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mtucson - 05 Nov 2007 18:35 GMT

I'm trying to help a friend who wants to watch Finnish news on his Mac
computer. When I try it on my Windows computer, it works perfectly. When I
try it on my Mac laptop, it doesn't work at all - I've downloaded the media
player for Mac. I can watch videos on "Youtube" but not on this website. Can
anyone help? I've included the link that I can't get to work. Thanks.
http://areena.yle.fi/toista?id=896312

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 06 Nov 2007 16:12 GMT

> I'm trying to help a friend who wants to watch Finnish news on his Mac
> computer. When I try it on my Windows computer, it works perfectly. When I
> try it on my Mac laptop, it doesn't work at all - I've downloaded the media
> player for Mac. I can watch videos on "Youtube" but not on this website. Can
> anyone help? I've included the link that I can't get to work. Thanks.
> http://areena.yle.fi/toista?id=896312

I immediately get a -2048 error using the FLip4Mac WMV codecs.
The [age uses a .asx with the following structure:

<ASX><ENTRY><TITLE></TITLE>
<REF
HREF="http://195.248.86.140/areena_world/89/63/896313_666606.wmv"></REF>
<REF
HREF="http://194.252.88.103/areena_world/89/63/896313_666606.wmv"></REF>
</ENTRY></ASX>

The first link seems to be DoA, the second one wirks though, I can copy
it and use it through the Command-u shortcut in QuickTIme player to play
it,

I suspect that it's simply a problem with the site, you might want to
tell them there is a problem with the .asx,

Corentin

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can't play streaming video