Description of problem: This bug is for information only at this point. Any thoughts and/or tips are warmly welcome. AT&T http://uverse.com/live is the new On Line presentation of some ( about 200 ) of their "cable" TV channels that are offered to their customer base. I being one of those. This is their on-line solution and there are similar offerings from other Cable TV services here in the States. After some tinkering with it I think that they are using, at a minimum, Browser Java technology to make this happen. So that brings into play: icedtea-web-1.6.2-1.mga5.x86_64.rpm at a minimum. Installing icedtea I get correct responses from: https://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp http://javatester.org/version.html http://www.test-java.com/ https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/General/JavaVersionTests/JavaTests.html http://jgames.com/ So you would assume that installing icedtea would do the trick. Nope. Now the site is asking for Microsoft Silverlight, a dead technology. So either Silverlight is embedded in their system, or it's a fallback, or maybe icedtea is not a 100% solution all the time. This wouldn't be such a big deal but all the cable TV services over here as switching to this kind of a delivery system so it may become problematic for everyone, including us, in the future.
I no longer use ATT and could not even try to access any of their locked content but I Was able to access and view their free content. It uses Flash so I would think that the locked content does the same. I viewed it using Google chrome Version 52.0.2743.10 dev (64-bit) using pepperflash which supports the latest flash version. You can also install the freshplayerplugin which allows firefox to pepperflash if chrome is installed. Out side of that you may need to start bugging ATT to switch to HTML5
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(In reply to Charles Edwards from comment #1) > Out side of that you may need to start bugging ATT to switch to HTML5 That's kinda like trying to turn the Titanic when the iceberg was spotted.
A deeper dive into this today. Understand the platforms under test here are two. A Mageia Linux 5 x86-64 KDE and a 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. Both as a VirtualBox Client. Firefox 46.0.1 Browser. Initially neither have any plugins installed in Firefox. Website under test is: http://www.uverse.com/live So using the site it will ask for various plugins to be install to make it operational. First requested plug-in is Flash. Do remember that Flash anything these days is the devil. Last update a few weeks ago fixed over 80 vulnerabilities. Even Adobe is getting away from Flash because of all of this. Second plug-in requested is Microsoft Silverlight. A now dead technology. So for me in order to view something on the above website requires the installation of a horribly vulnerable plugin and top that off with a dead proprietary technology. I'm sure things are different on an Android and iPhone but for me using Uverse Live is unattainable because of the risks and the dead proprietary technology. If someone can show a better light on this I'm more then open to listen.
(In reply to Charles Edwards from comment #1) > I no longer use ATT and could not even try to access any of their locked > content > but I Was able to access and view their free content. Many thanks for the comment. I'm gonna put this one down for now as it's really not our problem. As it turns out this is an old legacy setup that AT&T is using. Wow, a Flash + Silverlight + Java mashup. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED