Some days ago The Australian Broadcasting Commission streaming service Iview stopped working. My home has multiple computers. for all Windows machines Iview continued to work however all linux machines no longer work. i have tried alternative browser including Opera and Chrome and they don't work. How can I configure a browser so as not to reveal what the OS is or better change it to something else.


also there are other Linux users complaining of the same thing.

http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/Client/M...&dm=1&am=27319

My sister has a Windows 7 machine and it isn't working on it. "Service Unavailable" is the message so it's not a Linux problem rather the ABC has pulled iView for a short time.

I just checked again on Linux and it is working now.

Co-incidentally the ABC web page was up and down yesterday morning.

I have three Linus machines and three Windows boxes on my home LAN.
All the Linux machine hang waiting loading Iview whereas all the Windows machines are working.
I want to disguise the OS on the Linux machine to see if it then works
and if so I'll ring up the ABC and complain.

keirvt, it is not a co-incidence at all they were working on the service and it didn't work on Windows or Linux. I use it extensively for teaching and come across it the other day but didn't worry about it. My sister checked on her machine yesterday and it still wasn't working. I have checked on both machines this morning. It is working on both Windows and Linux.

If you are still having issues it may be your machine and not ABC iView. You may want to check what codecs you have installed, iView is slowly moving away from flv (it is mainly used on ABC 24 now the other stations have moved to a different video format).

By the way, the thread you linked to is nearly a year old and the last reply was in July last year. Hardly an up to date topic to be basing your problems on.