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Drewgrange · Post by **Drewgrange** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:05 pm

I'm trying out CNN's new website and it isn't working very well. Is it just me or is their linux support not good?

The new live feed doesn't start at all, and when I try to watch the video clips at www.cnn.com/video they play the advertisement at the beginning and then crap out. I guess that is better than when the site was in beta; the videos wouldn't even start for me then.

I'm using the latest firefox and flash plugin

reub2000 · Post by **reub2000** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:30 pm

I just get a black box. Not even an advertisement.

AaronPPC · Post by **AaronPPC** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:43 pm

The site sure takes its time to load.

I don't get past the commercial either.

swimmer · Post by **swimmer** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:42 am

Black box here as well ...

zigver · Post by **zigver** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:37 am

Thanks to the SUSE forums: get the User Agent Switch extension, select Netscape 4.8 (Windows Vista), and CNN videos work.

01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:27 am

zigver wrote:Thanks to the SUSE forums: get the User Agent Switch extension, select Netscape 4.8 (Windows Vista), and CNN videos work.

Now that's what I call Linux-unfriendly!

Drewgrange · Post by **Drewgrange** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:44 pm

How strange.

Yes the video clips work fine after this workaround. Stupid CNN

The free live feed still seems to be unusable for linux uses (possibly mac as well). Now when I try to view it it wants me to install wmvfirefoxplugin.exe.

Post by **zx2c4** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:12 am

This workaround works well, but....

Any permanent solutions yet?

bertaboy · Post by **bertaboy** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:58 am

I tried to view the live feed while under Windows using Opera and it said I had to install wmvfirefoxpluginsetup.exe. Maybe a wine wrapper could work on this?

Edit:

Even after installing the files, I am still unable to view the live feed while using Opera under Windows. Hope you have better luck with firefox under Linux. Personally, I prefer the BBC though, although I hear CNN International is actually reputable. Regular CNN is just rubbish, imho

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:42 pm

zx2c4 wrote:This workaround works well, but....

Any permanent solutions yet?

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if ($user==american) then
    sue them;
elseif ($user==muslim) then
    bomb them;
else
    ignore them;
fi

Post by **zx2c4** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:43 pm

anyone?

Aphax · Post by **Aphax** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:57 pm

I had the same problem where the videos wouldn't play, but as of a few days ago it seems to work. Occasionally it still fails but simply clicking the link to the video again while the advertisement is still playing seems to work most (if not, all) of the time.

EDIT: This is with Firefox 2.0.0.4 and Flash 9.0 r31

gerard27 · Post by **gerard27** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:23 pm

No problem here.Plays ok.
Gerard.

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