Video streaming

aicul · #1 July 30th, 2007, 12:00 PM

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

**Giaguara** · #2 July 30th, 2007, 12:22 PM

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/...ent_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. :-/

Satcomer · #3 July 30th, 2007, 02:49 PM

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.

aicul · #4 July 31st, 2007, 12:07 PM

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