ITV Catchup Video player

[MarcLister]

Anyone used the above? Just tried it now with IE7 and it just won't work. I'll try to play something and IE7 seems to freeze up.

[LeperousDust]

It would seem they've coded something wrong within flash i think...
I get 60kb in and nothing happens...

[MarcLister]

Using what browser? Nothing happens in Opera for me. FF provokes some compatability chart and IE7 just freezes.

[LeperousDust]

Works for me in Opera, but as i say it just stops 60kb in. Something is obviously wrong, IE can't handle whatever they've fecked up, whereas Opera is just ignoring it...

[MarcLister]

Nothing for me in Opera last time I tried.

[MarcLister]

Yeah. Thing is that it doesn't work for me.

[LeperousDust]

Well no, loads of sites say they only work with IE, but thats just lazy coders, 9 times out of 10 (basically as long as its roughly standards complient and doesnt rely on activeX) anything will work with opera and/or firefox. Sometimes you just have to tell opera to mask itself as FF/IE and things magically work (this really annoys me, and google are pretty much famous for this).

Marc, it doesn't work with your Opera cause i suspect you're using the stable? Whereas i'm using the nightly beta, there will be a huge difference due to rendering engines...

[MarcLister]

Originally Posted by Kitten

I was more responding to the opera uses tbh as to explain why they can't play it.

Do you have Windows Media Player 9 with active x enabled and Flash 8?

WMP11. ActiveX should be enabled but I will check. Er will check on Flash version. Should be latest mind.

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Well no, loads of sites say they only work with IE, but thats just lazy coders, 9 times out of 10 (basically as long as its roughly standards complient and doesnt rely on activeX) anything will work with opera and/or firefox. Sometimes you just have to tell opera to mask itself as FF/IE and things magically work (this really annoys me, and google are pretty much famous for this).

The site I'm replacing with my final year project hates Opera. The drop-down menus won't appear unless I make Opera mask as FF or IE. Needless to say my version doesn't have that problem. What is this Google problem then?

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Marc, it doesn't work with your Opera cause i suspect you're using the stable? Whereas i'm using the nightly beta, there will be a huge difference due to rendering engines...

Surprise, surprise!

I am using 9.26 yes.

[LeperousDust]

Originally Posted by MarcLister

WMP11. ActiveX should be enabled but I will check. Er will check on Flash version. Should be latest mind.

The site I'm replacing with my final year project hates Opera. The drop-down menus won't appear unless I make Opera mask as FF or IE. Needless to say my version doesn't have that problem. What is this Google problem then?

Surprise, surprise!

I am using 9.26 yes.

Make opera mask as FF or IE then, its on a site by site basis, right click edit *site* preferences There are a few sites myself that see opera and just tell me to get FF or IE without even trying to render properly...
Gmail, google calendar, loads of google products don't work correctly within opera, and theres only google to blame.

[MarcLister]

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Make opera mask as FF or IE then, its on a site by site basis, right click edit *site* preferences There are a few sites myself that see opera and just tell me to get FF or IE without even trying to render properly...

Ahem. I know how to do this.

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Gmail, google calendar, loads of google products don't work correctly within opera, and theres only google to blame.

Work ok for me unless I'm missing something?