Joey Wendt

I have had multiple problems that have confused me while all I want to do is go back and rewatch some of the previous episodes of Lost.  First I thought I saved the day because I finally got the new player to work, kind of got it working is a better way to describe it.  If you found this post by searching for ways to make the new player work then you are aware that a lot of people are upset because it just doesn’t simply work like the old one did.  I am not going to guarantee that what worked for me will work for you, but it is worth a shot.  Below is a guide to getting the Move Media player installed correctly.

Installing the Move Media Player - First since most likely you already have the Move Media player installed, you are going to need to uninstall it by going to Add/Remove Programs and uninstalling it.  Once you have it removed, go back to abc.com and go to the full episode player.  If you uninstalled it properly you should once again see the EULA for the online player,  Accept the agreement (or don’t if you don’t accept it), on the next page you will see a “Begin Install” button, click it (make sure you don’t close out the window with the “Begin install” button).  Once you are prompted to Open/Save/Cancel the file choose the Save option, for ease of access save it to your desktop.  Now, right click the file and select properties (it will be MoveMediaPlayer something or whatever you named it), once the dialog is open, click on the “Unblock” button towards the bottom, then “OK”.  Now double click the icon to install, once completed the webpage will detect that it has been installed and you should see a small clip playing if successful.

Edit: This problem resolved.

As I said, this kind of works and if you are scratching your head or calling me stupid here is what went down.  For internet I have Comcast and also a Verizon Wireless USB727 Modem.  On my computer connected via Comcast I followed the above instructions but it didn’t get my ABC player working.  However, with the above instructions it now works fine with my Verizon card.

I am really leaning towards believing that Comcast is filtering my traffic (not like they have been guilty of doing it before or anything).  The reason I think this is because when I turn on my laptop’s wifi and disconnect my verizon card and go to play an episode of lost, it asks me if I want to view in standard quality or HD, choosing either just leads me to a black screen that does nothing.  Turn off the wifi, connect with verizon card, asks me which quality then bam I see an Ad and then enjoy my show but since I only have 5 gigs of data I cant use it to watch videos.

Some good news though, I tried the link through our local ABC affiliate KTBS’s website and I am once again able to watch videos, thank goodness for lack of updated links.  If you want, try it yourself.

I was about to post this but then it hit me to try tunneling through a SSH tunnel.  With my traffic flowing securely though the tunnel I am now able to watch ABC shows with the new player.  Part of me wants to say because the other end of my tunnel is accross the country and so there is a different ABC affilliate which is case with the verizon card in that I see a different ABC affiliate in the window.  Which might lead me to believe some lack of updating on KTBS’s part but that seems highly doubtful that they would have anything to do with ABC.com besides having their stations logo autoembeded based a user’s IP location.  The other part is thinking that by tunneling somehow Comcast cannot filter my encrypted traffic which makes me believe their filtering BAD COMCAST BAD!!!

Edit: This problem resolved.

If you have any thoughts, questions or ideas leave a comment or Contact Me.

Update 10:03:08: I contacted http://twitter.com/comcastcares earlier today via email and the Comcast engineer’s are going to take a look at some things or so I was told, hopefully they will be able to sort it out.  In the meantime, back to tunneling through my webserver…