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

[jim]

Thanks, Maestro,
that's a nice looking list of tries,
which I will.


On 12/08/2016 01:02 AM, maestro wrote:
> [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)
>
>
> message ends.
> __________________
> *
> *
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:04 PM, jim <jim at well.com 
> <mailto: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/.
>     <https://abs.twimg.com/web-video-player/.>..
>
>
>
>
>     On 12/06/2016 10:03 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
>
>         Quoting Jim Stockford (jim at well.com <mailto: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/668e57ecb0cd92a9c456b7b10587c707cfdcfb4c/js/build.min.js
>             <https://abs.twimg.com/web-video-player/668e57ecb0cd92a9c456b7b10587c707cfdcfb4c/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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