GrumbleDook Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 Hot off the press, Synetrix and EMBC have confirmed that they are now in touch with appropriate technical people at 4oD who are aware of the issue and working on appropriate changes. Thanks to all who have helped raise awareness with the 4oD team (especially Edu-IT) and we are waiting for them to do their magic. 1
Willott Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 Woo That'll be one less thing for my staff to complain about soon... look forward to the "it's working" update Cheers Will
Edu-IT Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 Yay! I've not heard back from my contact, but that's great news. Hopefully she poked the right teams.
kennysarmy Posted December 16, 2009 Posted December 16, 2009 I've just had this from the SWGfL: We have discussed a number of solutions and the best one is to open port 1935 requests from your school LAN to the Internet. So what will happen is that users browsing to 4OD and click the Play button, will generate an outgoing request from the computer, to the SWGfL Firewall, to 4OD. 4OD then should respond to the request stream traffic directly on port 1935. There are no major security incidents, as all traffic from 1935 into your network will be based on users request. The only concern is that port 1935 will be open from your network to the Internet Let me know what you think. If there is a fix going to be in place which does nt require a hole in our firewall should I wait? Or is there no risk to us opening up port 1935 and we should just go for it... Thanks.
GrumbleDook Posted December 16, 2009 Posted December 16, 2009 I'll forward this on to Synetrix to see if they can get the 4oD team to speak with SWGfL.
GrumbleDook Posted April 14, 2010 Posted April 14, 2010 Updated news this evening ... it appears that 4oD and Demand Five are now both working correctly on EMBC network. If anyone fancies doing some school based testing in the morning it would be appreciated (including letting me know what level filtering you are testing it on too).
robk Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 It seems at least in derbyshire 4od has slipped backed to adverts only. Tested yesterday after a layer three upgrade.
Willott Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 4oD is doing adverts only (doing "An error occurred..." once that's done, same as robk is seeing. Difficult to define filtering level we're on (have it to block profanity, pornography and criminal skills and I think that's about it as we have in house filtering).
kmount Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Encountered this briefly on a customer site last week; as a matter of interest please check to see whether the BBC News links work or report the same unable to play this content message. (Specifically news, NOT iplayer).
Willott Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Followed links through BBC News pages and news headlines played fine (if that's what you mean). Cheers Will
Willott Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Not working at 1551 today. Works for adverts and sponsorships, then brings error when going to programme content. In Firefox just before this it shows loading data from webstats.channel4.com, then login.embc.uk.com. Cheers Will
robk Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Just checked via terminal services. Still showing adverts only on our EMBC connection.
GrumbleDook Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Thanks for testing folks ... gone back to Synetrix for some more testing and then to C4.
GrumbleDook Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 Time to request some more testing from folks in EMBC schools. Can you check 4oD again for me and let me know if you get more than just adverts.
Joh619 Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 Ooo I just got to watch a bit of hollyoaks Seems to be working fine here. 1
mikeingham Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 Just watched an episode of Trigger Happy TV here in Lancashire. This is the first time we have got past the adverts! Thanks to all involved 1
GrumbleDook Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 Fantastic, if anyone else can test (outside of EMBC too actually) it would be helpful. 1
pwds Posted May 14, 2010 Posted May 14, 2010 Working here on EMBC and SW- in fact the adverts are blocked and the programmes are playing which is a complete reversal of what was happening before. 1
GrumbleDook Posted September 21, 2010 Posted September 21, 2010 Ok folks ... I have some news. The problem is down to 4oD coming from two main stream providers ... one which doesn't like the way many RBCs are set up and one which accepts a more relaxed attitude. There is a work around for blocked links until this is sorted. It appears that if you come across a blocked stream then by adding "?cdm=ak" (without the quotes) will force it onto a workable stream. I know it is a bit Heath-Robinson but we are getting there with sorting this. Let me know how you all get on with it. 1
dthebike Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 We have same issue in Herefordshire - not a member of a grid, but use the Local Authority network to connect. We use Websence filtering, but it is straight out after that I believe, so can't think what 4OD requires to work. Your ?cdm=ak ploy works a treat though....
camel Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 Are 4oD on Youtube - could this be the answer to our EMBC issues? Just searched for Kevin McClouds Summing It and it was a result from youtube that interested me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIFuLCEtNTs&list=SL looks like youtube are doing TV shows too? Still got the adverts though!
camel Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 YouTube - 4oD here is their homepage on youtube! interesting.
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