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aicul

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Hello,

I would like to look at the NBA.com video stream but seem to fail at doing so. Their support page says to use the flip4mac plug-in or to install firefox.

I tried both, but they do not work.

Has anyone successfully managed to watch the NBA.com streams on their macs? if so mind to share the secret of success?

Cheers
 
Hm.... interesting.

Safari loads it black for me.
Firefox .. I don't want to allow doubleclick cookies so not testing further - no results there.
In VMware Fusion, I tested the site in IE in XP Pro, and there I got a complaint about ActiveX control for Adobe FlashPlayer ... too lazy to install.

When I try to view some NBA video in Safari, it opens the popup, but video stays black, and I get it for all videos.

But when on that popup window I view source, e.g.
Code: 
<html lang="en"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title></title><script type="text/javascript">
                        var first_play = 1;
                        var external_playlist_url = 0;
                        var qContentPath = "http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/nba/nbacom/nbatv/nash_charity_event_070727.asx";
                        var myGeoTeams = new Array();
                        strgeoTeams = "";
                        myGeoTeams = strgeoTeams.split(",");
                </script>

And of that I copy and paste the url of the actual stream file, in this case http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/nba/nbacom/nbatv/nash_charity_event_070727.asx I can view the video in the new window correctly.

There are a huge amount of javascripts on NBA site, perhaps some of those are calling something that works only in IE. :-/
 
Interesting that I was able to the videos to play in Camino (once I turned off pop-up blocking). This is a case of bad web site design. Try using FireFox or Camino and see if you play the videos.
 
Hi,

Thanks for the input, there does seem to be some issue around the javascript as I also successfully could view the video by entering the url directly.

I did not try camino so I cannot comment here.

Cheers
 
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