Cannot watch foxnews.com videos

[don922]

Puppy528.7_3HD
Flash player installed 26.0.0.131
Palemoon browser version 27.3.0-p4-sse-glibc219tweak

Starting a couple of weeks ago when I try to watch foxnews videos I receive the following message:

Sorry but the video you're trying to play cannot be found

If problems persist please seek help from here

Error 5

I have tried to seek "help from here", but as usually is the case with things like this -- this just wasted time.

How do I fix this problem?

[bigpup]

Can you post a link to a video that gives this error?

I tried it using Pale Moon 27.3.0 and they work for me.
I just tried the videos on the first page of Fox News.

I have no plugins or extensions in Pale Moon, so the videos are playing in HTML5.

[don922]

I cannot open and see any of the videos in foxnews.com. I have tried all the links shown and get the same error message. A typical link would be the lead story in Fox News today.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06 ... flags.html

Perhaps I am having problems because I am located in Thailand.

[Flash]

I don't get an error message but nothing happens when I try to play it in Quirky Werewolf 64 bit (SeaMonkey 2.39). Maybe it's a feature, not a bug.

[8Geee]

Might work if if you disable the adblockers and popup blockers, and maybe the firewall, too.


Regards
8Geee

[bigpup]

foxnews.com videos are HTML5 code.

Palemoon 27.3.0 should have no problem playing them.
My copy does with no problems.

Try disabling Flash Player in Add-ons.

The release notes for Palemoon suggest disabling Media Source Extensions may help.
preferences->Content

However, your error is more about not accessing the video, not about being able to play it when you do access it.
preferences->Content
Is Load images: set to automatically?

[don922]

I could watch the foxnews.com videos until a couple of weeks ago.

I have tried to run foxnews.com with the adblockers disabled, the popup blocker disabled, the firewall turned off, Flash Player in Add-ons disabled, and Media Source Extensions turned off.

The videos still would not run and I received the usual message.

[bigpup]

When accessing foxnews.com

In the Palemoon web page address does it look exactly like this:
http://www.foxnews.com/

If it is saved in your browser bookmarks.
Try deleting it.
Accessing by typing it into the browser address slot.

[don922]

The address that I am using is:
http://www.foxnews.com/

I have, also, typed in www.foxnews.com -- resulting in the same video cannot be found message.

I cannot find out what Error 5, referred to at the end of the message, is about. I can't find "Error 5".

[OscarTalks]

These web designers try to do all sorts of clever tricks to embed stuff like adverts or sign-up requests. Makes everything rather hit and miss so I have no definitive answer.

Having Pup Advert Blocker active prevents all videos from working (on that site).

In Wheezy, with no ad-blocking, I can get videos to play in Vivaldi 1.9 and also Palemoon 27.3.0 (official build) but in the Debian Firefox ESR 45.7.0 they don't work and I get no error messages.

[bigpup]

From foxnews.com help.

your security settings may be too high for our ads and videos to play. Please disable any adblockers and also disable ‘prevent tracking’ in your browser for Fox News.

As a last effort, you may clear your cache and cookies to ensure the new updates and changes have been applied successfully and then refresh the page.

[Moose On The Loose]

From foxnews.com help.

your security settings may be too high for our ads and videos to play. Please disable any adblockers and also disable ‘prevent tracking’ in your browser for Fox News.

As a last effort, you may clear your cache and cookies to ensure the new updates and changes have been applied successfully and then refresh the page.

I looked at their page source and also fed the URL into the W3C validator. I found a few errors. W3C found some more. Their site is not good HTML or HTML5.

The news of the investigation is not all that new. If you are interested, you may be able to find the same video content elsewhere. It is all over the net.

[souleau]

If all else fails, you can actually download the videos with youtube-dl and GTKPlay-YT. The thing is that youtube-dl is able to download videos from many many sources, not just YouTube.

