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On 28 June 2010 11:28, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Julian Hall wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> The short version: Firefox 3.6.6 doesn't like the original BBC iPlayer, >> but it does work with the Beta version on the website. I should say this >> occurred on Windows 7 64bit, but as it's a browser not OS issue I thought >> I'd mention it here :) >> >> The long version: My laptop battery died when I was downloading a Doctor >> Who episode, so I decided to do it on the desktop. >> >> Clicking on the episode on the desktop just got a blank frame with 'Done' >> instead of the usual starting frame with the 'Play' icon over it. I thought >> this was something to do with my IP address being locked out because of the >> failed download, but then tried it in Safari and it seemed OK. Also I >> subsequently completed it on the laptop and the desktop still wouldn't play >> ball with any programmes. >> >> Uninstalled iPlayer and reinstalled - same problem. >> >> Finally I uninstalled, rebooted, then installed the Beta version. That >> worked perfectly. >> >> That strongly suggests to me that something in the latest Firefox update >> doesn't like the older iPlayer but it fine with the new beta. > > Good job I don't have windows then... > > Got the update notification to 3.6.6 this morning (what happened to .5?), > updated it and it's going fine. Plays bbc iPlayer via the web interface OK - > although still not full screen smoothely... but then get_iplayer & mplayer > does that very nicely... It was built on 3.6.4 that had the problems with the new flash player. People were screaming all over the forums (both Mozilla and Adobe) so i think they had to ditch that and jump back to earlier code or something to base it on. I've been crawling all over the Adobe forums trying to get a fix for the crashing my Windows partition was doing whenever the flashplayer tried to accelerate using the knackered graphics card in this thing. By the way, hows this for bad program design, hardware acceleration is ON BY DEFAULT unless its something they know cannot do it. (And looking at the forums they missed loads of ones that cant) the fix is to load a flash app, right click the app, and go into the settings to untick it. Took a while to find one that wouldnt crash the machine.... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html