-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: > What we need now is an open source equivalent of the latest > flashplayer
No, what we need is to educate the mass media outlets et. al. that free software exists that does not require them to spend $$$ on licenses for proprietary software that has been limiting their advertising reach to yet more eyeballs. - --Bob, who remains ever optimistic and naive. On 19/07/15 03:38 PM, Ken Heard wrote: > On 2015-07-19 12:36, Kevin Cozens wrote: > >> On 15-07-19 11:46 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:>> <snip> > >>>> Ken wrote: >>>> >>>> Â The question of why I could not use Ice-weasel for that >>>> purpose however remains. >>>> >>> it shows me Adobe Flash Player*Â -Â Version:Â 16.0.0.305** >>> Shockwave Flash 16.0 r0* >>> >>> So am guessing Ice-weasel is unable to play the stream due to >>> the flash version not being the very latest as in chrome. > >> That is one of the problems one runs in to with watching live >> video off of websites run by TV networks. Their sites are set up >> to be used by Windows users, almost as if everyone uses Windows >> (or has access to a machine that runs Windows). They often use, >> or require the latest version of some Windows created player >> software. The Linux versions often lag behind and you find you >> can't see their video. > > The same thought also occurred to me. My Iceweasel has flashplayer > 11.2.202.401; whereas the chrome version I downloaded has > 18.0.0.209. Adobe is no longer providing upgrades to flashplayer > for linux -- only security fixes to version 11.2.202. > > What we need now is an open source equivalent of the latest > flashplayer along with something like the default user agent, which > fools websites into believing the user has MSIE, to fool sites into > believing that the user has the latest version of Adobe > flashplayer. In the absence of an open source equivalent to > flashplayer the usefulness of Iceweasel, and probably Firefox as > well, is compromised. > >> I had that happen on a site showing Olympics coverage where I >> needed to use Moonlight(?) which was the Linux equivalent of the >> Windows specific plug-in needed to play the website video. The >> latest version of Moonlight wasn't able to play the video as you >> required the almost very latest version of Silverlight (IIRC). > > I had the same problem during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and > Whistler. I never did get Silverlight to work effectively, as > much I think caused by a slow internet connection as anything else. > At the time I was in Thailand. > > Regards, Ken > > > > --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlWr/5QACgkQuRKJsNLM5ephewCgmeh3gaICmSIwYQaFZPUWGinI A68AoJp8S1Jcp2bdbEuDyDmLWKvN5H9F =NskE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
