THere's an article up at animenewsnetwork.com about Funi not streaming FMA:B episodes. They don't know if it's temporary or not...

@Envy II - No problem! Thank you for the report! ^^


Yeah, basically it's reporting that Funimation is not streaming FMA: B at the moment.
You can read it on ANIMENEWSNETWORK. No new development, and we're still doing "wait and see."

It's temporary, for FMA at least.

FUNimation's Twitter updated with this today:

"Today we are implementing addl security for all videos. When this is in place, we will reactivate FMA. We're sorry for the inconvenience."

I figured the Funi hold was temporary and it's great to hear actual confirmation. I wonder how the additional security will be handled...

@Envy II - Aha, that's good to know!! Thank you for bringing that info!!

I'm soooo happy! The fansubs of episode 9 was really bad, and it's great to know that I can at least watch Funi's subs! Thanks, EnvyII for the info!!

FMA:B is back up on Funi's site. Still episode 9 wont be out until tomorrow. Just thought I'd let you guys know.

Hooray!!!! Thank you for the good news!!!

Edited and updated the info pages accordingly.

Sweet! I've definitely been digging the Funi subs way more than some of the fansubs - some have been a bit 'meh' as of late...

The last time I tried to watch FMA:B on Funimation's site, the episode took forever to load so after a while I just gave up. So I don't know how well they translated it, but Eclipse's fansubs are always pretty good.

For me, Funi's stuff loads up pretty fast (the major exception was the first episode) but since they also have it up on Hulu and their Youtube channel, it's pretty easy to get a hold of. Just know that the Youtube and Hulu episodes are two eps. behind the ones on Funi's site.

As for the fansubs, I end up going with Eclipse...but I have issues with some of their translations...episode 5 coming to mind...

As Kale Mustang said, trying to watch the first episode on the first day on Funimation.com was rather painful. But, since then, it has been fairly reliable and fast, and just as Kale Mustamg has mentioned, if it's a couple weeks old episode, then Hulu (another licensed carrier of Funimation subbed episodes) is an excellent place to watch these episodes. And, I'm fairly happy with the subs by Funimation, with no major mistakes to think of so far.
I think Eclipse used to have a good reputation, yet, with that major translation oops on episode 5 I think it kind of exposed how vulnerable fansubs are to translation mistakes, even some so-called reputable ones.

To the person who said that Funimation's episodes load slow on their website: It only happens to me when I'm on my laptop it seems like. Maybe about five to 10 mins, or sometimes not even at all. But when I get on the family computer, the episodes only take two to three minutes.

The episodes are back up now, and episode 9 will be come on at the usual time. (according to FUNimation's Twitter.)

more episodes of other series funimation is streaming have just been leaked again even ( phantom ep 10 )

Funimation denies this on ann's forum...but expect another leak of one piece....and probably more downtime on funimation's side of things until they learn some real website security.

The weird thing is that FMA:Brotherhood Episode 9 is up on the site, and they show it as if it's supposed to be on there right now. o_O

I thought that Funimation took FMA episodes off their websites? Because I couldn't get it to work.

confirmation that fma:b ep 9 was leaked as well.

edit: update with Funimation's lawyer and an Anime News Network staff member denying the leak without even first confirming the veracity of such rumors.

(from http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2...p=786788#786788 )


then some shaddy defending by one of ann's staff


after the screenshots were posted, the ann guy replies back with:




Really pathetic...

Yeah the idea that fansubs are better than the official release never makes sense to me and this proves it. Slicer the Homicide wasn't very pretty either. But I guess for speed subs they are not that bad. I watch them because I am impatient but I always watch Funi's subs later in the week for the better translation and also to support what they are doing.

Okay, since everyone's saying that Funimation's official translations are better, I guess I'll start watching them later in the week. They come out on Thursdays, right?

Yeah, except for this week, where it oddly came out a few hours ago.

Thank you, asunder for that interesting info! Hmm, one would think that in preparation for the streaming of these Japanese anime episodes, Funimation might have beefed up the security beforehand, but I guess that wasn't the case. And, from the sound of it they haven't done much even after the incident?? And, the upshot of it is that we end up being able to watch episode 9 one day earlier than the normal scheduled date? Ok, I take that. XD
But seriously, I hope they would be able to tighten some security.

no they added security to the flash video files they used to stream the video
normally one would be able to download the video using a plug in (friends of mine did this to keep them on a hard drive - although this is still possible on the youtube videos)
now that ad at the beginning acts as a barrier (in computer lingo turned into english, even though they had this before, the ad and the video were separate files, now the ad is seemingly "bundled" and acts to deter the files detection)

Umm, that would prevent hackers from uploading the episode prematurely to Funimation.com site and made them available before the scheduled date?

