rtsp URL's not supported

I am seeing something a little different. The url actually ends up at m.go.espn.com. I notice that the videos themselves come from a redirect to another site http://once.unicornmedia.com/

On the phone I get a new page telling me I already watched the video, but this is after some delay., and the url bar pops up twice, I assume once to redirect to the video which fails, then to go to the completion page.

FWIW on the desktop I get an mp4 video in Chromium.

Hey Michael: is that on phone or desktop? I guess the 3gp video format is what we're served because of our user-agent string not being recognized and downgraded to a lowe-res stream. We should be able to get HTML5 videos on most sites.

Still, we should see how to get that streamed back to the media hub for rendering.

this is on the phone, I'm seeing the same thing. attaching screenshot of error

bumping up the priority as espn is a very popular site and it works fine in Chrome from Android, so hopefully it will be an easy fix

RTSP is probably not what Android gets served in the end, but a more html5-ish format.
The suggestion is to try some overrides to try to obtain the same content.

I can confirm that with the android UA string we get served an mp4 video.

A UA override for m.espn.go.com and related content distributors should do the trick.

Interestingly, the layout of m.espn.com depends on the viewport width. So when testing on desktop with the mobile UA, we’re getting the right content (mp4 videos). Resizing the window to shrink it gets us the RTSP stream.

Changing the default UA string to "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Mobile Safari/535.19" (taken from https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent) for all outgoing requests gets us the right content.

However trying to selectively override the UA string only for the queries corresponding to espn.com and related domains doesn’t get me the right content, despite verifying that every single outgoing request when loading espn.com gets the override. I’m puzzled.

Here is the list of domains for which I set up an override, without success:

    /^http:\/\/espn\.com\//
    /^http:\/\/.*\.espn\.(go\.)?com\//
    /^http:\/\/.*\.espncdn\.com\//
    /^http:\/\/(\w+\.)*go\.com\//
    /^http:\/\/\w+\.chartbeat\.(net|com)\//
    /^http:\/\/once\.unicornmedia\.com\//
    /^http:\/\/ad\.doubleclick\.net\//
    /^http:\/\/b\.scorecardresearch\.com\//
    /^http:\/\/pagead2\.googlesyndication\.com\//

Kept on the radar, but not a show-stopper.

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+14.10.20141028~rtm-0ubuntu1

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  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Fix the override mechanism for navigator.userAgent, and add UA
    override rules for HSBC’s Brazilian mobile site and ESPN’s mobile
    site. (LP: #1316259)
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This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.23+15.04.20141029.1-0ubuntu1

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    site. (LP: #1316259)

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