[opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos
Could someone verify whether they are able to view some of the videos on www.foxnews.com I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out by javascript and I think they are doing something non-standard (which naturally obviously only IE understands) I have tried several distros, Firefox, Opera, Konqy etc... and nothing works. Sound comes through but no video. I am running Flash 9 but 7 doesn't work either. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bruce Marshall wrote:
Could someone verify whether they are able to view some of the videos on
www.foxnews.com
I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out by javascript and I think they are doing something non-standard (which naturally obviously only IE understands)
I have tried several distros, Firefox, Opera, Konqy etc... and nothing works. Sound comes through but no video.
I am running Flash 9 but 7 doesn't work either.
I hear the sound but see no videos on the fox site - OTOH videos from youtube, myspace, amazon, google, etc all work fine. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:36, J Sloan wrote:
I am running Flash 9 but 7 doesn't work either.
I hear the sound but see no videos on the fox site -
OTOH videos from youtube, myspace, amazon, google, etc all work fine.
Yeah... same here - - - all those other sites work. I was about to try to "ring their chimes" on this issue but I thought I would check with other users first. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 02:44:08 pm Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:36, J Sloan wrote:
I am running Flash 9 but 7 doesn't work either.
I hear the sound but see no videos on the fox site -
OTOH videos from youtube, myspace, amazon, google, etc all work fine.
Yeah... same here - - - all those other sites work.
I was about to try to "ring their chimes" on this issue but I thought I would check with other users first. Thanks.
Same here - sound but no video. Haven't checked on the Wintendo system yet. SUSE 10.1, Flash 9, FF 2.x -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:26, Kai Ponte wrote:
I was about to try to "ring their chimes" on this issue but I thought I would check with other users first. Thanks.
Same here - sound but no video. Haven't checked on the Wintendo system yet.
SUSE 10.1, Flash 9, FF 2.x
Thanks.... it works fine under FireFox and Windows XP so it is a puzzling issue. But I sent them an email about the problem. Will report on any answer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bruce Marshall wrote:
Could someone verify whether they are able to view some of the videos on
www.foxnews.com
I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out by javascript and I think they are doing something non-standard (which naturally obviously only IE understands)
I have tried several distros, Firefox, Opera, Konqy etc... and nothing works. Sound comes through but no video.
I am running Flash 9 but 7 doesn't work either.
Thanks.
It works fine on my Mac with Seamonkey or Safari as the browser. I have no idea what video player it is using, but it must be a Seamonkey plugin, because another window opens up and the video runs up in the corner. No other player seems to be opening (like RealPlayer or Quick Time as often happens with a web-based video) so I'm guessing it is flash. The source of the webpage that pops up is full of references to various versions of flash. But that doesn't tell you anything about SuSE 10.1 -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 17:29 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out by javascript and I think they are doing something non-standard (which naturally obviously only IE understands)
I have tried several distros, Firefox, Opera, Konqy etc... and nothing works. Sound comes through but no video.
I am running Flash 9 but 7 doesn't work either.
cer@nimrodel:/tmp/AAA> file 3EEC6128d01 3EEC6128d01: Macromedia Flash data, version 6 Xine says: ... gui_xine_open_and_play(): mrl: '3EEC6128d01', sub 'NONE', start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0. xine: found input plugin : file input plugin ebml: invalid master element xine: couldn't find demux for >3EEC6128d01< - ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- got XINE_ERROR_NO_DEMUX_PLUGIN. - ------------------ (END OF ERROR) ------------------- - ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- - - xine engine error - There is no demuxer plugin available to handle '3EEC6128d01'. Usually this means that the file format was not recognized. - ------------------ (END OF ERROR) ------------------- - ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- - - xine engine error - There is no demuxer plugin available to handle '3EEC6128d01'. Usually this means that the file format was not recognized. - ------------------ (END OF ERROR) ------------------- - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF5LxBtTMYHG2NR9URAtTGAJ92xnw5NkaafuDSveA2EVSe4u9tuQCePfR9 LDbzkfrh4gs5ss0oef1fCu0= =FZ+Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 17:29 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
I used to be able to view them using 10.1 but at some point in time I think they made a change and the videos no longer work. The videos are called out by javascript and I think they are doing something non-standard (which naturally obviously only IE understands)
I have tried several distros, Firefox, Opera, Konqy etc... and nothing works. Sound comes through but no video.
I am running Flash 9 but 7 doesn't work either.
