-----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:
 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
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