Streaming Video (Not working)

[Sheepy]

Ok so ive spent a bit of time this morning trying to work out why our suite of Mac's wont stream 80% of videos off the internet..

 

Youtube works but most others dont.. including the bbciplayer

 

The Machine's are on the domain and are using a proxy server to connect.. Now im guesing this is all setup properly as the machines allow domain login and also as I said a lot of sites work...

 

When trying to stream BBCiPlayer off the website it just comes up loading for about 1min then says

 

'This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later'

 

Has anyone ever run into the same issue ? do you know of a fix ?

 

[kmount]

I've seen this before with iplayer, it needed an edgefcs.net domain added to the whitelist.

 

Do you have a decent filtering solution that will let you audit by the IP/host of the mac/user to see any infringements?

[Sheepy]

I had a quick scan around our filtering and couldnt find any obvious place to get a report of that level...

 

The only issue I have with that is.. the Windows machines stream BBCiPlayer fine.. it's just the Mac's fail to stream it...

 

Could it have something to do with RTMP streaming protocol ?

 

I can't find any settings for it.. but it seems to be that type of streaming that is failing...

Edited May 4, 2010 by Sheepy

[Sheepy]

So no-one else has had this issue ?

[danrhodes]

So no-one else has had this issue ?

 

We have this same issue but not on MAC's just through IE.

 

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[Guest theeldergeek]

So no-one else has had this issue ?

 

Sorry, got to 2 suites of iMac's here, no problems like you mention. Are they using Safari or A N Other browser? What happens when you use the local admin account?

[iSteve]

This sounds like some sort of proxy / filter issue. It's not a "Mac" problem.