Need help viewing non-USA videos.

[dixiegrrrrl]

"The video you are trying to watch cannot be viewed from your location".

Says Al-Jazeera video site
and often BBC sites.

Ok..is there a Firefox app/workaround for this?
I hate censorship, hate it.....hate it!

Thank you in advance...

[Sanity Claws]

1. I'd love to know this too

I get similar messages from CBC and RTE when I try to watch their shows.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I found this page of various options.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/vpns-are-old-better-ways-to-access-region-blocked-video/

I do not need video streaming like Netflix or Hulu, cause our ISP is too damn slow.
But I want to download stuff that I can watch later in my own player.

Actually, a surprising amount of stuff is available on YouTube, I have found.

[PrestonLocke]

2. I believe its IP based

In that case, you could try a proxy.

[Galileo126]

3. I agree

It definitely is an IP thing. (I get blocked from some Canada sites when trying to view videos. Discovery-Canada is one, for example.)

If you can "fool" the server with an IP from the host country, I betcha it would work.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Hmmmm...guess it is time to explore proxies.

Have had several other reasons to consider using one.
NOt being able to view NEWS videos from BBC or AJ really ticks me off.

[gvstn]

5. I haven't tried this in quite some while.

I know there were ways to download the videos and then watch them later.

I just tried the FF addon MediaHint and it seemed to allow streaming of BBC. It allowed me access to a few radom shows that would not play if I tried them in a browser without the addon. You might give it a quick look. https://mediahint.com/

The other one mentioned is Hola http://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/176xvn/hola_unblocker_lets_you_access_the_bbc_iplayer/

They are just addons, so easy to remove if you don't like them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. So helpful!

Long term plan is to become educated in Proxy stuff
but this is an interim fix, hopefully.

thanks...

[PrestonLocke]

7. Great alternative!

If it's on the internet only for a minute, its on there forever!

[TroglodyteScholar]

9. Proxy

Search the page out with this tool: https://www.ixquick.com/

In the search results, don't click the main link... click the text that says "proxy."