[sf-lug] Notes of the SF-LUG meeting on 2016-12-04 at Cafe Enchante..

[jim]

     Thank you.

     My experience has been to browse some Twitter
celebrity pages (Alex Wagner, Jennifer Granholm,
Kathleen Parker....
     Recently I've noticed problems with an error
message to the effect that "The media cannot be
played."
     I right-click and inspect to see a nested
bunch of div class .... Somewhere there's
<script 
src="https://abs.twimg.com/web-video-player/668e57ecb0cd92a9c456b7b10587c707cfdcfb4c/js/build.min.js"></script>

     My take is that Twitter is using some new
A-V medium for which my browser is not ready.
     My system is running
Ubuntu 12.04.5
Firefox 50.0
     I blindly Update every so often.
     I try to avoid Flash, though I'm suspicious
that it might have snuck in somehow.
     The Firefox > Tools > Add-ons list shows
Plugins includes
* OpenH264 Video Codec
* Shockwave Flash
* DivX Web Players
* iTunes Application Detector
* QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6
* VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 3.0.1)
* Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible Totem)





On 12/06/2016 07:10 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting aaronco36 (aaronco36 at linuxwaves.com):
>
>> IIRC, Jim S was soliciting some feedback from others on
>> resolving a difficulty getting a Twitter audio/video feed
>> to effectively play in his browser. I suggested that he
>> maybe try installing (or re-installing) the
>> flashplayer-plugin or flashplayer browser add-on. I think
>> there was some talk as well between Jim S and Ken about
>> possibly using the Chrome browser to play the Twitter
>> audio/video feed(s).
> The proprietary Google Chrome Web browser does indeed come with a Flash
> interpreter, called Pepper Flash.  The neat thing about _that_, however,
> is that a bunch of clever people have put together slick, bundled ways
> of inserting the Pepper Flash interpreter code into _Chromium_.
>
> Chromium is the genuinely open source, base Web browser of which Google
> Chrome is a proprietary offshoot.  Unlike Google Chrome, which may be
> lawfully distributed only by Google, Inc., Chromium is packaged and
> maintained by essentially all Linux distributions, so it really _ought_
> to be routinely present on all Linux desktop systems alongside Firefox.
>
> For any choice of Linux distro, Web-search...
>
>     'Pepper Flash' chromium  [yourdistro]
>
> ...to find out how to retrofit Pepper Flash into Chromium on your
> distro.
>
> PS:  And put out the word:  Friends don't let friends use Flash.  ;-> )
>
> PPS:  Before people stopped caring about Adobe's (formerly Macromedia's)
> deliberately underdocumented and performance/stability-robbing Flash
> language, several open source interpreters arose that implemented all of
> the openly documented Flash language calls and everything else that
> could be reverse-engineered:  Gnash, Lightspark, Shumway, and Swfdec.
> https://wiki.debian.org/Flash#Flash_Players_.28browser_plugins.29
>
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