cer@nimrodel:/tmp/AAA> file 3EEC6128d01 3EEC6128d01: Macromedia Flash data, version 6
Xine says: ... gui_xine_open_and_play(): mrl: '3EEC6128d01', sub 'NONE', start_pos 0, start_time 0, av_offset 0, spu_offset 0. xine: found input plugin : file input plugin ebml: invalid master element xine: couldn't find demux for >3EEC6128d01<
- ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- got XINE_ERROR_NO_DEMUX_PLUGIN. - ------------------ (END OF ERROR) -------------------
- ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- - - xine engine error -
There is no demuxer plugin available to handle '3EEC6128d01'. Usually this means that the file format was not recognized. - ------------------ (END OF ERROR) -------------------
- ---------------------- (ERROR) ---------------------- - - xine engine error -
There is no demuxer plugin available to handle '3EEC6128d01'. Usually this means that the file format was not recognized. - ------------------ (END OF ERROR) -------------------
So it looks like flash perhaps provides a windows codec for Flash 6 FLV which FNC use to embed the video. Weird. Why not use flash directly? <script language="VBScript" type="text/vbscript"> <!-- // Visual basic helper required to detect Flash Player ActiveX control version information Function VBGetSwfVer(i) on error resume next Dim swControl, swVersion swVersion = 0 set swControl = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." + CStr(i)) if (IsObject(swControl)) then swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version") end if VBGetSwfVer = swVersion End Function // --> </script> Mmmm... Naice! But there's also lots of JS, and it works under FF2 in windows. It appears in the dom thus: <object width="320" height="260" id="flashVid" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param value="flash_video.swf?ranNum=999018464&flaVol=100&showAd=true&videoAdType=fnc&ad1=http://media2.foxnews.com/promos/scottrade_driving_range_300.swf&ad1Link=http%3A//ad.doubleclick.net/click%253Bh%3Dv8/3507/3/0/%252a/u%253B68431019%253B2-0%253B1%253B13706620%253B780-320/240%253B19954996/19972890/1%253B%253B%257Esscs%253D%253fhttp%3A//www.scottrade.com/IRA%3Fcid%3D97&d_audit2=http://m1.2mdn.net/1243747/1x1.gif&d_audit3=http://m1.2mdn.net/1243747/1x1.gif&vidFile=http://media2.foxnews.com/022707/022707_report_america&speed=300" name="MOVIE"/><param value="high" name="QUALITY"/><param value="false" name="MENU"/><param value="transparent" name="wmode"/><param value="VwPauseVideoOnStart=false&lCastCompatible=" name="FlashVars"/><embed width="320" height="260" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=Shock..." flashvars="VwPauseVideoOnStart=false&lCastCompatible=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="flashVid" wmode="transparent" menu="false" quality="high" src="flash_video.swf?ranNum=999018464&flaVol=100&showAd=true&videoAdType=fnc&ad1=http://media2.foxnews.com/promos/scottrade_driving_range_300.swf&ad1Link=http%3A//ad.doubleclick.net/click%253Bh%3Dv8/3507/3/0/%252a/u%253B68431019%253B2-0%253B1%253B13706620%253B780-320/240%253B19954996/19972890/1%253B%253B%257Esscs%253D%253fhttp%3A//www.scottrade.com/IRA%3Fcid%3D97&d_audit2=http://m1.2mdn.net/1243747/1x1.gif&d_audit3=http://m1.2mdn.net/1243747/1x1.gif&vidFile=http://media2.foxnews.com/022707/022707_report_america&speed=300"/></object> I'd think the clsid:BLAH-BLAH-BLAH bit is MS Win specific. I'm not going through all of the JS just now, though this bit: function _hbxStrip(a){ a = a.split("|").join(""); a = a.split("&").join(""); a = a.split("'").join(""); a = a.split("#").join(""); a = a.split("$").join(""); a = a.split("%").join(""); a = a.split("^").join(""); a = a.split("*").join(""); a = a.split(":").join(""); a = a.split("!").join(""); a = a.split("<").join(""); a = a.split(">").join(""); a = a.split("~").join(""); a = a.split(";").join(""); a = a.split(" ").join("+"); return a; } could be written a = a.split(/[|&'#$%^:!<*>~;]/).join("").split(" ").join("+"); So it seems a bit poorly written, though to be fair (and balanced?) I suppose that may cause some kind problem with old browsers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-02-28 at 09:36 -0000, Russell Jones wrote:
cer@nimrodel:/tmp/AAA> file 3EEC6128d01 3EEC6128d01: Macromedia Flash data, version 6
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There is no demuxer plugin available to handle '3EEC6128d01'. Usually this means that the file format was not recognized.
So it looks like flash perhaps provides a windows codec for Flash 6 FLV which FNC use to embed the video. Weird. Why not use flash directly?
Dunno.
<script language="VBScript" type="text/vbscript"> <!-- // Visual basic helper required to detect Flash Player ActiveX control version information ... But there's also lots of JS, and it works under FF2 in windows. It appears in the dom thus:
Notice that I run my test on the flash file already downloaded; that's diferent from problems with java or the browser (ie, "3EEC6128d01" is the filename of the downloaded video, in my case). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF5XdktTMYHG2NR9URAsNyAKCF68qSuQu9TWof9mjQ34FQifc5tQCfaeA8 VtzOeSB85BIwCpTaq3cttjw= =MPrX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ah, I see. What happens if you rename it to .flv or .mpeg ? Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2007-02-28 at 09:36 -0000, Russell Jones wrote:
Notice that I run my test on the flash file already downloaded; that's diferent from problems with java or the browser (ie, "3EEC6128d01" is the filename of the downloaded video, in my case).
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-02-28 at 13:10 -0000, Russell Jones wrote:
Ah, I see. What happens if you rename it to .flv or .mpeg ?
It doesn't matter, xine is clever enough to ignore the name or extension. Notice that on a flash file that works, "file" says: "Macromedia Flash Video". On this one, it says "Macromedia Flash data, version 6", which is different. It might be informative to try the same with files from other sites that do work and compare. (You can get the file from the browser cache). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF5g+OtTMYHG2NR9URAuErAJ4mzQbm+v0uViI4Ob85eOhtAubbdACdFx0Z ajXkIw+YzYy++UeVwe5LxY0= =Ukah -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2007-02-28 at 13:10 -0000, Russell Jones wrote:
Ah, I see. What happens if you rename it to .flv or .mpeg ?
It doesn't matter, xine is clever enough to ignore the name or extension.
Notice that on a flash file that works, "file" says: "Macromedia Flash Video". On this one, it says "Macromedia Flash data, version 6", which is different. It might be informative to try the same with files from other sites that do work and compare.
(You can get the file from the browser cache) Fair enough. What if you force the encoder to treat it as mpeg2? I think you can do that with -vf options. I guess I'll have to try it myself :-)
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