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

[maestro]

[responding to jim s.]


hi teacher,
so you are running ubuntu 12.x lts on what if i
remember correctly is on a 64bit zareason box.

unfortunately, flash is STILL unavoidable in certain parts
of the web and html5 is not replacing as fast as first boasted
about much like A LOT of things.

*browser-wise:*
you may want to try bringing the vids down from
the web, watching them, and deleting them.

recommend disconnecting from network before
watching them.

you can add extensions in firefox;
twitter video downloader (i haven't used this just try it see if it helps)

video download helper (red,yellow,blue dot icon)

downthemall
downthemall anti-container

html5 everywhere


some vids will just play as 'temp' downloads and can be purged from your
cache (history) others will completely save to your drive. set firefox to
ask you every time
where you want it and you'll see how the different vids are handled.

is your twit set to auto-play vids?



*ubuntu-wise *
[code]
# aptitude search codecs

see if any codecs packages are not installed including one's beginning with
libav

if so install them.

[code]
# aptitude search flash

yeah i know, it SUCKS, but install the flashplayer-plugin see if it helps
if not
you can always trash it.


if this doesn't remedy things get back to me i have a page i found where
a guy condenses 12.04lts desktop settings after install (original install)


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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:04 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
>     Actually the long and short of it is that
> I don't know how to make sense of what I'm
> seeing. I present what I hope may help some
> readers recognize the problem, in this case
>
> <script src="https://abs.twimg.com/web-video-player/...
>
>
>
>
> On 12/06/2016 10:03 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
>
>> Quoting Jim Stockford (jim at well.com):
>>
>>      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/668e57ecb0cd92a9
>>> c456b7b10587c707cfdcfb4c/js/build.min.js"></script>
>>>
>> So, the long and short of it is that you don't _know_ this is a Flash
>> video clip; you just guess so, right?  And, actually, you don't even
>> know that it's lack of video software.  It could be problems processing
>> the Javascript wrapper, or something else entirely.
>>
>> Sounds a bit unfocussed as a problem-solving method.
>>
>> Anyway, personally, I don't get worked up every time someone puts up
>> something on the Web that for mysterious reasons balks at presenting on
>> my Web browser.  There is always some yoyo making the assumption that
>> everyone else has software $FOO, and I decline to go through hoops every
>> time another variant pops up somewhere -- without compelling reason.
>>
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