Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Sorin Srbu
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox
working

 I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working.


I have made no attempt to watch longer videos with flash.  I do watch
3-5 minute music videos all the time, but I use mplayer for those (even
the FLV files I have downloaded from YouTube).

Is Shockwave the same thing as Flash? At least for Windows two separate
installers are needed.

AFAIK, Shockwave isn't available for anything but Windows and possibly Mac,
while a working Flash is available for most platforms.

Just to mention it, I've installed the 64b Adobe Flash preview release on CentOS
5.5 x64 and can now luxuriate in viewing Youtube from Linux. 8-]
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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
On 04/03/2011 08:06 PM Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
 On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:41, ken wrote:
 
 For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've
 done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked
 well.  So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on
 Firefox working.
 
 Are you perhaps confusing Shockwave and Flash? Most videos on the Web 
 are in Flash format. Simply install flash-plugin, available on 
 RPMForge, http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge

Yves,

What does your about:plugins page say?  (For explication, see the
about:plugins subthread.)  Or do you have some other diagnostic which
indicates these are not the same?

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Nikolaiczyk Martin
Hi,
maybe this is not really helpful for you.
But maybe you want try fedora linux for websurfing. 
Its also RHEL based.
I don't know why  you need a webbrowser on an enterprise linux.
For me is links or lynks enough on CentOS ;-)

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On 04/03/2011 08:06 PM Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
 On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:41, ken wrote:
 
 For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've 
 done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked 
 well.  So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on 
 Firefox working.
 
 Are you perhaps confusing Shockwave and Flash? Most videos on the Web 
 are in Flash format. Simply install flash-plugin, available on 
 RPMForge, http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge

Yves,

What does your about:plugins page say?  (For explication, see the 
about:plugins subthread.)  Or do you have some other diagnostic which indicates 
these are not the same?

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Monday 04 April 2011 08:09, ken wrote:

 What does your about:plugins page say?  (For explication, see the
 about:plugins subthread.)  Or do you have some other diagnostic which
 indicates these are not the same?

It does say Shockwave Flash. Now isn't that interesting, because Adobe 
itself says they're different things. In the download section at 
http://www.adobe.com/products/ , they're listed separately and, as 
Sorin pointed out, Shockwave isn't even available for Linux.

Anyway, did you download Flash for Linux at 
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer ?

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Sorin Srbu
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Of Yves Bellefeuille
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Anyway, did you download Flash for Linux at
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer ?

Who, me?

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
On 04/03/2011 09:24 PM Robert Heller wrote:
 At Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:41:35 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 
 wrote:
 
 For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've done
 the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well.  So
 I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working.

 Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes
 long.  However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%,
 sometimes even 100%!  If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%.
 (For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed
 to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)

 So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a
 video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity
 begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.

 What's everyone else's experience with this?  Does anyone have a setup
 where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in
 their editor alongside it at the same time?  If so, would you be open to
 explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this works
 so well?
 
 I am able to watch 1/2 hour TV shows with
 flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-release from Adobe's repo in Firefox
 (firefox-3.6.13-2.el5.centos), on my i686 IBM ThinkPad X31 laptop
 (which has 512Meg of memory and a 1700MHz, Pentium M processor), using
 CentOS 5.5.  The CPU does get hot (the fan fires up sometimes). Oh, I
 use a *very* lightweight X11 setup: I don't use GNome or KDE or any
 sort of 'Desktop Manager' system at all. Just FVWM in MWM mode.
 Virtually NO 'eye candy' at all.  My system boots to runlevel 3 and
 I fire up X11 from my login.
 
 I have made no attempt to watch longer videos with flash.  I do watch
 3-5 minute music videos all the time, but I use mplayer for those (even
 the FLV files I have downloaded from YouTube).

Robert, you bring up a good point about X.  But two things:  First, my
Dell i600m has the same CPU as your machine, except that mine is a
1500MHz, a tad slower, but I have 2G of RAM and so swap is almost never
even touched.  Still, since it's my CPU which is getting jammed up by
Flash|Shockwave, perhaps measures to ease the load on the CPU generally
would be a good strategy.

Secondly, still, as said previously, when Shockwave isn't playing a
video (but with gnome and everything else running as usual), my CPU's
load avg is trivial, giving me no reason to suspect gnome or anything
else I'm running is a hog worth trimming.  All indications point to
Shockwave itself as being the problem.

NB: While writing this, yum-updated just gave me
flash-plugin-10.2.153.1-0.1.el5.rf.i386.rpm.  So I've upgraded from
flash-plugin-10.2.153.1-release.src.rpm...  hopefully it's the fix I need.


