deltasalmon wrote:
Not sure if this belongs in this thread or a separate one but I was also wondering something about TG4. I see they have an android app in the google play store but its not compatible with any of my devices. I tried watching TG4 on my tablet last night but I guess it uses flash or some other technology that's not compatible with android.
Does anyone know of a way to watch TG4 on an android tablet? Another thing that might be preventing me is my location (USA).
I've had a similar problem trying to watch in on my Kindle Fire. Sometimes a program will load and start to play, only to stall as soon as I try to go to full-screen. Then I get a message saying the video cannot be played. Once that happens, I can't even get a program to try to load unless I restart the Kindle. I have yet to be able to watch an entire program at full-screen on the tablet, which is kind of a bummer, as the screen resolution is so much better than my laptop's!
Usually the program will play if I keep it on the small screen, but there's not a lot of point in doing that.
I'm not sure what the issue is. As far as I know, TG4 does use Flash...at least they used to (I know because I would occasionally get a prompt to download the newest Flash player). I didn't realize that Flash isn't compatible with Android. I guess YouTube uses something else then, as I have no trouble watching YouTube videos.
I don't think it's a location issue, as TG4 works fine on my laptop -- well, normally it does, anyway, and it seems to be working again now -- and I'm in the U.S.. It also worked fine on my desktop back when I was still using it. I've been assuming it was a compatibility problem with Amazon's "Silk" browser (I have noticed in the past that the TG4 player can be persnickety about browsers) rather than the Android platform, but maybe I'm wrong about that.