[Wylug-discuss] Watching Channel 4 on Ubuntu

[Roger Greenwood]

Daughter complained to me, was always rubbish but now not working on a chrome book. Does work on a nook tab though. I have not looked further.

On 27 May 2015 13:16:08 BST, Rob Speed <Rob.Speed at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi Smylers,
>
>I get the same issue in Firefox, Chromium, Opera that you get in
>Chromium.
>If I wireshark it, I see that C4 isn't responding to the request - I
>suggest a temporary backend issue, they're normally quite good at
>responding to issues brought to their attention.
>
>BTW - iPlayer should work wonderfully on Linux (other VOD products are
>available, cough..........)
>
>
>R.
>
>________________________________________
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>[wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk] on behalf of Smylers
>[Smylers at stripey.com]
>Sent: 27 May 2015 12:21
>To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
>Subject: [Wylug-discuss] Watching Channel 4 on Ubuntu
>
>Hi. Has anybody watched any Channel 4 catch-up TV programmes on Linux?
>I
>have done this completely unproblematically in the past, but can't get
>it working now, on Ubuntu 14.04.
>
>Here's what I tried, trying to play a programme such as:
>http://www.channel4.com/programmes/ballot-monkeys/on-demand/61151-004
>
>I tried Firefox first, pressing ‘play’, and then registering*. I got
>the
>error: “A Digital Rights error (3322) has occurred. Please see our
>_Help_ section. Alternatively, please use the retry button.”
>
>‘Retry’ just does the same thing again. The ‘Help’ link goes to:
>http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/name/digital-rights-3322/id/502974174
>which says to reset your Flash video licences at:
>http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager08.html
>
>I think I've done that (I pressed ‘Reset License Files’ then ‘Confirm’,
>though there's no indication that it succeeded), then restarted
>Firefox.
>Same as before.
>
>So I tried Chromium. After pressing ‘Play’ (and signing in) the spinner
>just spins; no error message, and no video.
>
>Anybody get anything different, or have any suggestions for making it
>work?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Smylers
>
>* More specifically, only discovering that one now needs to register
>  after pressing ‘play’, seeing the “or sign in with Twitter” option,
>  thinking that sounds quicker than registering ... only to find that
>  after linking your Twitter account, you then have to fill in a
>  Channel 4 registration form as well, so it isn't really “or”. Giving
>  up because our tea's now getting cold, watching something else for
>  now. Doing the registration dance later, in the hope of watching
>  something tomorrow.
>
>Smylers
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