30 April 2009

How to watch ABC.com shows on Windows 7

For some reason ABC.com does an OS check when loading the MoveNetworks player.  If you are using Windows 7 you’ll see an error like this:

Oops
Our new video player is only available for:
Windows XP/Vista - Internet Explorer, Firefox
Mac - Firefox, Safari.
To watch, please download the appropriate browser.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can get around this by first installing the player from MoveNetworks.com

http://www.movenetworks.com/install-move-player

Install the player and then go back to the ABC site and reload the player.  You may need to close and reopen browser.

 

UPDATE: Going directly to this URL might work too:

http://fep.abc.go.com/fep/player?src=abccomjs&show=93372&pn=index 

 

Jon

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# How to watch ABC.com shows on Windows 7 | Microsoft Share Point said:

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01 May 09 at 3:21 AM
# egcarter said:

Doesn't work for me.   I still get the error message at abc.com after the Move Networks player is successfully installed.

01 May 09 at 5:11 AM
# Webstarr said:

Thanks for the useful info, let's see if it works. Anyway windows 7 is still giving me errors on other few things.

01 May 09 at 5:32 AM
# jongallant said:

egcarter - It only worked for me after I restarted IE.  Make sure you can play the test video on the MoveNetworks install page and then restart your browser.  If that doesn't work then maybe try with FireFox.

01 May 09 at 12:55 PM
# dhuang said:

Thanks! Installing the movenetworks.com player/plugin in firefox 3 totally fixed it. Time to watch LOST!

23 May 09 at 2:39 AM
# OverTheAIRViewer said:

Your fix works great with windows 7 & IE 8.0! Thanks!

06 June 09 at 12:23 AM
# Leap Year said:

Make sure you have both Move Player and Adobe flash install.  It works for me.  

04 August 09 at 12:47 AM
# tidusvn05 said:

Thanks for the useful info, let's see if it works. Anyway windows 7 is still giving me errors on other few things.

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