[GTALUG] PanAm games online steaming -how?

[Ken Heard]

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On 2015-07-19 12:36, Kevin Cozens wrote:

> On 15-07-19 11:46 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:>> <snip>

>>> Ken wrote:
>>> 
>>> Â 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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