[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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