[sf-lug] Can't seem to watch this movie

[John Lowry]

I also run into this sometimes with Adobe's Flash. When this happens I
try gnash, which has actually worked for me more often with big flash sites.

Micah Lee wrote:
> I've noticed that several uber-proprietary Flash-based streaming video
> players basically suck and don't work with Firefox and Adobe Flash in
> Linux, but do in Windows or OS X. It seems like most TV networks (ABC,
> NBC, PBS, etc) decide to do an awful job at reinventing the wheel when
> it comes to playing streaming video in Flash. When all else fails, you
> could resort to a Windows virtual machine.
> 
> Hopefully everyone will soon start using the HTML5 <video> tag, and that
> should fix all of these problems.
> 
> Micah
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Kai Chang <kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com
> <mailto:kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     You might check to see if you have too many versions of flash
>     installed.  This could be a helpful command if you're using Adobe's
>     version:
> 
>     *sudo apt-get remove --/purge/ flashplugin-nonfree*
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Kai Chang
>     <kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com <mailto:kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         9.10 karmic 32-bit worked for me.  I've run this command since
>         installing:*
> 
>         *
>         *sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras*
> 
>         I also went here to download and install the newest flashplayer
>         from Adobe in .deb format:
> 
>         http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
> 
>         Hope this helps
> 
> 
>         On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Michael Paric
>         <mparic at compbizsolutions.com
>         <mailto:mparic at compbizsolutions.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>                 hi,
> 
>                 One of the schools this LUG is supporting with Linux is
>                 going to attempt to watch this movie tomorrow using
>                 Linux, but we have not been able to watch it thus far,
>                 and I'm not sure why.  Would someone please tell me if
>                 you are able to watch "Becoming Human" part one here:
> 
>                 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/beta/evolution/becoming-human-part-1.html
> 
>                 I was able to watch a preview, but the full movie does
>                 not play for some reason.  Not sure why.  I do have the
>                 most recent version of Flash running.  I am using
>                 Jaunty, and I also have a wide variety of codecs installed.
> 
>                 Thanks in advance.
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> 
>             Christian,
>             I was able to get it to play the full-length show on Karmic,
>             however it seems that Jaunty (and probably versions below
>             it) even with the official Adobe Flash player has problems
>             with their embedded ad tracking plug-in from
>             ad.doublclick.net <http://ad.doublclick.net> and the
>             JavaScript that displays it; it hangs trying to connect and
>             never finishes. Even tried it with Opera but same result.
>             Saw lots of posts but no real solutions other than upgrading
>             to Karmic. The previews do not have the ad tracking which is
>             why they play and the full-length show does not.
> 
>             Michael
> 
> 
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> 
>         -- 
>         Kai Chang  |  kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>     Kai Chang  |  kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com
>     <mailto:kai.salmon.chang at gmail.com>
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