What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at film.com. Basically the same functionality that a Windoes user would have on the same websites. =======
Just a note to add to this thread... I booted to my Suse 9.1 drive today to do some work and had the bright idea to try Firefox on those site that wouldn't work with FF/Suse 10.2. Lo and behold, they worked perfectly. So, here it is, folks: the scorecard is Suse 9.1 - yes, Fedora Core 6 - yes, Suse 10.2 - no. I guess I will have to wait on Suse to get it together while I run some other distro that works. Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:12, Stevens wrote:
What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com It is really just burning me up that the *two* (2) count them (!) things that keep Opensuse from taking the world by storm is an open flash player and an open mp3 player. (astounding)
Its time to fix this folks... hamstrung by patent lawyers... ok, I'm inspired to tell a joke... Do ya know what the difference is between a patent lawyer and a channel cat? Give up? Well, one is a low life back-water scum sucking bottom dweller.... ... and the other one is a fish. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Stevens wrote:
What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos
I am assuming that "streaming videos" means flash in this case
included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at film.com. Basically the same functionality that a Windoes user would have on the same websites. =======
Just a note to add to this thread... I booted to my Suse 9.1 drive today to do some work and had the bright idea to try Firefox on those site that wouldn't work with FF/Suse 10.2. Lo and behold, they worked perfectly.
So, here it is, folks: the scorecard is Suse 9.1 - yes, Fedora Core 6 - yes, Suse 10.2 - no.
I am in the process of building a new box and am loading up Firefox/Sea Monkey and found that flash and quick time plug-ins were not available for Firefox/Sea Monkey for linux. Did you somehow get flash functioning? Thanks -- 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
On Thursday 15 March 2007 21:02, Tony Alfrey wrote:
I am in the process of building a new box and am loading up Firefox/Sea Monkey and found that flash and quick time plug-ins were not available for Firefox/Sea Monkey for linux. Did you somehow get flash functioning? Thanks
Yes, flash works ok here, as do some of the news feeds using mplayerplugin. Just not enough of them, unlike on my Suse 9.1 and FC-6 systems where ALL of them work. And yes, I downloaded every media plugin and rpm that I could find and something in 10.2 keeps it all from working. Yes, I linked .so files into the FF plugin directory, yes, and yes, and yes again to all the questions that have been thrown out on this list, all to no avail. This distro is broke in that regard. ( I downloaded flash 9 from Macromedia and installed the rpm, then linked the /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so to the firefox/plugins directory.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 3/16/07, Stevens
( I downloaded flash 9 from Macromedia and installed the rpm, then linked the /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so to the firefox/plugins directory.)
You're making it far too difficult for yourself, simply install the flash-plugin package in yast -> software management and flash will work in konqueror & firefox. This requires adding the non-oss repository if you didn't select it in installation (post registration) yast -> installation sources -> add -> specify url -> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/ If you want to manually install flash to have a newer version or whatever reason put the .so in /usr/lib/browser-plugins, all the browsers are configured to search here. _ Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 3/16/07, Benji Weber
You're making it far too difficult for yourself, simply install the flash-plugin package
I meant flash-player of course, also there's even a flash 9 package in the mozilla repository: http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2 _ Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Benji Weber wrote:
I meant flash-player of course, also there's even a flash 9 package in the mozilla repository: http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2
Unless you need x86_64. Still out of luck waiting for that version. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
Stevens wrote:
On Thursday 15 March 2007 21:02, Tony Alfrey wrote:
I am in the process of building a new box and am loading up Firefox/Sea Monkey and found that flash and quick time plug-ins were not available for Firefox/Sea Monkey for linux. Did you somehow get flash functioning? Thanks
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( I downloaded flash 9 from Macromedia and installed the rpm, then linked the /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so to the firefox/plugins directory.)
Thank you. I'll go look. -- 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
As promised, an update on my progress (or lack thereof) in getting Firefox/KDE/Linux to view various video clips in Yahoo's video section. I have 3 systems: A) P3/900MHz/256MB ram Gateway E-4400, B) Dell P3/900MHz/256MB ram C) P4/2.4GHz/512MB ram. A and C were running Suse 10.2, B is running Fedora Core 6. A and C had trouble viewing some video clips at Yahoo, C could view those ok. Now, the update: Sometime during the weekend C started working ok. Not sure what I did, but it worked. I blew away Suse 10.2 and put FC-6 on A and then started a marathon session that wasted most of my weekend. The last thing I saw was Firefox running mplayerplug-in try 3 times to play a stream... I got a burst of sound, then a retry, a burst, etc and after the third try it quit, just like it did while running Suse 10.2. ALSO, the driver for the nvidia MX-400 card that I installed would not compile with either the 2.6.18 original kernel source or the 2.6.20 upgrade. I had to get the legacy nvidia driver from livna.org, which crashes when presented with glx. (that is a separate problem, unrelated to the mplayerplugin issue). FC-6 comes with a generic nv driver which won't do polygons but doesn't crash with glx. So, the original problem is still there in that computer, using a different OS and different file installation locations. I am beginning to think that I have a hardware incompatibility issue instead of a software problem. Suse may be off the hook after all. Gateways of that era are notorious for being marginal, at best. Maybe I'll load XP on it and trade it for another box. Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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