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PATV problems
ditchlily
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In the past, I have had no problems watching the patv episodes, but lately I have been getting an error message that tells me that I need to check my connection (obviously working and quite well at that) or to disable my popup blocker. I am using firefox on a mac, have disabled the popup blocker and even restarted the browser after doing so only to get the same error message. Can anyone give me a hand?
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A: "What do you want from me?!?!?"
I'm able to watch the videos on OS 10.6.2 / Firefox 3.5.7
Episodes 10 and 12 load to a white box, however episode 11 played fine. The link for XML output from the other thread just loads a white page.
Using Mac OS 10.4.11 , Firefox 3.6, and Flash 10,0,32,18.
Hope this helps solve the problem.
Firefox version 3.6
Flash version 10.0.45.2
*Edit* 3/21: It's fixed for me. Thanks!
Episode 103 does not load, tried in multiple browsers, different computers. The error details are below:
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)
Timestamp: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:33:03 UTC
Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 97
Char: 2
Code: 0
URI: http://api.indieclicktv.com/player/show/8705bb3a51554b92842d44e5c2e18aa8/325a559ce28462cde091f5ef6c389d0f/2/default/mplayer.js
(Thanks for the fantastic bug report Intangible, that's pretty much perfect
A: "What do you want from me?!?!?"
edit: I've just now turned on the 'open console on error' in Opera, and I get the following stuff when going to http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/115/
Agh crap can't post it here 'The text that you have entered is too long (126489 characters). Please shorten it to 35000 characters long.'
Should I mail it to you guys? Hell lot of text
edit2: me so dumb, here it is:
Inlined stylesheet
Syntax error before comment end ("-->")
Line 11:
//-->
^
CSS - http://www.penny-arcade.com/stylesheets/compressed/pa-57cfe9e1c18defc57bc28f3d8d97a241.css
Linked-in stylesheet
Invalid value for property: content
Line 1:
ne;}blockquote:before,blockquote:after,q:before,q:after{content:'';content:none;
^
CSS - http://www.penny-arcade.com/stylesheets/compressed/pa-57cfe9e1c18defc57bc28f3d8d97a241.css
Linked-in stylesheet
Invalid value for property: font-size
Line 1:
family:Helvetica,Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px/1.2;
^
CSS - http://www.penny-arcade.com/stylesheets/compressed/pa-57cfe9e1c18defc57bc28f3d8d97a241.css
Linked-in stylesheet
Invalid value for property: font-size
Line 1:
family:Helvetica,Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px/1.2;
^
using firefox 3.6.3
and tried it in IE 8.0.7600.16385 64-bit but if it's flash I don't think it will work in the 64bit IE anyway
I've also had a short email exchange with alphamonkey, but it still doesn't work for me
Also, works just fine for me. Firefox 3.6.3/Win 7.
Yeah it is 32-bit, if your OS version is 32-bit. Mine is not, it's 64-bit.
Are you sure?
The default is still 32-bit, because most plugins are still 32-bit. You would have to be explicitly choosing the 64-bit version to use it.
Flash is up to date, and I just don't know what else I could do (although it's peculiar that every video on youtube asks me to upgrade flash, but that's another topic I guess).
And no, I am not going to install another browser for the sole purpose of viewing PATV.
If that doesn't work then I have an idea.
edit: got it to work with chrome so yeah
Yeah we went through that exchange via email already - the video works, you provided me a direct link to the PATV 114 swf as well, which also worked, and to the PATV 114 xml, which displayed nothing as far as I remember, of which I sent you the source...
I'm working on finding a solution, I just can't track down the bug.
Well, if you need any input on the user side....
Hrm, I'm no programming dude at all, but since the .swf doesn't show up in the source code, instead a javascript which presumably is supposed to get the swf from indieclick to work on pa....that's...where...shit goes wrong?
Plus, when my opera console is activated, I still get the following error(s), the first of which seems to at least hint at what's wrong?
CSS - http://www.penny-arcade.com/stylesheets/compressed/pa-57cfe9e1c18defc57bc28f3d8d97a241.css
Linked-in stylesheet
Invalid value for property: content
Line 1:
ne;}blockquote:before,blockquote:after,q:before,q:after{content:'';content:none;
^
CSS - http://www.penny-arcade.com/stylesheets/compressed/pa-57cfe9e1c18defc57bc28f3d8d97a241.css
Linked-in stylesheet
Invalid value for property: font-size
Line 1:
family:Helvetica,Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px/1.2;
^
CSS - http://www.penny-arcade.com/stylesheets/compressed/pa-57cfe9e1c18defc57bc28f3d8d97a241.css
Linked-in stylesheet
Invalid value for property: font-size
Line 1:
family:Helvetica,Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px/1.2;
^
edit3:
Ok, another thing - I got it to work with the 32bit IE - I practically allowed any kind of script, I might narrow it down to the option that's the cause later - but I don't see any option to change these settings in Opera (yet)
So I've registered to post my problem here (hello!):
Screenshot:
http://yfrog.com/4cpatvoj
I had the same problem this morning with google chrome and osx10.6. eventually I was able to get the problem resolved by changing the settings within the flash player itself. Before that I did uninstall and reinstall flash and this didn't work, in fact it cause firefox and safari to have the same issue as chrome (i.e. your screenshot).
so.. I ended up doing 3 things within the flash settings.
I went here and made sure the bottom two options were checked
then I chose this option and selected the PATV url and selected Always Allow
and the final step at this site I just double checked to make sure it was set to always allow
After this was done. I had one more step to complete at the PATV site itself and that was once I had the page loaded I right clicked on the flash player and checked the privacy setting and made sure the setting was also set to always allow and to remember it.
after that it all worked for me.
Excellent instructions and matter promptly resolved. Several thanks :^:
Hope anyone else having problems with PATV manages to find this. I'm off to watch them all back to back ^_^
I don't know where to start, I don't know what to check, I'm totally lost.
Yup, having exactly the same problem here, just started a couple of days ago. PATV has always been fine for me up until now. Any ideas on this one?
FF 3.6.3, Win 7, Flash 10.0.45.2
This is the problem I'm having. For some reason episode 11 of PA: The Series works fine, but all other episodes and all episodes of Blamimation just show as a .jpeg. I've tried all the steps outlined so far in this post with no luck. Please find what's different about episode 11 and apply it to everything else: that would be great.
Firefox 3.5.9, Flash 10.0.45.2, Vista Pro
I can watch all of them in Opera without problem, but Firefox is my main browser. I've tried disabling the AdBlock add-on and still nothing works.
Like funnygeezus said above, find out what's different about these 2 episodes and apply it to everything else: that would be great.
Thanks
Firefox 3.6.3, Win XP, latest version of flash..
This is exactly my problem too. Latest Blamimation works, and episode ten of PATV. Everything else is the keyframe but no video.
Firefox 3.6.3, Windows XP and the latest Flash.
Confirmed, it seems to work fine in Opera. Guess there's some sort of problem with FF, but at least you can get a workaround uintil this is resolved.
Companies that support PA should expect to have their ads shown in much better quality than that, it was a mess. The episode played just fine but the ad was very low res to the point of being pixelated at times.
Unfortunately, we do not have control over the video quality of mainstream ads. If I was to venture a guess, I would assume that advertisers pay for the bandwidth consumed by their advertisements.
Reformat the Planet was filmed back in 2005. Their equipment has leveled up since then