Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

What a rude post! This is a problem for me both on Vodafone 3G and Virgin Media through my wifi. Using the same Virgin Media connection streams fine on my desktop pc.

Also you should remember if you are outside UK you will be getting a different version of BBC News with adverts which we don't get within the UK.

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

Same problem here, I used to watch F1 highlights etc before, now they don't work. Maybe bbc is upgrading to flash 10?

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

What site are you using? The BBC UK sites/iPlayer check IP address and wont let you watch from outside the UK. I would assume you are watching from a site that has an agreement with the BBC.

Sorce code from the BBC news site:

I think we can assume they are now using Flash 10

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

Prompted by mobilephil's sensible suggestion, I have tested BBC News Flash video on Firefox on my desktop machine, using the same internet connection as I'm using on my N900 (via wireless). It works fine, which would seem to rule out my ISP as the locus of the problem.

For reference, my Flash versions are 10,0,45,2 on the desktop (on Arch Linux) and 9,0,260,0 on the N900.

To reiterate, it's only a problem with Flash on the BBC, where news videos aren't working at all for me, and iplayer videos start but are audio only. Flash on other sites such as YouTube is fine and dandy.

PS I'm a big fan of the N900, mobilephil. Reporting or confirming an issue isn't necessarily a sign of having a downer on the device.

PPS Hang in there, courtneyg. With a bit of luck someone will get to the bottom of it ... or it'll get fixed at the server end if that's where the problem lies.

PPPS With my Free Software leanings, I feel a bit degraded using Flash at all. Wish the BBC would hurry up and stream in Dirac or Theora.

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

Yup, on Fennec it actually says that you don't have the right version of Flash installed. So it does appear that BBC has moved to Flash 10, which probably means that BBC videos would no longer be available on N900, unless BBC decides to move to a free codec such as Dirac or Theora or Nokia decides to give us Flash player 10.

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

Have you tried the Beta iPlayer? This works on the iPad (no Flash). I am in the U.S., so cannot test without using a VPN.

iPlayer Beta:
http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

Good luck!

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

No, that wont work either... at least not in a straightforward way. BBC uses your browser identification string to serve content and N900 just comes across as a standard Linux PC there (technically BBC could identify it but they don't). So they still serve the standard flash page to N900.

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

By the way, this could be something that can be used to beat Nokia around to convince them to finally port Flash 10.1 to Maemo. Incompatibility with iPlayer in UK context is massive. The fact that N900s are still being sold in UK as a Flash enabled device (saw it in my Local Tesco) means that users would expect it to work with iPlayer. Also, it could be a good opportunity for some of us N900 owners to write to Nokia UK support to pester them. So what says, is a mass complaining worth a try?

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

Tried it on mine, and nothing with Firefox using standard or beta, best I can get is using the bundled browser on iPlayer beta - get sound but no picture, just a black screen...

Going via WiFi through Virgin broadband.

Hrumph. Something that did work now doesn't. I was hoping more would work through time, not less. I expect that on Windoze, not Linux. In this situation, less is not the new more.

:-)

Re: BBC News videos not playing
 

Assuming that changing the user agent is either not working or not worth the bother (http://www.nokian900.tv/two-panel-gm...gmail-on-n900/).

I share your frustration with something that worked, but no longer does.