No hacking of servers were involved. Only because of a really poor job by funimation, anyone with some basic google skills could figure out that the flv files were hosted at
Other 'streaming sites' were directly linking the .flv files <___<

after one piece got 'taken' the first time a few days ago, they did a bit of renaming of the series name, but still in a same filename format as above. Funimation (or whatever company they outsource to) basically uploaded the file for public access ahead of when it was supposed to be streamed. Some eager fan downloaded it and distributed it.

^ Ohh. Thank you for that info. ^^

Did a little poking around and Elemental/Alchemist was right about the protection of the ad file on Funi's site. My flash file detector in Firefox could only locate the ad file, but not the file for FMA ep. 9. Downloaded the flash file for the ad out of curiosity - and it's just the ad. At least Funi's being smart and hosting the episodes elsewhere and not directly on their servers - which they should've done from the beginning.

yea a lot of companies fix this, its a simple host to find.. and of course one wouldn't want premature viewing..., but legal issues abound for downloading anyway and it's very convenient for the average user who likes to rely on plug ins to scan for files and download... @Kale Mustang noted the added bonus is that now the video not only is hosted somewhere else but that the ad will be picked up by the scan first and remain the only source to download...
of course, if u really want to download them, wait till they're on youtube

I'll just wait until the newer eps. are on their youtube channel... Funimation is being absolute moronic right now...

Thanks, everyone for the info.
The upshot is that for now episodes are back on Funiation.com, and viewing on Hulu has been going fine with no interruptions, so I guess for most of users it's "back to normal" for now, and, hopefully they don't get messed up again.

Well whatever Funimation did to boost security I can only watch the ad and can no longer watch the actual show.

How so?

Once the ad loads up, it goes straight to the episode as the episode's already pre-loaded while the ad runs. Practically no waiting for the video to load.

Not for me. All I get is a black screen and a little red error message on the corner. This happens with all the videos. I tried on IE and Firefox and I have the same issue. My adobe flash player is up to date too.

How weird... I was able to get the videos to load on 3 different computers (2 Mac & 1 PC) with several different browsers (Firefox, Safari, Camino, & Chrome).

@Kirara - Mmm... I just tested with my computer, and it's working fine on my computer with FireFox...so, it could be something on your computer setting? How about the Funimation subbed episodes on HULU? Can you watch them? (yeah, I know they are 2 weeks behind, but I'm just curious if the ones on HULU works on your computer. ^^)

I'm able to watch the videos just fine, and it loads really quickly.

Yes I can watch the episodes on youtube and Hulu just not on Funimation's site. It's just frustrating because I have no idea what the problem is or what I can do to fix it. I do use "No Script" which blocks Java Script from untrusted sites but I uninstalled it from Firefox and it is still not working. And not to mention I already had Funimation as a trusted site.

@Kirara - I think asunder posted while ago that the Funimation.com videos are hosted at "http://video.funimation.com" site. Maybe try adding that also? Don't know if that helps, but you can try... ^^

I think Funimation's entire site is trusted for me whether it is the main or video site. But I don't think it has anything to do with No Script anyways because it is no longer installed on my computer and the video is still not playing. But thanks for trying to help, I appreciate it.

@Kiara

Have you tried clearing your cache and cookies in your browser? Maybe the security authentication is failing because those files may be outdated.

Thanks for the suggestion but it's still not working. Well I sent an E-mail to Funimation about this so we will see if they will get back to me.

@Kirara - Good idea. I was just checking the forum asunder has posted to see if any similar case has been mentioned, but so far I don't see any. Let us know how it goes when you hear back from them.
(Or, maybe some other members here can give better help. ^^)

try uninstalling and reinstalling adobe flash

Thank you for another suggestion but I was actually able to finally get the video to work without doing anything. I am not sure why it worked now and not before but I am not complaining.

@ Kirara: Well that's good news. I wonder what was wrong with it before.

Just giving everyone a heads-up.

For anyone trying to access videos on Funimation's site, it currently down for maintenance.

Oh, thanks, Kale Mustang for the heads-up! ^^

@Kirara - Glad to hear it's working now.

Now I'm sad, because I've been waiting to watch them on FUNimation's site instead of resorting to fansubs. I really want to see this episode!

Anyways, FUNimation's Twitter updated about an hour ago with this regarding the Video Portal:

"BTW, we are very close to seeing the return of the video portal. We are testing it now. Should hear more soon."

The "maintenance" is making the security better. Which although I've hated it being down for so long, security is something they really need... and I hope that this new security will let us get the One Piece Simulcast back.

@Envy II - Thank you so much for the update!! I'm waiting for the video portal at Funimation.com to be on agin also, but at least that sounds hopeful. I will remain hopeful that it will be back on soon. ^^

Yeah, I checked earlier to see if it was up, only to find it still down.

Ah well, I've got other things to keep me occupied until it comes back up. Now if Funimation would update their youtube & Hulu channels...