Re: [opensuse] Foxnews Channel videos

[Russell Jones]

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.
    

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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=ShockwaveFlash"; 
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.


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