[GTALUG] Toronto Star videos no longer work

[Tim Tisdall]

Worked for me...  Chrome in Ubuntu 14.04

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:00 AM, James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com> wrote:
> 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 which is no longer being updated for Linux.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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