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by Mithaldu 3822 days ago
I'm in Stralsund and it straight-up won't play the video in Chrome. Just keeps spinning. Downloading from youtube works as well, even though you have to resort to youtube-dl, and i like having youtube track what i've seen so i can refer to that later in case i forget having seen something. Plus, the CCC org is not any more trustable than youtube.
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zz1 3822 days ago
> Just keeps spinning.

Sounds like what happens to me when opening the page. Did you try to click on 'Video' tab or on the 'Play' button? It started the video for me.

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Mithaldu 3822 days ago
No amount of clicking on any element helps.

Trying to play http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ccc/congress/2015/h264-hd-... directly in the browser works.

Maybe they should just load that in an iframe or something.

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edwintorok 3822 days ago
In the developer tools console there is a mixed content warning:

  Mixed Content: The page at 'https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7435-replication_prohibited#video' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure video 'http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/ccc/congress/2015/h264-hd-web/32c3-7435-en-Replication_Prohibited.mp4'. This content should also be served over HTTPS.
FWIW Firefox plays it just fine
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zz1 3822 days ago
The CCC built a distributed CDN, so nope, that wouldn't help: my video is loading from netcologne.de, for instance (in a 'video' element, which is appreciate, from my point of view).
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