I like watching the FNN News streaming video, as each segment is individually divided from the others so they are short, and they have a transcript in English and in Japanese.

However, the Japanese within the Flash window of the screen is all gobbledygook, and looks like it's using the wrong coding so I can't read it. However, all the rest of the page, the normal HTML is rendered correctly. I know how to change encoding for a page, but how do you change it inside the Flash object itself? I'm using Firefox. Any help would be immeasurably appreciated.

fnn news doesn't work for me anymore? the video doesn't load anyone else have this problem? i tried on internet explorer/firefox and safari since it told me it might not work depending on the connection you use or something.

I get this error:

http://img441.imageshack.us/i/35364470.jpg/

I get the crazy letters and the error as well. The video works for me when I use windows media player though.

Update your Flash player to the latest version-- a new version just came out.

I have no problems at all with the site, renders just fine in Flash, and I'm accessing with a US PC from a US IP address.

If that doesn't do the trick, you might want to make sure you've enabled JP code tables for non-Unicode Programs. In Win7, go to Control Panel: Region & Language: Admin Tab: Languages for Non-Unicode Programs: Change System Locale and then select Japanese, then reboot.

THEN reinstall Flash.

That might make it work. That's how I run my system, and it seems to work just fine in Firefox.

When I try to watch the news on FNN, I get messages telling me I'm out of region and that I can't watch, but the error messages only show up arbitrarily, and not for each video. Sometimes I can watch almost every segment, but other times I can only watch one or two. The fact that it's so unpredictable is annoying, so I've switched to TBS.

Nuriko Wrote:When I try to watch the news on FNN, I get messages telling me I'm out of region and that I can't watch, but the error messages only show up arbitrarily, and not for each video. Sometimes I can watch almost every segment, but other times I can only watch one or two. The fact that it's so unpredictable is annoying, so I've switched to TBS.

Never had that problem, strange...

FNN News is one of the best learning resources available. I think a person could become fluent reading the transcripts out loud with the aid of Rikaichan, and watching the clips as their only study technique. Though, it would be a boring path for many people who aren't interested in such things. If news is an interest for you, it is a gold mine.

bodhisamaya Wrote:FNN News is one of the best learning resources available. I think a person could become fluent reading the transcripts out loud with the aid of Rikaichan, and watching the clips as their only study technique. Though, it would be a boring path for many people who aren't interested in such things. If news is an interest for you, it is a gold mine.

I'm doing that for something else, there a jp person playing FF8(youtube play-through) and he reads out everything. I've been noticing I have no trouble reading along with him. If I applied this to everything else(i.e. shadowing for news). Man my reading,listening,speech would definitely get a huge boost up. So expect improvement if you keep this up!