[clug] ABC iview - any joy with linux?

Discussion:

Steve McInerney

2009-06-01 05:41:44 UTC

Managed to miss Dr Who last night (Major disaster!!!!), and a few recent
episodes of TimeTeam - these both covering about 90% of my normal TV watching. ;-)

I note that ABC now has this iview thingy, but I've not been able to make it
work with Ubuntu 9.04/firefox. Just get a semi blank screen. the speed test
etc all fail.

Have tried a flush/recreate of my firefox install to no joy.

I can (and will if necessary) fail back to my 'doze pc which does work. But
I'm not ready to admit defeat just yet.

Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

Cheers!
- Steve

Nathan O'Sullivan

2009-06-01 05:46:45 UTC

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Post by Steve McInerney
I can (and will if necessary) fail back to my 'doze pc which does work. But
I'm not ready to admit defeat just yet.
Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

You need a working Adobe Flash install, afaik that's it. I'm using the
Flash 10 beta, works perfectly on Ubuntu x64 with Firefox

Regards
Nathan

Hal Ashburner

2009-06-01 05:48:46 UTC

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Post by Steve McInerney
Managed to miss Dr Who last night (Major disaster!!!!), and a few recent
episodes of TimeTeam - these both covering about 90% of my normal TV watching. ;-)
I note that ABC now has this iview thingy, but I've not been able to make it
work with Ubuntu 9.04/firefox. Just get a semi blank screen. the speed test
etc all fail.
Have tried a flush/recreate of my firefox install to no joy.
I can (and will if necessary) fail back to my 'doze pc which does work. But
I'm not ready to admit defeat just yet.
Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

Hi Steve,
Might be an ubuntu specific issue.
Just fired it up for the first time. Using firefox & the non-free
flashplayer. The speedtest worked fine. As did the opening 30 seconds of
Dr Who.
My firefox has a bunch of plugins as well which would only get in the
way (flashblock, firebug, yslow, cookie manager, tree style tabs, user
agent switcher, web developer etc.)

Maybe check you have the nonfree flashplayer installed?
Outside chance your ISP is blocking it (seems unlikely to me but possible).

Regards,
Hal

Lana Brindley

2009-06-01 06:05:06 UTC

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2009/6/1 Steve McInerney <***@stedee.id.au>

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Post by Steve McInerney
Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

Sorry Steve, I'm not going to be helpful at all. It Just Works(TM) on Fedora
:P

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Steve McInerney

2009-06-01 06:33:50 UTC

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Post by Lana Brindley
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Post by Steve McInerney
Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

Sorry Steve, I'm not going to be helpful at all. It Just Works(TM) on Fedora
:P

Ha! :-D

Actually it does help in this case as it implies something is fubar'd nicely
at my end, and that a working setup *is* possible.

Yes I (did - am doing the flash uninstall/reinstall/reconfigure game atm) do
have the non free flash installed.
Do get youtube working successfully, for example.

Do get the header on iview, but the rest of the app doesn't show. eg the speed
test.

Still chasing.

Cheers! & Thanks all!
- Steve

Lana Brindley

2009-06-01 06:37:12 UTC

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Post by Lana Brindley

Post by Lana Brindley
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Post by Steve McInerney
Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

Sorry Steve, I'm not going to be helpful at all. It Just Works(TM) on

Fedora

Post by Lana Brindley
:P

Ha! :-D
Actually it does help in this case as it implies something is fubar'd nicely
at my end, and that a working setup *is* possible.
Yes I (did - am doing the flash uninstall/reinstall/reconfigure game atm) do
have the non free flash installed.
Do get youtube working successfully, for example.
Do get the header on iview, but the rest of the app doesn't show. eg the speed
test.
Still chasing.
Cheers! & Thanks all!
- Steve

And incidentally, in the interests of research only, you understand, it also
Just Works on my Thinkpad T60, running RHEL5 (and *nothing* ever works on
that!)

