On Monday 24 March 2008 05:07:32 Kai Ponte wrote:

On Sunday 23 March 2008 03:49:51 pm Stan Goodman wrote:

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I am getting a log of error messages when I browse the 'Net, about pages that require Shockwave Flash. They do not tell me anyting about what kind of file feels unrequited (or about why web designers feel an urge to use this crap).

About:Plugins says the following:

***** File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r115

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes *****

So Flash is present. What is it that is missing?

Stan - you will get it all worked out!! :)

Here's what I have

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r115

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

What version of firefox/mozilla/opera/internet explorer/safari are you running?

A bit of poking about in FF Preferences shows me that, in the browser's list of defaults for filetypes, SWF appears, but not SPL, although the plugin claims to be able to run both. I don't see a way to add a filetype to this list. I have a similar problem with MPlayer, by the way, which is capable of running some WMP film clips from websites, but not all. A local newspaper site, for example links to such clips on external sites (which MPlayer handles beautifully), and also some of its own clips, which display only in what might be called a one-buttocked fashion. I wrote to the newspaper's webmaster asking to know what is the filetype of the latter, but have not been honored with a reply. I have WINE on my system, but I hesitate to try loading WMP into it, just as I don't invite other viruses in. But, for all I know, this too is only a matter of adding a filetype to the list of defaults. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Charles philip Chan wrote:

Stan Goodman writes:

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I am getting a log of error messages when I browse the 'Net, about pages that require Shockwave Flash. They do not tell me anyting about what kind of file feels unrequited (or about why web designers feel an urge to use this crap).

Please post a link to such a site.

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I don't see a way to add a filetype to this list.

For some strange reason this function does not exist in Firefox (it was there in mozilla). You will need to install the mime-edit extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4498

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I have a similar problem with MPlayer, by the way, which is capable of running some WMP film clips from websites, but not all.

Please post a link to a video.

The questions which Stan should be asked to answer are: which version of Firefox is he running and where did he install it from (from openSUSE or directly from mozilla.org); and are the symlinks in ~home/.mozilla/plugins pointing to the correct files? Once this is known, "Time and the little grey cells, will always [solve the problem]!" :-) . Ciao. -- If you really want to know, you won't ask me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 24 March 2008 12:19:00 Basil Chupin wrote:

Charles philip Chan wrote:

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Stan Goodman

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I am getting a log of error messages when I browse the 'Net, about pages that require Shockwave Flash. They do not tell me anyting about what kind of file feels unrequited (or about why web designers feel an urge to use this crap).

Please post a link to such a site.

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I don't see a way to add a filetype to this list.

For some strange reason this function does not exist in Firefox (it was there in mozilla). You will need to install the mime-edit extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4498

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I have a similar problem with MPlayer, by the way, which is capable of running some WMP film clips from websites, but not all.

Please post a link to a video.

The questions which Stan should be asked to answer are: which version of Firefox is he running and where did he install it from (from openSUSE or directly from mozilla.org); and are the symlinks in ~home/.mozilla/plugins pointing to the correct files?

Kai did ask me for that, and I apologized for not including it in my original query. The browser is Firefox v1.0.0.12, it came as an automatic update from openSuSE. I didn't realize that there are symbolic links from plugins to the browser, but I assume (naively?) that they must be correct if About:plugins sees them. How to check on this?

Once this is known, "Time and the little grey cells, will always [solve the problem]!" :-) .

I too am an aficionado of Hercule Poirot, but I do not slick my hair down, wax my moustache, or pur my beard in a snood overnight. Will that make a problem? (But I do drink Belgian "Stella Artois" beer by choice.)

Ciao.

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-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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On 3/24/2008 at 13:51, Kai Ponte wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008 03:02:58 am Charles philip Chan wrote:

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I have a similar problem with MPlayer, by the way, which is capable of running some WMP film clips from websites, but not all.

Please post a link to a video.

Here's an MWP video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnAPJQl1kqk

Doubtfull... all youtube content is in a flash container. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Kai Ponte wrote:

On Monday 24 March 2008 05:05:43 am Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On 3/24/2008 at 13:51, Kai Ponte wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008 03:02:58 am Charles philip Chan wrote: I have a similar problem with MPlayer, by the way, which is capable of running some WMP film clips from websites, but not all. Please post a link to a video. Here's an MWP video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnAPJQl1kqk Doubtfull... all youtube content is in a flash container.

But it is a Marty Willson-Piper (MWP) video! :P

haha Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 24 March 2008 01:51:47 am Kai Ponte wrote:

On Monday 24 March 2008 03:02:58 am Charles philip Chan wrote:

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I have a similar problem with MPlayer, by the way, which is capable of running some WMP film clips from websites, but not all.

Please post a link to a video.

Here's an MWP video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnAPJQl1kqk

-- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

clicking on the link does not work for me either. HOWEVER: i opened up youtube.com manually, played the first default video on the site, verified that my flash was working, then i manually typed the url above. it WORKED!!! d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 24 March 2008 06:00:01 am Stan Goodman wrote:

On Monday 24 March 2008 12:02:58 Charles philip Chan wrote:

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I am getting a log of error messages when I browse the 'Net, about pages that require Shockwave Flash. They do not tell me anyting about what kind of file feels unrequited (or about why web designers feel an urge to use this crap).

