[OT] the course on the brain was:Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?
On Wednesday 19 February 2014 04:04:40 Bob Bernstein wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have just finished one on the brain. Now, and I have a reason for asking this, after taking that brain course, were you left feeling more, or less, comfortable with your brain, such as it is now? More optimistic in terms of understanding and taking charge myself. But I also found it fascinating. A lot of the material is stuff you look for yourself on the internet, so you can chose the angle and level. The basic stuff is not really contoversial. This is a sulcus. This is a lobe. etc. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201402191632.05514.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?
List, good evening, I have Iceweasel on a Wheezy laptop, and I wanted to use it for an online educational course, which starts in a few days. The course will employ video (among other teaching methods). Checking that Iceweasel will play the video from the course website, Iceweasel loads a player from Vzaar and then displays a black box announcing Your browser does not support HTML5/mp4 video playback. If possible, please use a different browser to watch this video I'm a little bit cautious about installing other browsers and I feel more secure with Iceweasel because of the additional security-oriented plug-ins that are available (and we've used). But is there another browser that will 'support HTML5/mp4'? I also tried the same site and video on a Windows machine, with current Firefox and the current VLC plug-in, and had the same result, so I'm wondering whether the message is slightly misleading in suggesting that HTML5/mp4 is the problem. The Iceweasel announcement goes on to add or install Flash Player. and provides a link to the Adobe site. Possibly the site is using a Flash video and that this is, perhaps, the primary issue. If so, I guess I will have no open-source choice, and simply employ Adobe's Flash plug-in. I've not done that previously because the player is proprietary. The course introduction is here, https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/begin-programming-2014 That page contains the sample video I was testing. Using the Iceweasel 'page source' I couldn't see Flash or anything with '.swf' mentioned, though. What do others on the list use to play similar video material on Wheezy? Grateful for any comment, regards, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/53039087.4050...@tesco.net
Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?
Ron Leach writes: List, good evening, Your browser does not support HTML5/mp4 video playback. If possible, please use a different browser to watch this video Chromium/Chrome? The latter comes from a Google repository. deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_ African word //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamicomeaning I can \/ coltivatore diretto di software not install già sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso...Debian Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21251.37987.880717.121...@mail.eng.it
Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?
Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net writes: (snip) The Iceweasel announcement goes on to add or install Flash Player. and provides a link to the Adobe site. (snip) What do others on the list use to play similar video material on Wheezy? I installed the non-free package flashplugin-nonfree which exactly downloads it from Adobe so that Iceweasel can use it. It works fairly well and that's what I use. I also have the rtmpdump package installed: legal rights permitting, I expect that could be used to download the Flash video and something like mencoder could perhaps re-encode it into an open format of your choice, but that's a fair bit of effort reading manual pages and playing with options and I've not tried it myself, but if you wanted to go down that kind of route those are the places I'd start. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sirgball@ixod.org
Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?
On Tuesday 18 February 2014 16:55:35 Ron Leach wrote: What do others on the list use to play similar video material on Wheezy? I've done a couple of Futurelearn courses, and have just tried the video on yours. I can use both Iceweasel and Google Chrome. I haven't tried any other browser for this purpose. I have Flash installed, I'm afraid. (flashplugin-nonfree) I thought of doing that Java course, but there are so many interesting courses. I have just finished one on the brain. But you have wet my appetite for the Java course again Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201402182235.45215.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have just finished one on the brain. Now, and I have a reason for asking this, after taking that brain course, were you left feeling more, or less, comfortable with your brain, such as it is now? I've often imagined that, if I were put in charge of a good old-fashioned insane asylum, I would simply write out detailed directions for the inmates, showing them how to get out of the place. Then it dawned on me with stunning clarity that I had not taken account of my intended readership's, shall we say, um, somewhat special cognitive facilities. In short, I had not made adjustment for the fact that my readers were all psychotic and might not get the intended meaning of my escape booklet. God knows what they might see in it, right? So I extend that sort of thinking to brain courses. What would someone, like me, whose brain has taken a fair beating over the years (hey, it was the Sixties, what can I say?) get out of the course? Isn't it highly likely that a, shall we say, non-standard brain might not properly understand the course material? And hence go away very unhappy with the state of my poor little brain! Best regards, -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational metaphysical beliefs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.lnx.4.64.1402182247450.22...@fvkgvrffheivibe.bet
