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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop Firefox 42.0 Shockwave Flash 11.2.202.548 / 11.2 r202 AMD 64

All I can get from NHK World Live TV streaming (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/) is:

Live streaming not available on this browser.

RT works fine. CCTV works fine.

So one assumes it's an NHK problem?

Anyone else have this problem? Does NHK work for you?. Is it just me?

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  • Does not work in Chrome either. Dec 1, 2015 at 16:11
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    They are doing really funky browser and feature checking it seems: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/javascripts/nw_live_player.js - Very friendly: "case "Linux" → error. Simple user agent faking doesn't seem to help, but some custom script might. Think Greasemonkey.
    – TBR
    Dec 1, 2015 at 20:32
  • You should try to contact them over what @TBR said - the if Linux: error thing in their code is just wrong.
    – user423626
    May 12, 2016 at 14:18

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As mentioned in my comment they do weird checking and error out in case of Linux.

Some digging through the JavaScript finds a nice URL: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/app/tv/hlslive_tv.xml -- the URLs listed there can be fed to VLC and play just fine. Second from the top labelled 'wstream' seems to be what you are looking for.

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