Podcast Library Episodes won't play in Chrome and Firefox

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Podcast Library Episodes won't play in Chrome and Firefox

I've done a clean install of Lion Server (10.7.1) on one of our machines and successfully set up the collaboration services including the podcast library. Unfortunately when I publish a podcast episode to the library I can preview the episode in Safari (5.1), but not in Chrome or Firefox (6). When I look at the apache logs on the server I see the GET request for the video when using Safari, however in both Chrome and Firefox not GET request is ever generated. Has anyone else run into this issue ? If so have you resolved it ?

I have used several different version of both Chrome and Firefox with the same result. No error is generated. I should also not that the other features of Wiki Server 3 work as advertised in my browser.

Any help or insight would be appreciated. I'm continuing to look into the problem and will post any information that I obtain.

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Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Aug 26, 2011 1:32 PM

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attymullins Author

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Aug 26, 2011 1:59 PM in response to attymullins

I should have added that the movies are Quicktime and I have the Quicktime plugin installed in both Firefox and Chrome. Also I am able to view other Quicktime movies in Firefox and Chrome, just not from the Podcast Library in Lion Server.

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Aug 31, 2011 12:56 PM in response to attymullins

I'm having the same issue, but it's with all browsers

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attymullins Author

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Sep 1, 2011 11:47 AM in response to strickforce

I'm still trying to track the problem down. Just out of curiosity, are you allowing anybody to view the podcasts or are you restricting to authenticated users ? I noticed that when I restricted to authenticated users I can't view the podcast episodes in any browser.

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Sep 7, 2011 6:05 AM in response to attymullins

I'm allowing anybody to view the podcasts. I've also tried limiting it to authenticated users, but regardless of whether I login or not, I have the same results.

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Sep 15, 2011 9:35 AM in response to attymullins

Same problem.

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Sep 19, 2011 5:30 AM in response to attymullins

I've looked into the apache web logs (/var/log/apache2/access_log), but I'm not even seeing a request for the video file in the logs. The last requests are for some javascript and that's it.

Could this possibly be to an SSL issue? Of course I get the certificate warnings when I access the lion podcast page (either locally or from another computer) but I always accept the certificate and continue. I don't think it is because, as I stated above, I can access the video file directly via a web browser (I found the link to the video in the page source). I just can't view/stream it through the podcast site.

I ran the latest security update just this morning (1.0?) and it had no effect.

Replies and likes are very helpful. I know others are having the same issue and I would like to draw Apple's atttention to this. Thank you.

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warrior7

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Sep 23, 2011 9:02 AM in response to attymullins

Same issue here. Upgraded a SL Server to Lion. Can view Podcasts just in Safari desktop. Podcasts stored in Lion server cannot be viewed using Chrome, Firefox and Safari iPad.

In my case it doesn´t matter if Podcast is public or restricted.

Would be great to see if anybody is able to see Lion server podcasts using FF or Chrome..

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Oct 17, 2011 7:38 AM in response to warrior7

After last week's update I was able to play podcast videos in Chrome. Firefox and Safari still aren't working, though.

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vhinzkie

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Oct 12, 2012 12:21 AM in response to strickforce

Any good results on this problem?

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Xikowisk

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Nov 27, 2016 9:50 AM in response to attymullins

Eu não sou obrigado a usar o navegador que vocês querem. Isso é monopólio. Já deu errado pra Microsoft com o IE no passado. A pergunta é: Quando vai poder acessar pelos navegadores?

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