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help! How do i watch video on my n95?
Mr Sifter
24-12-2008
hi guys, anyone out there able to help? I have an n95, which i use to surf the web. Anytime i try to access video tho, nothing happens! I'd like to be able to watch the football highlights on sites like bbc, do i have to download flash player or something? Where would i find a site that would help me download and install it directly to my phone? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
prking
24-12-2008
The N95 has flash built-in. But make sure your firmware is up to date. When you say nothing happens, what do you mean. Do you get any error messages? How are you connecting? Can you give us an example of a link that doesn't work? Describe exactly what happens.
Mr Sifter
24-12-2008
the problem is occuring when i try to view actual web pages, as opposed to wap pages. Take the bbc sport homepage for example. When i try to click on a 'watch highlights' link, the page loads up as normal, i can see the black 'screen' appear with the little buffering circle....then nothing. After a couple of seconds the circle stops spinning....and thats it! Sometimes clicking on a link doesnt even guarantee the 'blank screen', although every other part of the page appears, as normal
Mr Sifter
24-12-2008
hope this answers your questions, sorry mate but i am hopeless at all things technical....it took me about 6 months to figure out how to register for DS ha ha. Thanks again.
prking
25-12-2008
Ah, that means there is some sort of connection problem. Are you trying to view over 3G or Wi-fi.
pjg_pigeon
14-01-2009
"the problem is occuring when i try to view actual web pages, as opposed to wap pages. Take the bbc sport homepage for example. When i try to click on a 'watch highlights' link, the page loads up as normal, i can see the black 'screen' appear with the little buffering circle....then nothing. After a couple of seconds the circle stops spinning....and thats it! Sometimes clicking on a link doesnt even guarantee the 'blank screen', although every other part of the page appears, as normal"

Hi, I also have the exact same behaviour on BBC web site when trying to view live sport etc. until I recently de-branded my phone and installed latest firmware (V31). Now when I visit the same pages, the page loads up but all I get is the blue flash player logo, that looks like someone has ripped it into two pieces

Any got any ideas?
!!11oneone
14-01-2009
The n95 has Flash Lite, not the full flash player. It could be that Flash Lite doesn't support BBC videos.
flagpole
14-01-2009
Originally Posted by pjg_pigeon:
“"the problem is occuring when i try to view actual web pages, as opposed to wap pages. Take the bbc sport homepage for example. When i try to click on a 'watch highlights' link, the page loads up as normal, i can see the black 'screen' appear with the little buffering circle....then nothing. After a couple of seconds the circle stops spinning....and thats it! Sometimes clicking on a link doesnt even guarantee the 'blank screen', although every other part of the page appears, as normal"

Hi, I also have the exact same behaviour on BBC web site when trying to view live sport etc. until I recently de-branded my phone and installed latest firmware (V31). Now when I visit the same pages, the page loads up but all I get is the blue flash player logo, that looks like someone has ripped it into two pieces

Any got any ideas?”

it's unlikely that you will be able to play the embeded flash video using the built in flash like.

but to give it a go you need to ensure that it's enabled.

there are a number of versions of the bbc site from a very plain wap version through to the full pc version. you want to set your preferences on the bbc page for something in between.

the bbc pages are now so media rich that they don't display very well on the phones. (or older computers for that matter)
prking
14-01-2009
The built in browser is capable of showing the videos. The player is loading and starts the buffering process, but the OP is reporting that it stops. This is normally a sign of insufficient bandwidth.
Last edited by prking : 14-01-2009 at 17:31
pjg_pigeon
21-01-2009
Could it still be a bandwidth issue? If my colleague sitting next to me in the office has an iphone which has no such problems using the same WIFI connection.
prking
21-01-2009
The iPhone browser doesn't support flash, so I'm not sure how your colleague is viewing the flash video. Perhaps, your colleague is using BBC iPlayer?
pjg_pigeon
23-01-2009
Originally Posted by prking:
“The iPhone browser doesn't support flash, so I'm not sure how your colleague is viewing the flash video. Perhaps, your colleague is using BBC iPlayer?”

Sorry you are correct.

Guess i need to research some way of testing the bandwidth. Anyone got any ideas or links?
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