On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 06:03:29 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 29/11/2018 16:18, Alister wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:00:07 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> On 29/11/2018 13:48, Alister wrote:
>>>> Hi looking to smarterize my dads TV with a PI to enable him to watch
>>>> his football on TV rather than his laptop screen.
>>>>
>>> OK...
>>>
>>>> currently playback of uploaded video interviews to his club site work
>>>> well
>>>
>>> How?
>>>
>>> I thought you said they didn't work on his TV?
>> Sorry maybe I was not clear uploaded interviews play fine on a Pi3B+,
>> streamed videos fro iFollow fail to start & simply hang.
>>
>>
>>>> but the streamed content provided by I follow simply will not play.
>>>
>>> On what? What is "I follow"?
>>> Do you mean "Ifollow"?
>> Yes
>>
>>
>>> No doubt it is one of these 'DRM protected you p[ay and it barely
>>> works on a PC' type of things
>>>
>> Again yes, but he does have an account & it works with his laptop which
>> runs Fedora so it is not a window V Linux compatibility issue.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Any suggestions on what may be required to get this working, or even
>>>> simply how to start diagnosing the issue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> A complete description of the bits that work and the bits that don't
>>> with protocols accurately described would be a start...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> currently using a stock raspian install but that is not essential any
>>>> other Pi Distro would be acceptable if needed
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It would seem that its a fairly crap but stock HTML or flash delivery
>>
>> hav not checks the flash support & the pi is using chromium so that may
>> be the issue, will give it a try anyway - thanks
>>>
>>> Probably easiests to use he PI HDMI and invest in a radio
>>> 'mouse-and-keyboard' type controller and use the TV like a big
>>> monitor.
>>
>> That is exactly what I am trying to provide :-)
>>>
>>> But is it a smart TV?
>>>
>> No its a cheap & nasty "Polaroid" so dumb as shit.
>> hence the addition of the PI.
>>
>>
> Ok now at least the problem is clear.
>
> It seems that the Ifollow works on Fedora/laptop linux, but not on Pi
> linux.
>
> So the real issue is why that is.
>
> Are you using identical browsers?
probably not, the Pi is using chromium by default fedora is using firefox
I have tried firefox on the Pi as well but i believe it is a tweaked
version
>
> Is the Ifollow a flash app? Mmm. Seems it is.

any way for me to confirm, I do get the payer window displayed but the
play buttons just do not respond.
>
> Chromium on the pi has Flash support in built I think.
>
> Have you enabled Flash for the sites?
not explicitly, is there some setting in cromium I need to adjust?

Many thanks for all the suggestions sofar, certainly helping & giving me
things to look into.
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