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nspluginwrapper package

Streaming video fails Ubuntu 16.10 64bit development version

Bug #1671070 reported by bwallum on 2017-03-08

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nspluginwrapper (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Just updated 8th March 2017 from Ubuntu UK server.
Ubuntu 16.10 64bit development version
Using Firefox 52.0 64bit

Video streaming has failed, image attached.

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bwallum (rbw2) wrote on 2017-03-08:

Typical error message Edit (402.3 KiB, image/png)

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bwallum (rbw2) wrote on 2017-03-08:

Seems to be a problem with live TV streaming from BBC. I do have a licence and all was fine until this morning 8th March 2017. YouTube clips are fine, cached BBC iPlayer video is fine.

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bwallum (rbw2) wrote on 2017-03-09:

Isolated the problem to NoScript. 'Allow scripts globally' in NoScript allows BBC video content, live and cached.

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bwallum (rbw2) wrote on 2017-03-11:

Further isolated to llnwd.net
When this is allowed in NoScript BBC video content works fine. When blocked, the above error occurs. Fully repeatable. I no longer consider this a bug but leave the posting up in case anybody else has experienced this updating problem.