You can find a GTKPlay-YT pet here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=100401

and the latest youtube-dl can be found here:

http://youtube-dl.org/

It does require Python.

It takes a bit of fiddling with the settings, but once things are set up the way you want, it is simply a matter of pasting the url of the videopage in the url field of GTKPlay-YT (in the case of foxnews, I removed the #sp=show-clips from the end of the url), then type a folder location to save the video to and hit download.

(P.S. Be sure to regularly update youtoube-dl by typing youtube-dl -U in the terminal.)

[mikeslr]

If you actually want NEWS --which means not only the things you want known but also those things which don't exactly square with your preferred view of the world, try:

https://www.economist.com/

https://www.bloomberg.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/

Some of those "on the Right" will suggest that the above are organs of "failed" Liberalism. I'm not sure what they consider failure. Forty years ago those on the Right --with Democrats either complicit or oblivious--set out to dismantle the "Liberalist" economic system which had been in place for 50 years. America at that time had an 8.3% annual growth rate; a positive trade balance from (a) the products of factories in what is now its "rust built" and (b) small family farms across the nation. Those farms and factories provided sufficient income that both owners and employees could plan for retirement, and for their children to attend colleges without becoming indebted for life. And in choosing a career, those children --even those who sought to become professionals-- were likely to return to their home-towns and open their own offices, rather than hoping to become managers subject to the whims of some Mega-corporation's Home Office. Those small farms and local factories also supported the small cities and villages surrounding them

Because each municipality, small or large, contributed to the economic wealth of the country, each also played a role in directing its political power. They were not dependent on hand-outs from Washington. Washington was dependent on reaching a consensus among them. Liberalism --rather than being a threat to "Local Values"-- accommodated and protected them. With the destruction of the "Liberal" economic system, 40% --rather than only 20%-- of America's GDP now goes to the benefit of the top 1%. And with that 40% goes the power to influence both economic and political decisions. Deprived of local power to counter corporate action against our interest, the rest of us --yeah, all of us, White, Black, Hispanic, Christian, Jew, Muslim, what-have-you-- are compelled to seek that counter from the National Government. So the Right, once again, plays the "us against them card" --them being whoever isn't already a part of your community, people you don't know and who can be accused of anything. It's "them" who are taking your jobs, benefiting from Big Government programs, threats to your way of life.

We were told then, as we are being told now, that giving tax breaks to the rich will stimulate business and create jobs. And that's true. It did. It created factory jobs in China, Korea, Malaysia, etc.. It created Mega-Farms in South America. It stimulated the business of international trade --dependent on exploiting foreign labor*-- to the point that only by a major over-haul of the Tax Code and an insistence on cheaply available energy --solar, wind, wave, geothermal, and yes for the time being oil**-- can the Middle-Class hope to recover what it lost.

* and for 40 of those years, foreign oil --which we obtained by supporting the oppressive regimes which controlled it.

mikesLr

*Mention Oklahoma* and you'll think of Oil, and maybe fracking. I think "the wind comes roaring down the plain". Enough wind to power Oklahoma City and its surrounds, maybe more if we built the necessary infra-structure. Currently, 40% of California's energy consumption is supplied by solar power. It could easily produce more, but it doesn't have the infra-structure to store or send it were its needed. Building infra-structure costs money. Of course, that money would be spent in this country, paid to local companies and local workers. We will have the money to bail out banks again when they discover that the next box they over-bid for at a "Chinese Auction" turns out only to contain a sow's ear. But we don't have money for infra-structure. Would you vote for me if I ran on this platform "I'm going to take $68 Billions each year and piss it away."? That what failing to rebuild our roads and bridges cost American business.

You won't learn any of this on Fox news.

* Well, it seems I'm not the only one who realized this:https://www.yahoo.com/news/ge-invenergy ... ector.html

[slavvo67]

I like Fox News... just not for actual news.

It's like buying the Star, Enquirer or better, The World Weekly News.... They actually found batboy again (on the cover every other issue).

LOL