On Wed 09 Sep 2015 at 16:02:57 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 09 September 2015 14:56:54 Brian wrote: > > I've just did a completely new installation of flashplugin-nonfree on a > > machine which had never seen it. Your eternally turning white circle is > > what I get. My feeling is that this has something to do with protected > > video on 4od. > > Bingo! Of course. That is exactly it. But since it sometimes works, I am > persevering in trying to get it working. Channel 4 say that it sometimes > works on Linux!! If I can find out *why* it sometimes works and sometimes > doesn't, I could be home and dry.
I am convinced the HAL packages are required for flash with 4od, if only because the only machine I do not have them on doesn't play programmes. > The second two are what almost everyone else I know gets. Jimmy's suggestion > and its working on my desktop was a revelation. I cannot see what flashplayer-mozilla brings to the party that is not contained in flashplugin-nonfree. Both have libflashplayer, which is the essential library needed, and both are up-to-date. After that, it is window dressing.