Todd Walton wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:54 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
>> Here's one (format) that doesn't seem to work in Linux Mint:
>>   http://www.layersmagazine.com/quick-selection-and-refine-edges-part-1.html
> 
> Yep.
> 
> Firefox 2.0.0.12.  Adobe Flash Player.  Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.
> 

Hmmm, I get a "this video requires Adobe Flash Player underneath a gray
embedded-window. Oh waitaminute, I changed some advanced javascript
options, and now I get a black box, but right clicking only says "open
with totem" .. which is not productive. :-)

Pardon me TW (and onlookers) if my questions are not properly posed -- I
am still a debian-n00bie.

Did you install flash from a repository (nonfree?, what?) or from adobe
tarball or what?.

I get:
dpkg -s flashplugin-nonfree
...
Architecture: i386
Version: 9.0.48.0.2+really0ubuntu12
...

What do you see?
Can you think of other things I should do?


OK waitsomemore. On another system (Linux Mint box#1), I get a
mplayerplugin window, and it reports a sequence like buffering, playing,
stopped. Not working but different symptom! It's a Linux Mint box#2 that
prompted my original question. Now, what did I do different? Arggh?

I seriously dislike this stuff. If I weren't dedicated to nonviolence, I
would be tempted to use the 0x47ate word. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@!

The mplayer plugin does allow 'save as'. I try that, and then run from
the command line as
 mplayer -vo <?> postad.flv
where the -vo <?> can be omitted altogether, or
where <?> can be gl, x11 or xv, and I get output containing
...libavformat file format detected.
[swf @ 0x87940a8]Compressed SWF format not supported
LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed


Alright I go looking for libavformat stuff, and I find it on my F7, but
that's x86_64 for which there doesn't seem to be a usable flash version. :-(

No libavformat on my ubu/mint boxen -- what about yours, Todd?
Any answer to:
 dpkg -S libavformat*

Now, I'm remembering something about ffmpeg, gstreamer .. and now this
is giving me an even bigger headache. I think I'll go have a beer.


Regards,
..jim (what was wrong with text anyhow?)


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