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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El día Friday, December 30, 2016 a las 11:17:17AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió:
>
>> El día Friday, December 30, 2016 a las 10:59:22AM +0100, Fabio Colella escribió:
>>
>> > Yes, I read your message, but I asked specifically about mobile devices
>> > because many websites serve a different media format on those. YouTube for
>> > example, some time ago, used to serve HTML5 video, only on smartphone
>> > browsers, defaulting instead flash videos on computer browsers.
>>
>> Ah, now I understand. I checked it with an iPhone which has a Safari
>> browser. This plays the stream. I do not know if this uses flash. How
>> could I check this or how could I change the webbrowser-app to fake the
>> device type?
>
> I went with the safari browser to www.myip.nl and it has no flash
> plug-in installed. This means, it does not play in our BQ due to the
> user-agent string :-(

Yes, this is most likely yet another instance of a website serving bad
content based on user-agent string. To work around the issue, I would
suggest you create a webapp for telesurtv.net, where you can specify a
UA override (see
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/web/ubuntu-webapps-guide/ for
details). This won’t make it work in the browser itself, but at least
it should allow you to watch the stream in an easy way.

HTH,

 Olivier