On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Kevin Cozens <[email protected]> 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. > It's about two bits of functionality that are available in anything approaching current versions of Flash, that aren't available in the ancient, orphaned version for Linux. 1. DRM - right-click on a player showing a stream from one of these major sporting events (panam, olympics) and you'll see that the Flash player has loaded a plethora of DRM plugins. 2. Adaptive streaming - it'll automatically pick the highest quality stream your connection supports and automatically renegotiate with the server (no manual choosing of image quality like on Youtube). I wouldn't be surprised if support for newer and more efficient codecs were also available, but I've never bothered checking. Adobe abandoned Linux as a platform many years ago. Google still ports current versions of Flash to Linux, with all the bells and whistles, but that requires the use of the proprietary Google Chrome browser. > 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). > Yes that was lousy - I think that was Vancouver. The last Olympics used Flash, which worked just fine on Linux thanks to Google but still required proprietary software.
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