Mac? I've never been able to get them to play, in either Firefox or Safari, no matter what I do. On the other hand, they play with no problems in Win7 running in VMware Fusion on the same Mac, with the same network connection. I believe the BBC admitted once that there was some problem with their videos related to the Mac's Flash plugin.
I have this problem on other sites too: some videos play, but many won't on the Mac side. I've tried tweaking my Flash player settings but usually, in those situations, I can't even get the settings to stick. I think Steve Jobs was right when he said (in effect) that Flash on the Mac is crap.
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Bernard Harte
Re:
Let's point fingers at the owners of the licensing rights, not the taxpayers!
All who own a TV or radio in the UK pay an annual licence fee that directly funds the BBC. That is the principal reason for it not being readily (legally) available outside our national boundaries. It also means that we enjoy commercial-free broadcasting.
Of course, the BBC sells (rights to) its programming to other broadcasters around the world and this revenue is ploughed-back (thereby keeping the cost of licences down).
There is, therefore, a matter of rights management involved - otherwise who would buy the programming - but in my opinion it's more a matter of those of us who pay getting what we've paid for.
Blocking access across borders by other broadcasters that are not funded in the (so far as I know unique) manner of the BBC is at the behest of the programme rights owners is is solely an issue of licensing those rights.
For anyone who's interested, the current licence fee is around ?145, or approximately US$230, per household per year.
Mar. 21, 2011
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James Dwyer
Re:
'Blocking access across borders by other broadcasters that are not funded in the (so far as I know unique) manner of the BBC is at the behest of the programme rights owners is is solely an issue of licensing those rights.'
This sort of funding is not unique to the BBC, but is found in several European countries with traditionally public- (state-) owned broadcasting, e.g., Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and it applies in some to any use of a radio, TV, or computer with (potential) internet connection.
My point was more that programming not originating within the BBC (BBC would have licensing control over their own productions, I assume) is purchased by BBC with a limited license for re-broadcast to only their legal viewers, keeping their purchase costs of 'out-sourced' programming in relationship to their viewership.
I am confident this plays a larger role than whether BBC viewers feel they get what they pay for.
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Edouard Kestemont
I use Safari and all BBC flash video on www.bbc.co.uk play correctly (Safari 5.0.4, Mac OS X 10.6.6 MacBook Pro 15' (2006) 3GB RAM)
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Dimmer FJ
Of course, you can set your browser to use a UK-based proxy server to watch BBC content.
But before you do decide it's OK to steal, check out the 3:30 mark at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGKBEjY8dHQ
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MacInTouch Reader
There is a lot of confusion about BBC videos here.
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Many BBC videos (news especially) play quite happily on the Mac anywhere in the world, with local advertising preceding the video as you would expect. If they are not permitted in your area then the error message is quite obvious ('this video cannot be played in your area').
BBC TV programmes on the iPlayer cannot be watched legitimately outside of the UK (or by anyone who has not paid the TV licensing fee).
The BBC is effectively funded completely by the taxpayer, through the licensing fee, and thus the BBC is not permitted to make its programming available to people who do not pay that licensing fee (this is a rule set by the government on behalf of taxpayers). Anyone viewing BBC content overseas is paying the BBC for that content in one way or another (through cable company to BBC America to BBC Worldwide to the BBC; or through PBS; or through iTunes).
In effect the owner of the licensing rights is the taxpayer.
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Sugi Fox
To the commenter unable to view BBC videos: I resolved my issue by again allowing Flash (by lowering the permissions to read/write) to write to ~/library/preferences/macromedia.
Some time ago I had elevated permissions for this folder as to prevent tracking cookies being set. Now I must run Flush at shutdown to delete them.
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Graham Needham
Re:
All who own a TV or radio in the UK pay an annual licence fee that directly funds the BBC.
-- This is not strictly true. It is legal to own a TV in the UK and not pay the fee as long as you don't watch actual 'broadcast' TV - i.e. you only use the TV to view content on 'original' pre-recorded VHS/Laserdisc/DVD/Blu-Ray and/or play video games. See What if a TV Licence is not needed
Blocking access across borders by other broadcasters that are not funded in the (so far as I know unique) manner of the BBC is at the behest of the programme rights owners is is solely an issue of licensing those rights.
-- The problem with this 'blanket' approach is that I do pay my TV licence fee being domiciled in the UK but I visit Prague in the Czech Republic regularly (business and pleasure), and when I am there I cannot use iPlayer or watch most BBC video content online, yet I've paid for it.
I'm not sure whethere it's still true but years ago there were issues for UK residents and fee payers who were on AOL accounts/ISP and their IP ranges were effectively in the USA and they were blocked from BBC online videos.
There's got to be a better way than the current system, especially when I'm paying for it!
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Graham Needham
..Oh and don't forget the BBC iPlayer originally only worked on Windows leaving out anyone on a 'minority' platform even if they were in the UK and paid their licence fee. And there was originally no plan in place to bring it to any other platform.
This decision was only reversed when word got around (thankyou internet) and via public consultation the BBC Trust got the BBC to make sure they used technology that was as platform independent as possible thus making it possible to get iPlayer for other platforms like the Mac.
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I have no problem whatsoever playing BBC videos on my '09 MacBook Pro. Just spent the last 15 minutes exploring the site, and every video I looked at played normally.
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