L
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Cheers! Lana

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unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book..
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Steve McInerney

2009-06-01 07:15:55 UTC

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One step forward and all that...

the major culprit - so far - was the ~/.macromedia folder.
rm'd that and managed to get the main screen working.

Unf! the act of playing a video crashes firefox. whee.

For the record and those following along in some distant future:

strace suggests this is the culprit:
26119 write(2, "Xlib: extension \"GLX\" missing on display \":0.0\".\n"...,
50) = 50
26119 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---

Boom. Now to chase the missing GLX...

Cheers!
- Steve

Post by Lana Brindley

Post by Lana Brindley
<snip>

Post by Steve McInerney
Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

Sorry Steve, I'm not going to be helpful at all. It Just Works(TM) on

Fedora

Post by Lana Brindley
:P

Ha! :-D
Actually it does help in this case as it implies something is fubar'd nicely
at my end, and that a working setup *is* possible.
Yes I (did - am doing the flash uninstall/reinstall/reconfigure game atm) do
have the non free flash installed.
Do get youtube working successfully, for example.
Do get the header on iview, but the rest of the app doesn't show. eg the speed
test.
Still chasing.
Cheers! & Thanks all!
- Steve

And incidentally, in the interests of research only, you understand, it also
Just Works on my Thinkpad T60, running RHEL5 (and *nothing* ever works on
that!)
L

Steve McInerney

2009-06-01 07:26:36 UTC

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Post by Steve McInerney
One step forward and all that...
the major culprit - so far - was the ~/.macromedia folder.
rm'd that and managed to get the main screen working.
Unf! the act of playing a video crashes firefox. whee.
26119 write(2, "Xlib: extension \"GLX\" missing on display \":0.0\".\n"...,
50) = 50
Boom. Now to chase the missing GLX...

Disable H/W acceleration in the flash player itself.
Problem solved.

So to recap:
1. remove the existing ~/.macromedia folder
2. disable (uncheck) the h/w acceleration setting in the flash player

/me now has iview goodness and managed to stop self from watching an entire
episode of Dr Who as a "burn in" test. :-D

Cheers!
- Steve

Andrew Janke

2009-06-01 06:10:47 UTC

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Post by Steve McInerney
I note that ABC now has this iview thingy, but I've not been able to make it
work with Ubuntu 9.04/firefox. Just get a semi blank screen. the speed test
etc all fail.
Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

Certainly works here. I am using default ubuntu 32 and 64 with a
default firefox install.

This is with both an older T42 thinkpad (ATI card + Ubuntu i386) and
an X60 + Ubuntu amd64

Perhaps a video card issue? (perish the thought!)

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Tony Breeds

2009-06-01 06:51:34 UTC

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/me suspects its'a 64bit kernel problem. Run up a 32-bit VM (you have KVM
right?) and see if that helps.

Yours Tony

Daniel Pittman

2009-06-01 07:15:56 UTC

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Post by Tony Breeds

Post by Steve McInerney
Managed to miss Dr Who last night (Major disaster!!!!), and a few
recent episodes of TimeTeam - these both covering about 90% of my
normal TV watching. ;-)
I note that ABC now has this iview thingy, but I've not been able to
make it work with Ubuntu 9.04/firefox. Just get a semi blank
screen. the speed test etc all fail.
Have tried a flush/recreate of my firefox install to no joy.
I can (and will if necessary) fail back to my 'doze pc which does work. But
I'm not ready to admit defeat just yet.
Any tips/pointers from those who have it working?

/me suspects its'a 64bit kernel problem. Run up a 32-bit VM (you have
KVM right?) and see if that helps.

Ah. There is an issue with 64-bit Flash 10, in that it generates the
LAHF series instructions unconditionally. Windows emulates these, but
Linux doesn't, so the generated native code will fail more or less
randomly on early 64-bit CPUs, on Linux.

No idea if that is related, because there isn't enough information to
determine exactly why things are going wrong, but it is a possible
cause.

Check the kernel messages for invalid instructions. :)

Regards,
Daniel