Re: [CentOS] Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9

2013-08-13 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:

 On Monday 12 August 2013, Michael Hennebry
 henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:

 I've copied some files from the firefox cache.
 According to file, they are Macromedia Flash data (compressed),
  version 9. How do I play them locally?

 Download the Flash files using Video Download Helper:
 https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/?src=ss

Thanks.
It looks like it would be useful, but it does not solve my immediate problem.
I've got the file, but I cannot play it locally.

I've tried pointing firefox at it,
but firefox tells my that it is a bin file
and asks me whether I want to save it.

It seems to me that if firefox could play it from far away,
firefox should be able to play it on my computer.
So far, that seems not to be the case.

Do I need to point at the file through some HTML?

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Re: [CentOS] Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9

2013-08-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:51:58AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
 
  On Monday 12 August 2013, Michael Hennebry
  henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
 
  I've copied some files from the firefox cache.
  According to file, they are Macromedia Flash data (compressed),
   version 9. How do I play them locally?
 
  Download the Flash files using Video Download Helper:
  https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/?src=ss
 
 Thanks.
 It looks like it would be useful, but it does not solve my immediate problem.
 I've got the file, but I cannot play it locally.

Judging from a very cursory google, seems that there isn't one good answer
to this.  Therefore, you might try downloading the file again, using the
video download helper plugin that was recommended. 

I've used that successfully in the past--it will, if I just choose download
from the options, save an flv file (not compressed) in a directory it
creates, dwhelper. 

 It seems to me that if firefox could play it from far away,
 firefox should be able to play it on my computer.
 So far, that seems not to be the case.
 
What happens if you add .swf to the file's name.  (I haven't followed the
whole thread, you may have already done this.)


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Re: [CentOS] Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9

2013-08-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:48:40PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:


 On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:51:58AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
  On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
  
   On Monday 12 August 2013, Michael Hennebry
   henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
  
   I've copied some files from the firefox cache.
   According to file, they are Macromedia Flash data (compressed),
version 9. How do I play them locally?
  
 What happens if you add .swf to the file's name.  (I haven't followed the
 whole thread, you may have already done this.)

Just for fun, I just tried this.  It didn't work.  


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Re: [CentOS] Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9

2013-08-13 Thread Warren Young
On 8/13/2013 10:48, Scott Robbins wrote:

 It seems to me that if firefox could play it from far away,
 firefox should be able to play it on my computer.
 So far, that seems not to be the case.

 What happens if you add .swf to the file's name.

This doesn't work because Firefox proper doesn't play .swf files.  It 
hands it off to the Flash Plugin.

So, one method is to write a simple .html file, embedding the Flash 
Plugin, naming the file you have:

 https://www.google.com/?q=embed+flash+player

Another method is to open the file with Chrome, since Chrome *does* have 
Flash playback built-in.

There's a problem here, which is that without the embed stuff, Chrome 
doesn't know how big to make the SWF object, so it fills the whole 
content area.  It doesn't even maintain the proper aspect ratio, since 
Chrome doesn't know that, either.  If this is important to you, you'll 
need to write the embed stuff regardless.

On Windows, there are Flash Player programs that overcome this problem 
in other ways, but I don't know of any for Linux.
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[CentOS] Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9

2013-08-12 Thread Michael Hennebry
I've copied some files from the firefox cache.
According to file, they are Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9.
How do I play them locally?
I saw them from a remote site through firefox,
but I cannot seem to play them locally.
neither mplayer nor vlc seems to work.
Pointing firefox at them didn't work either.
Any ideas?

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Re: [CentOS] Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 9

2013-08-12 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Monday 12 August 2013, Michael Hennebry 
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:

 I've copied some files from the firefox cache.
 According to file, they are Macromedia Flash data (compressed),
  version 9. How do I play them locally?

Download the Flash files using Video Download Helper:
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/?src=ss

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