Please post a link to such a site.

I don't remember where this happened yesterday, and the History list is not helping. When it happens again, I'll fill this in.

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I don't see a way to add a filetype to this list.

For some strange reason this function does not exist in Firefox (it was there in mozilla). You will need to install the mime-edit extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4498

Thanks.

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I have a similar problem with MPlayer, by the way, which is capable of running some WMP film clips from websites, but not all.

Please post a link to a video.

I'll post two, because the reuslts do not seem consistent.

The newspaper site I mentioned is http://jpost.com; it is all in English. Find the place with a link to "JPost videos".

I get the same thing. I found this, too, with some quicktime videos on a university website. sometimes the format works and other times it doesn't. Typically, i've found it is the fault of the website author. They often put in unnecessary tags that make video not work. I also tried it with ies4linux and that didn't get me much farther. you did submit a trouble ticket? i just did. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 24 March 2008 09:00:01 am Stan Goodman wrote:

On Monday 24 March 2008 12:02:58 Charles philip Chan wrote:

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Stan Goodman

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I am getting a log of error messages when I browse the 'Net, about pages that require Shockwave Flash. They do not tell me anyting about what kind of file feels unrequited (or about why web designers feel an urge to use this crap).

Please post a link to such a site.

I don't remember where this happened yesterday, and the History list is not helping. When it happens again, I'll fill this in.

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I don't see a way to add a filetype to this list.

For some strange reason this function does not exist in Firefox (it was there in mozilla). You will need to install the mime-edit extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4498

Thanks.

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I have a similar problem with MPlayer, by the way, which is capable of running some WMP film clips from websites, but not all.

Please post a link to a video.

I'll post two, because the reuslts do not seem consistent.

The newspaper site I mentioned is http://jpost.com; it is all in English. Find the place with a link to "JPost videos". The screen that it brings up is a short herald about the US election process, and there is a long menu of clips to the right. Most of these are from TV-1 (they are labeled "iba". If you click on them MPlayer will swear to you that it is "connecting", but after a while it will recycle to the herald. At the moment, only one of the menu items is from the newspaper itself, and that behaves exactly like those from iba. (Sometimes they have clips from other external sources, and those are displayed properly.)

For comparison, you can view directly http://www.iba.org.il/media/?liveRadio=14, which is Radio-2. The two columns of icons at the left are audio programs you (presumably) could hear -- they don't start for me. If you click on the button marked "Foreign Languages", you can see more of these in many languages (Arabic, Tigrit, Russian, and even English). Above these is a screen for th recorded English-language news from the TV-1 network (the news reader is an immigrant from Oklahoma City, so you won't have trouble with his speech). This clip , unlike offerings from the same source but viewed through the newspaper, displayed beautifully by MPlayer.

Hello Stan Never did find the jpost video link you sent so I don't know about that. I did however go to the iba site and was able to open any and all of the videos and watch and play them. When first clicking on a selection a box came up and stated that I needed the microsoft plug in "click here" to download it, OR "click here to view the content directly in your video player" When clicked on, they would open with xine and they played beautifully. On some of the longer ones you had to wait for the buffering though. Bob S PS You even have the Simpson's in hebrew, huh? :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Charles philip Chan wrote:

Bob S <911@sanctum.com> writes:

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I did however go to the iba site and was able to open any and all of the videos and watch and play them.

Yes, the direct one from the iba site works fine. However, the one's From the jpost site is streamed from some outfit called cast-tv:

http://www.cast-tv.com/ntext.asp?psn=1201

which is the problem. One can see the intro/ad clip, but both mplayer and xine quits right after that.

That site crashes FireFox like a bad habit here! Fred -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 06:01:45 am Stan Goodman wrote:

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 04:41:16 Bob S wrote:

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Hello Stan

Never did find the jpost video link you sent so I don't know about that.

You didn't find the video link on that site? The easy one to find is on the front page, just under the large photograph near the top of the page. You have to click on "JPost videos". Or you could do CTRL-F to search for "video". That brings up some extraneous occurences in the little frames at the sides, but if you do "Next" a few times, you get to the right one.

.....<snip>.......... Found it after you told me where it was. Nope, doesn't work.

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PS  You even have the Simpson's in hebrew, huh?   :-)

I'm not sure (I don't have a TV) if they put in a Hebrew soundtrack or if there are subtitles. But I am pretty sure it would not be on any of the iba networks, but on cable and satellite providers.

Hebrew sound track with english background music.

But why would Hebrew audio be surprising? Homer is not the dullard that many think him to be; Bart can get away with an occasional "Ay, caramba", and Lisa can function in many languages.

Yep !!! :-) Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Stan Goodman writes:

I have some now: http://www.memritv.org

No problem here by clicking "Or click here to view the content directly in your Windows Media Player." and watching it in mplayer (I have wmv associated with mplayer).

I get simiiar behavor from http://amazon.co,

Please post a correct link to a video here. Charles