Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/28/2012 1:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Try: $clive -f best http://vimeo.com/24972836; Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it take hours?

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Try: $clive -f best http://vimeo.com/24972836; Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it take hours? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufCS2ad0eE Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Siard
Celejar: lee: Celejar: If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)? You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have an URL to try it with. I'm pretty sure wget doesn't handle such urls.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:24:12 +0200 Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: Celejar: lee: Celejar: If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)? You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/28/2012 1:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Try: $clive -f best http://vimeo.com/24972836; Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it take hours? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufCS2ad0eE Regards, Ralf On

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/25/2012 4:42 PM, lee wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508type=269page=248 Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up this message: You must install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin. Click here to

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-26 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:42:22 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508type=269page=248 Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up this message: You must install the Windows Media

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread lee
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:28 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: ... like someone else would and it doesn't

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Then install Adobe Flash Player and problem solved. It doesn't solve the problem. It will solve the problem of displaying Flash Player videos in the browser, what makes you think it won't? That isn't the problem. I removed the flashplayer library

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:52:10 -0400 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 02:22:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: I've used it many times to watch / download media that I couldn't access any other way.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:11:22 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:28 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread lee
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508type=269page=248 Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up this message: You must install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin. Click here to download and install the plugin. Or

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:20:20 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Sadly, we can't be sure on what the future will provide, so worrying know is useless and wasteful. The only we can do is having a Plan B, that's all. Like I said,

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread lee
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: Perhaps because they don't want people grabbing the videos and watching them without browsing to their site, or reposting them elsewhere? People have

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:16:03 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Like I said, nothing to worry about. Do you have a plan B? Yes, of course; the same approach that I've used for DMCA-friendly services: avoiding those that require from me a component which is not available

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Curt
On 2012-09-20, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hanlon's razor applies here as well. Huh? I wish Gillette's razor could be applied to some of these threads. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:28 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: ... like someone else would and it doesn't work, so I have no reason to

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 02:22:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: I've used it many times to watch / download media that I couldn't access any other way. How did you do that? The above was referencing gecko-mediaplayer and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:27:35 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Should that happens, you will have to choose: looking for a proper replacement of the plugin or simply avoid sites that make use of an unsupported feature in your system.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 03:11:59, lee wrote: Thank you! It doesn't seem to reasonably lead to anywhere. Maintaining a library of scripts that deal with particular websites which even continue to change how they present the videos to break such

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de writes: Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: Adobe says on their website: Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to provide security updates.[1] What's that supposed to mean? Will we soon

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: ... isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them so difficult for people that they can't

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:20:20 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Should that happens, you will have to choose: looking for a proper replacement of the plugin or simply avoid sites that make use of an unsupported feature in your system. And that isn't a good situation.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: ... isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites which are there to let people watch

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 05:30:29PM +0200, lee wrote: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. Testing it now... Let me guess: It doesn't work. I couldn't get it to work, but I may have

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 03:11:59, lee wrote: Thank you! It doesn't seem to reasonably lead to anywhere. Maintaining a library of scripts that deal with particular websites which even continue to change how they present the videos to break such scripts isn't something I would want to do, and I

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:27:35 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for other OSs. They could add features in the new version that make it impossible to play videos which are compatible with the new version

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have Chrome has

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.dewrote: Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: ... isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them so difficult for people that they can't watch the videos in the first place.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 20:15 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Fiddling around by semi-random clicking on stuff and reloading the page six or eight times sometimes works. In other words, patience is what's required. Deleting the cache, closing and opening the browser and last but not least rebooting

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Thx, I looked at that and there weren't any. Meanwhile, I tried gnash and found that it doesn't work at all. Lightspark depends on pulseaudio, and I don't want to install that. Are there any alternatives --- preferably using

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:28:30 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: (...) OTOH, html5 is now at the corner, my hope is that Flash Player for the web dies in a very near future... There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for other OSs. They could

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. Testing it now... Let me guess: It doesn't work. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:28:30 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: (...) There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for other OSs. They could add features in the new version that make it impossible to play

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 05:30:29PM +0200, lee wrote: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. Testing it now... Let me guess: It doesn't work. I couldn't get it to work, but I may have gotten a lead. Several web articles

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:42:57 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: interactive applications. Anyway, what trouble are you having with Adobe Flash Player? Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:42:57 +0200, lee wrote: There might be the problem that, in a while, you can't play videos with it anymore since Adobe says there aren't going to be any further releases. I don't know what their plans are, perhaps it just becomes

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Go Linux
--- On Sat, 9/15/12, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 11:08 PM Adobe says on their website: Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/18/2012 7:53 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Sat, 9/15/12, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 11:08 PM Adobe says on their website: Flash

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Go Linux
--- On Tue, 9/18/12, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: From: Mark Allums m...@allums.com Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 8:15 PM Some computers don't resume all the hardware properly.  If yours has

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: (...) What might they be using to play these videos? Where is configured what they use? (...) about:plugins will tell what other flash plugins are installed and available for your browser. Thx, I

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: flashgot I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. apt-get show clive -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: flashgot I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. apt-get show clive Sounds good, I'll try it, thank you

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: interactive applications. Anyway, what trouble are you having with Adobe Flash Player? Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings like you do in mplayer. It probably doesn't use

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: There used to be mozilla-mplayer, but it looks like it's not in the Squeeze repos. There is mozilla-plugin-vlc. Maybe give that a shot. Hmm, I just tried it and many of the videos on youtube and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 23:42 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: what trouble are you having with Adobe Flash Player? Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings like you do in mplayer. It probably

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: Peter Viskup skupko...@gmail.com writes: there is something like HTML5 already out. Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. Hmmm. They are saying I'm

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: How do I get h.264 support in seamonkey? It will probably happen eventually, but h.264 has patents, so it may not happen soon. You can always add it yourself through a plugin. But you may have to *write* the plugin yourself, and it may not be legal in some

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/16/2012 2:22 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and seamonkey supports Video-Tag and WebM (whatever that is) and doesn't support h.264. They are saying chromium supports all of it. How do I get h.264 support in

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Frank McCormick wrote: Chrome is the nonfree version. It is nonfree because it includes Flash and probably other nonfree things. Chromium is the free version and does not have Flash nor any other nonfree thing embedded. That is the specific difference

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: flashgot I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. $ pacman -Qi firefox Name : firefox Version: 15.0.1-1 Architecture : x86_64 $ pacman -Qi flashplugin Name : flashplugin Version:

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play

What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and both browsers still play videos. In

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Peter Viskup
On 09/16/2012 12:30 AM, lee wrote: Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 01:15 +0200, Peter Viskup wrote: there is something like HTML5 already out. Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. AFAIK HTML5 draft doesn't replace flash completely. Its

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: lee wrote: trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Peter Viskup skupko...@gmail.com writes: there is something like HTML5 already out. Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and seamonkey

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have Chrome has built-in Flash - it's called PepperFlash so it does not