[GTALUG] Toronto Star videos no longer work

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Fri Apr 24 15:00:14 UTC 2015


On 04/21/2015 12:57 PM, James Knott wrote:
> On 04/21/2015 09:39 AM, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:07 AM, James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com
>> <mailto:james.knott at rogers.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Has anyone else noticed that the videos on the Toronto Star site no
>>     longer work with Linux?  I've tried Firefox, Seamonkey and Chromium
>>     browsers.  The videos do work in Windows.
>>
>>
>> Running Arch Linux + Firefox  37.0.2 to watch video at this link:
>>
>> https://www.thestar.com/life/sourced/2015/04/08/carls-jrs-queen-west-location-has-a-dedicated-milkshake-bar-sourced.html
>>
>> I needed to temporarily disable the HTTPS-Everywhere plugin... after
>> restarting and using 'http' links the videos played OK.
>>
>> Chrome 42.0.2311.90 with no plugins played the videos OK.
>>
> It was HTTPS Everyware that caused the problem.  I disabled thestar.com
> in it, so I'm past that problem.  That only leaves the videos that won't
> play for other reasons.  ;-)
>
>

Now that problem is out of the way, another has turned up.  With many
videos, I am getting an error message: "The video you are trying to
watch is currently unavailable.  Please try again later.  Error
Code:VE_PD_NOTFOUND"

When I search on that error code, it appears it's related to Flash,
which is no longer being updated for Linux.  It also seems to happen on
recent videos, not older ones.  Any ideas, other than viewing those
videos in Windows?

Here is a link to one video that fails:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/04/23/killer-sent-photos-of-dead-woman-3-children-to-biological-father-relative-says.html

BTW, this is in Firefox on openSUSE 13.1.


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