BBC video on Android?

ajf · 30 Sep 2013 at 03:47

Quick check please.
Trying to play a video clip on BBC site on Android tablet.
It won't play as it wants flash.
Has it always done this? i swear it worked recently and did what it does on IOS and reverts to html5!
I've tried two browsers and checked settings.

breadturbo · 30 Sep 2013 at 03:49

The stock browser on my 4.3 plays flash fine, chrome wont, opera wont

Cosimo · 30 Sep 2013 at 07:08

Adobe killed off flash support for Android last year and Chrome now does not support it.
You could load an old version of flash and try it as a plug in Firefox/Dolphin. You could even try to side load the old stock browser if you want. Just do a search for "flash on Android".

sand_dune · 30 Sep 2013 at 08:13

Try installing BBC media player and BBC iPlayer apps. When you view iplayer vids in browser it calls these apps.

Efour · 30 Sep 2013 at 08:23

I use dolphin HD as my browser these days plays pretty much all i throw near it.

deuse · 30 Sep 2013 at 08:27

http://code.google.com/p/xdroidx/downloads/detail?name=install_flash_player_ics.apk

works on ICS and JB. You could tick the option in your browser to ask for the desktop version.

leaskovski · 30 Sep 2013 at 08:31

The BBC are moving away from flash videos on their website, so its hit or miss when it comes to watching stuff on the phone/tablet.

ajf · 30 Sep 2013 at 10:11

I normally use Dolphin like 'Efour' and this was what I thought it had worked with before.
No flash installed.
Not sure why it won't work. I know you can force load flash but as I said I thought BBC should detect a mobile bowser and play HTML5 version instead.

If I use my iPad they play fine so BBC plays HTML5 for sure.

Only thing I can think is I updated to 4.2 last week and probably haven't tried since then.

braveheart · 30 Sep 2013 at 13:34

Download this link: http://gapcode.com/latest/
It work for all android version so download this and will work fine with any browser but not chrome...

Orcvader · 30 Sep 2013 at 13:45

Or download it from the archive section of Adobe: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html

They still update it, but only for security reasons.

Morfik · 30 Sep 2013 at 15:08

It's annoying as the OP says that the BBC site wants to use Flash on Android instead of swapping to HTML5. It's an issue with the way the BBC servers have been setup I believe.

There's two solutions:

1) Swap to the mobile site when using Chrome on Android, it will use HTML5 video
2) Install Flash and Firefox (or an alternative) and open the BBC site, you'll be able to play it back.

Really though, the BBC needs to fix this.

KIA · 30 Sep 2013 at 17:20

Change the useragent to Mobile Safari.