listreader wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:22:06 +0100 stakanov <stakanov@eclipso.eu> wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/html5 >> >> contains an html5 video. You have to be opted in to html5, >> it says if you are on the right hand side. Interestingly, it does not work for me (42.1). I get "We think this page has embedded the HTML5 player, as seen below:" and a picture appears in the box, but when clicking to play the video I get "Sorry, you need Flash to play this."
Why? If he has flashplayer installed on his system and set to "always ask befor starting the plugin" the automatic or manual selection of html5 in FF will not work. If he wishes in this conditions to play html5 he will have to go to "big mac menue" on the left side of the bar, choose supplemental components, - plugins - set flash to "never start" and reload the page. Now it should work as expected.
He (a.k.a. 'me') did indeed have flash set to 'always ask' so I tried this suggestion and disabled it ('never start'). I restarted firefox just in case that might matter. Still no joy.
Both with and without flash enabled the page chooses html5 by default (or so the page says), and displays the static picture of a monarch butterfly sitting on some mammal's nose or such, but clicking to play just still overlays the picture with 'Sorry, you need Flash to play this'.
More ideas please. Thanks.
FWIW, this is firefox 51.0.1 openSUSE version on 42.1.
Ralph
You could remove all the BBC cookies and restart. You could remove the flash plugin completely from firefox. (I think the animal is a koala bear). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org