[GTALUG] PanAm games online steaming -how?

Bob Jonkman bjonkman at sobac.com
Sun Jul 19 19:50:46 UTC 2015


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Ken Heard wrote:
> What we need now is an open source equivalent of the latest 
> flashplayer

No, what we need is to educate the mass media outlets et. al. that
free software exists that does not require them to spend $$$ on
licenses for proprietary software that has been limiting their
advertising reach to yet more eyeballs.

- --Bob, who remains ever optimistic and naive.



On 19/07/15 03:38 PM, Ken Heard wrote:
> 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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