[GTALUG] PanAm games online steaming -how?

[Andrej Marjan]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin at ve3syb.ca> 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.
>

It's about two bits of functionality that are available in anything
approaching current versions of Flash, that aren't available in the
ancient, orphaned version for Linux.

1. DRM - right-click on a player showing a stream from one of these major
sporting events (panam, olympics) and you'll see that the Flash player has
loaded a plethora of DRM plugins.

2. Adaptive streaming - it'll automatically pick the highest quality stream
your connection supports and automatically renegotiate with the server (no
manual choosing of image quality like on Youtube). I wouldn't be surprised
if support for newer and more efficient codecs were also available, but
I've never bothered checking.

Adobe abandoned Linux as a platform many years ago. Google still ports
current versions of Flash to Linux, with all the bells and whistles, but
that requires the use of the proprietary Google Chrome browser.


> 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).
>

Yes that was lousy - I think that was Vancouver. The last Olympics used
Flash, which worked just fine on Linux thanks to Google but still required
proprietary software.
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