BBC.COM video will not play after latest VLC update
Video on 4.10.17-100.fc24.x8664 #1 SMP Mon May 22 16:32:22 UTC 2017 x8664 x8664 x86 64 GNU/Linux on BBC.com has been problematic lately; one week it'll run after a weekly update (usually on done a Saturday) and often times, it won't. Now is such a time. VLC upgraded in my recent Saturday upgrade, using dnf upgrade command, all seemed to install properly, yet when I went to play BBC.com vid, they stall. YouTube runs, CBC.ca videos run, mostly, and I've got flashplayer 25.0 r0 installed as well. Some on #fedora IRC channel on Freenode vehemently claim flashplayer is "insecure," (should mean unsecure as "insecure" is a state of mind) but I've never had trouble with it. My question is, what is the fix for this erratic video nonsense involving BBC.com video? Is there something I need to download each time this happens? What's going on with this?? Or do I need to download one of the alternatives to flashplayer? Browser is Firefox 53.0.2.
Do you have installed rpmfusion or unitedrpms repository? flashplayer is maintained again by adobe... maybe in the IRC is Outdated... Firefox will drop the support for flash, but you can use freshplayer...
I have no flash or fresh or whatsoever player installed, and my FF (firefox-53.0.3-1.fc25.x86_64) plays any video on bbc.com just fine. Now, what's your procedure to play BBC videos on VLC? You copy the URL from your browser and paste it in VLC?