> From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: unable to play some flash videos > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:38:06AM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > Frankly, I have not had much luck with tv websites that stream their > > online content. Everything pretty much sucks. From Mythbusters episodes > > on Discovery's website to that Hulu website. I can't seem to get them to > > work right. > > Hulu works perfectly for me, with Firefox and either the free clone or > official Flash players. Two different Lenny systems. > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! > Stupid mistakes you can correct!
OK well before this gets too OT... When I go to Hulu and click any video, I get taken to a page and everything looks OK but when I click play, the video goes to white and nothing happens. I tried a number of shows with the same response. I was actually composing an email detailing what I had done to replicate it when I thought I should test on a second computer. Another Debian Lenny (fully updated) with Adobe flash plugin. Same thing. I thought I might really have an issue until it occurred to me that the machines I tested were dev boxes all running 64bit (because we are planning on rolling out new 64bit hardware when Lenny is released). So I booted up my virtual machine with an old, not-updated-in-months, Debian Etch 32bit system. I grabbed a newer version of Iceweasel and the flash plugins and tada! It worked! Well as best as can be expected from a VM (little choppy and sound was a mess). It looks like there have been quite a few improvements because I didn't have a 64bit system the last time I tried Hulu (some months ago and also there is a lot more content now too!). Anyone using 64bit Debian have Hulu working? Also...I changed the Iceweasel user agent string to Firefox and refreshed NBC's website. Same as those before me, I just got the peacock but nothing else. So in summary: NBC's website doesn't appear play well with Linux. Hulu looks like it might be an alternative to OP's problem ( http://www.hulu.com/search/Heroes?company=nbc&type=episode ). However, 64bit seems to have problems (for me at least). Have fun! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
