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Title: Active TV Not very active on DSM520
Post by: tshaff09 on February 08, 2009, 04:51:22 PM

I have installed on my computer the most recent ActiveTV. I can get to menu choices thru the DSM 520, but cannot actually play any online videos. Example - You tube - All videos I've tried are "unplayable". Hulu plays the intro ad then noithing. Aol Video just clocks when selected. I can play Hulu and Youtube OK thru Active TV on my computer. .... What's wrong and how do I make work?

Title: Re: Active TV Not very active on DSM520
Post by: fccgrant on February 09, 2009, 10:18:27 AM

See this message.

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=4097.msg23466#msg23466

In a nutshell, all of these web streamers change the way they distribute their videos which will break Active TV.  YouTube was the only one I was able to figure out how to get working again. 

Hulu and AOL have been 'broken' for awhile. 

Also, check out http://active-tv.blogspot.com/

Title: Re: Active TV Not very active on DSM520
Post by: tshaff09 on February 09, 2009, 06:43:23 PM

Thanks for the info. Your HTML allowed me to play youtube. Then I installed playon, and it seemed to overwrite activetv. Playon does hulul sofar :)

Title: Re: Active TV Not very active on DSM520
Post by: fccgrant on February 10, 2009, 06:02:00 AM

Yeah...Playon and Active TV can't be on the same computer.  Playon will uninstall it.  But YouTube is on Playon so that might be OK.

Title: Re: Active TV Not very active on DSM520
Post by: tjd on February 11, 2009, 10:20:19 AM

active tv is a subset of playon from the same vendor-themediamall.com

Title: Re: Active TV Not very active on DSM520
Post by: Rock06 on March 09, 2009, 09:40:42 AM

Too bad playon is only a free trial.

Title: Re: Active TV Not very active on DSM520
Post by: fccgrant on March 09, 2009, 10:14:03 AM

I remember when they had Hulu beta on Active TV.  That was the cheese!  Worked great until last October.