Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:39:29 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, Thanks, Brad. NP. As I said, I could only alter Flash, and that made no difference. Still: Video can't be played because the file is corrupt. TBH, I'm not really sure what's happening, since the H264 codec

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:15:05 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, Sorry, Brad. You are assuming too much functioning brain power. H264 has only always and never. Flash has all three, but once I have set it You're right; I'd not noticed that before. Sorry. to ask to

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 15 November 2014 20:38:42 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:15:05 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, Sorry, Brad. You are assuming too much functioning brain power. H264 has only always and never. Flash has all three, but once I have set it

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 26 October 2014 18:21:59 Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:13:16 + St-Laurent, Pierre pstla...@odu.edu wrote: Hello Pierre, Type http://www.nordet.net/etc/noreaster.mp4; in the url bar I get Video can't be played because the file is corrupt. I don't see that

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:01:01 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, I can reproduce the problem on Iceweasel 33.1. I still have the same issues I reported previously, even with 33.1. A thought occurs; What plugin are you using for mp4 playback? I'm using VLC from DMO. --

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 November 2014 08:23:50 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:01:01 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, I can reproduce the problem on Iceweasel 33.1. I still have the same issues I reported previously, even with 33.1. A thought occurs; What plugin

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:56:08 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, Sorry, I allowed succinctness to over-ride clarity. My 33.1 doesn't play back mp4. I get the error message reported by the OP: I understood that although that wasn't clearly expressed in my answer to you. I

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 November 2014 09:18:22 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:56:08 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, Sorry, I allowed succinctness to over-ride clarity. My 33.1 doesn't play back mp4. I get the error message reported by the OP: I understood that

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/14/2014 10:23 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:01:01 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, I can reproduce the problem on Iceweasel 33.1. I still have the same issues I reported previously, even with 33.1. A thought occurs; What plugin are you

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:51:06 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, On Friday 14 November 2014 09:18:22 Brad Rogers wrote: True, although you're running Iceweasel from experimental by the look of it. No, back-ports. In that case, backports is currently running the same

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:00:15 +0200 Georgi Naplatanov go...@oles.biz wrote: Hello Georgi, You should install gstreamer1.0-libav (for Jessie). How does that help VLC? {time passes} I tried nevertheless, and saw no changes. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/14/2014 03:54 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 12:00:15 +0200 Georgi Naplatanov go...@oles.biz wrote: Hello Georgi, You should install gstreamer1.0-libav (for Jessie). How does that help VLC? I don't know about VLC, I had the impression that the problem is playing

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 November 2014 13:50:31 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:51:06 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, On Friday 14 November 2014 09:18:22 Brad Rogers wrote: True, although you're running Iceweasel from experimental by the look of it. No,

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread koanhead
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:00:03 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 14 November 2014 09:18:22 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:56:08 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to have missed my question about which plugin/backend Iceweasel is using to play the video.

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:48:48 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, I have two plugins there. Open H264 video codec and Shockwave Flash. The first says: Play back web video and use video chats. You should see a drop list next to them with three options; Always, Never Ask to

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:48:27 +0200 Georgi Naplatanov go...@oles.biz wrote: Hello Georgi, I don't know about VLC, I had the impression that the problem is playing videos in FireFox. That's right. The plugin I use calls VLC to do the actual playing. Playing H.264 videos in FireFox for Linux was

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 November 2014 21:04:26 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:48:48 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, I have two plugins there. Open H264 video codec and Shockwave Flash. The first says: Play back web video and use video chats. You should see a drop

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-11-14 Thread songbird
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 14 November 2014 21:04:26 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:48:48 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, I have two plugins there. Open H264 video codec and Shockwave Flash. The first says: Play back web video and use video chats.

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 08:41:11PM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:23:13 +, Brad Rogersb...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:56:12 + St-Laurent, Pierre pstla...@odu.edu wrote: Hello Pierre, Thanks Brad for giving it a try. You're welcome.

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-27 Thread Simon Hollenbach
On 27/10/14 07:18, Bob Holtzman wrote: Uhh, maybe look yet again. Mine says 24.6.0. To make sure I just ran apt-get update apt-get upgrade with no change to browser or system. I suggest to everyone wanting to know the available versions of some Debian package using packages.debian.org. For

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/10/14 18:45, Simon Hollenbach wrote: On 27/10/14 07:18, Bob Holtzman wrote: Uhh, maybe look yet again. Mine says 24.6.0. To make sure I just ran apt-get update apt-get upgrade with no change to browser or system. I suggest to everyone wanting to know the available versions of some

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-27 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:18:28 -0700, Bob Holtzmanhol...@cox.net wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 08:41:11PM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: -- 8 -- Look again - the version of Iceweasel in stable is 31.2.0, Debian has started to

iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-26 Thread St-Laurent, Pierre
Hi, I use debian stable (wheezy) on my amd-64 laptop. Somewhere over the last weeks my iceweasel stopped playing mp4 videos. I get the error message Video can't be played because the file is corrupt. iceweasel was playing the same video file perfectly fine a few weeks ago. I haven't changed

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:13:16 + St-Laurent, Pierre pstla...@odu.edu wrote: Hello Pierre, Type http://www.nordet.net/etc/noreaster.mp4; in the url bar I get Video can't be played because the file is corrupt. I don't see that report(1), but the video downloads so slowly (3 mins here) that

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-26 Thread St-Laurent, Pierre
I don't see that report I'm using iceweasel from experimental on a testing machine. Thanks Brad for giving it a try. I think this confirms that the problem only affects stable (wheezy). As a side note, the video runs fine on Internet Explorer and on Android. Thanks again for giving it a try,

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:56:12 + St-Laurent, Pierre pstla...@odu.edu wrote: Hello Pierre, Thanks Brad for giving it a try. You're welcome. I think this confirms that the problem only affects stable (wheezy). I had to look up the version supplied in stable. At v3.15.6 it's /ancient/ in

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-26 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:23:13 +, Brad Rogersb...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:56:12 + St-Laurent, Pierre pstla...@odu.edu wrote: Hello Pierre, Thanks Brad for giving it a try. You're welcome. I think this confirms that the problem only affects stable (wheezy). I had to

Re: iceweasel Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

2014-10-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:41:11 +0100 Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se wrote: Hello Andreas, Look again - the version of Iceweasel in stable is 31.2.0, Debian has Yes, you're right. I was looking in the wrong place (oldstable)(1). So, much of what I said ref apples and oranges is moot.