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Toby Fourre
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posted 29 September 2008 10:38 AM

How do I watch CBC online? I'm running Linux. I can watch videos just about everywhere. The one place I cannot is CBC. What's the trick?

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NN
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posted 29 September 2008 06:44 PM

Hey Toby Fourre, what's it doing when you try to play a video? As an example, what type of video are you trying to play or what page are you trying to watch videos on? Some parts of CBC require Windows Media Player and other may require Adobe Flash Player.

You may just need one of those installed to get what you need?

Here's the flash download site:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Hope it helps.

[ 29 September 2008: Message edited by: NN ]

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Toby Fourre
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posted 29 September 2008 07:10 PM

Actually, what I wanted to do was watch the news. When my spouse wants to watch something else on the boob tube, I thought I could use my computer to view what I want. On CBC, I can listen to Radio 3 but I can't listen to or watch any other media. Understand, I have no trouble watching Youtube or anyone else's stuff, just CBC. As such, I think there's an instruction at CBC that I simply don't get. Of course, since I run Linux it's possible that CBC is using some Microsoft exclusive device.

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NN
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posted 29 September 2008 08:16 PM

Hmm. Sorry, Politics is the only show I know on CBC that you can view live online. Most of the things I've seen from them are video clips (long and short) shortly after the broadcast. I found these pages which seem like your best bet to find something though:

http://www.cbc.ca/frequency/
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/

On the plus side, The national seems to provide a video of the entire show soon after the broadcast.

You could also try this:

javascript:window.open('/video/popup_nlp.html?http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/hourly/hourlyradionews.wmv', 'videopop', 'width=490,height=454,scrollbars=0,resizable=1').focus();

found on this page:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

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