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[S] Videos at IMDb
Apr. 16, 2011, 06:40 AM (This post was last modified: Jun. 12, 2011 11:41 PM by Kye-U.)
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[S] Videos at IMDb
I've been trying to find out what's blocking the movie trailers at IMDb - like the one linked by the "watch trailer" button on this page. I found that bypassing i.media-imdb.com/ will allow the trailer to play, but that's not an ideal solution because IMDb loads a lot from that address including backgrounds that I like to filter. So with hours of experimenting, I narrowed it to a particular set of exceptions that will allow the video.

Two of the exceptions were already in my list, as well as 3 more that allow js links. I added the new one below the other 5 and things were working. BUT.... after deciding that that wasn't the cleanest look for the list and moving the new one up with the old ones, the video stopped working. This has been confirmed with repeated tests.

So for example, this works

Code:
## imdb trailers
i.media-imdb.com/         $SET(0=a_js.)
www.imdb.com/         $SET(0=i_noscr:2.)

## allow imdb photo/video links to work
i.media-imdb.com/            $SET(0=a_jslink.)
static.ak.fbcdn.net/            $SET(0=a_jslink.)
www.imdb.com/            $SET(0=a_jslink.)

## allow imdb trailers to play
i.media-imdb.com/            $SET(0=a_adscr.)

But this doesn't:

Code:
## allow imdb photo/video links to work
i.media-imdb.com/            $SET(0=a_jslink.)
static.ak.fbcdn.net/            $SET(0=a_jslink.)
www.imdb.com/            $SET(0=a_jslink.)

## allow imdb trailers to play
i.media-imdb.com/         $SET(0=a_js.)
www.imdb.com/         $SET(0=i_noscr:2.)
i.media-imdb.com/            $SET(0=a_adscr.)

Why does the order here matter?

I should add that the video, inexplicably, did play once without the new exception.

It's frustrating to say the least. If there's a proxo-scientific method for narrowing these things down to the precise offender and knowing where to place them in the list, I'm not aware of it. I've been staring at the log and the dbug page for hours while unchecking/reloading and adding various keyword codes to the Exceptions-U list after "i.media-imdb.com". It seems like it should be simpler than this. I thought using the dbug page and looking for matched code was the proper method, but the only matched code with "i.media-imdb.com" in it was triggered by the "Remove: Ad Scripts - Noscript" filter. Unchecking that one didn't help. I finally decided to add "0=a_adscr" to the Exceptions list because it was listed in the "site" keywords at the bottom of the video container.

Is there a step by step method for discovering the cause of issues like these where the goal is to minimize the limits placed on the filter?
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[S] Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Apr. 16, 2011 06:40 AM
RE: Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Apr. 16, 2011, 07:09 PM
RE: Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Apr. 17, 2011, 07:40 AM
RE: Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Apr. 18, 2011, 02:40 AM
RE: Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Apr. 18, 2011, 06:02 AM
RE: Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Apr. 18, 2011, 03:12 PM
RE: Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Apr. 19, 2011, 10:45 PM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Jun. 24, 2011, 03:53 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Jun. 25, 2011, 03:19 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Jun. 28, 2011, 07:24 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Jun. 30, 2011, 04:32 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Jul. 04, 2011, 01:32 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Jul. 04, 2011, 03:38 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Jul. 04, 2011, 07:57 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Jul. 04, 2011, 02:30 PM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Jul. 07, 2011, 06:00 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Jul. 08, 2011, 01:44 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Jun. 29, 2011, 04:35 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Jul. 08, 2011, 09:16 PM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Jul. 09, 2011, 12:19 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - zoltan - Jul. 09, 2011, 06:53 AM
RE: [S] Videos at IMDb - JJoe - Jul. 09, 2011, 02:13 PM

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