Robert, thanks for the response.
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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
On 04/04/2011 08:37 AM Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
 On Monday 04 April 2011 08:09, ken wrote:
 
 What does your about:plugins page say?  (For explication, see the
 about:plugins subthread.)  Or do you have some other diagnostic which
 indicates these are not the same?
 
 It does say Shockwave Flash. Now isn't that interesting, because Adobe 
 itself says they're different things. In the download section at 
 http://www.adobe.com/products/ , they're listed separately and, as 
 Sorin pointed out, Shockwave isn't even available for Linux.

Perhaps the adobe webpage is a bit incomplete, or maybe they're talking
about the Windows plugins, I don't know.  I have to believe more what I
read on my system.


 
 Anyway, did you download Flash for Linux at 
 http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer ?

This kind of thing is not easy to remember.  Most of the time I assume
that, version numbers being the same, especially in the case of
commercial binaries, the packages will be the same regardless of where
they come from.



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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread ken
One other factor might be video hardware acceleration.  Of those who
have Shockwave working, are you also running VHA??

On 04/03/2011 06:41 PM ken wrote:
 For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've done
 the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well.  So
 I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working.
 
 Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes
 long.  However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%,
 sometimes even 100%!  If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%.
 (For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed
 to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)
 
 So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a
 video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity
 begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.
 
 What's everyone else's experience with this?  Does anyone have a setup
 where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in
 their editor alongside it at the same time?  If so, would you be open to
 explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this works
 so well?
 
 
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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote:
 At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
 wrote:

snip
 And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it plays flash
 videos just fine there.  [*I* have no use for nVidia's drive -- I don't
 do 3D modeling or video games, etc.]

Unfortunately, you *do* need nVidia's proprietary driver if you've got
dual monitors, like a lot of places I've worked in the last few years.

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:39:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

 
 Robert Heller wrote:
  At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
  wrote:
 
 snip
  And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it plays flash
  videos just fine there.  [*I* have no use for nVidia's drive -- I don't
  do 3D modeling or video games, etc.]
 
 Unfortunately, you *do* need nVidia's proprietary driver if you've got
 dual monitors, like a lot of places I've worked in the last few years.

I have just the one 17 VGA monitor.  Don't have room for either a
larger monitor or a second one.  And I am not sure what I would do with
a second monitor if I had one.

 
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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Rob Kampen

Robert Heller wrote:

At Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:39:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

  

Robert Heller wrote:


At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:

  

snip


And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it plays flash
videos just fine there.  [*I* have no use for nVidia's drive -- I don't
do 3D modeling or video games, etc.]
  

Unfortunately, you *do* need nVidia's proprietary driver if you've got
dual monitors, like a lot of places I've worked in the last few years.



I have just the one 17 VGA monitor.  Don't have room for either a
larger monitor or a second one.  And I am not sure what I would do with
a second monitor if I had one.
  

Wow - you haven't lived
All my work-stations have dual monitors. If you regularly use a browser 
and a word processor or spreadsheet you will benefit.
If you are trying to set up servers and compare between them, it is very 
useful too.

Makes copy paste etc so much simpler for my little brain to deal with. YMMV
  

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote:
 At Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:39:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list
centos@centos.org wrote:
 Robert Heller wrote:
  At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list
 centos@centos.org
  wrote:
 snip
  And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it plays flash
videos just fine there.  [*I* have no use for nVidia's drive -- I
don't do 3D modeling or video games, etc.]

 Unfortunately, you *do* need nVidia's proprietary driver if you've got
dual monitors, like a lot of places I've worked in the last few years.

 I have just the one 17 VGA monitor.  Don't have room for either a
larger monitor or a second one.  And I am not sure what I would do with
a second monitor if I had one.

Lessee, last place I worked, not sure about the one before that, and where
I work now, almost everyone has dual monitors. It's the in thing. (We
won't talk about my co-worker, who seems to remember fondly when he was in
the NOC, with three? four? monitors)

  mark only has two eyeballs



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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:22:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 
wrote:

 
 
 Robert Heller wrote:
  At Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:39:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 
  wrote:
 

  Robert Heller wrote:
  
  At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
  wrote:
 

  snip
  
  And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it plays flash
  videos just fine there.  [*I* have no use for nVidia's drive -- I don't
  do 3D modeling or video games, etc.]

  Unfortunately, you *do* need nVidia's proprietary driver if you've got
  dual monitors, like a lot of places I've worked in the last few years.
  
 
  I have just the one 17 VGA monitor.  Don't have room for either a
  larger monitor or a second one.  And I am not sure what I would do with
  a second monitor if I had one.

 Wow - you haven't lived
 All my work-stations have dual monitors. If you regularly use a browser 
 and a word processor or spreadsheet you will benefit.

I don't use word processors or spreadsheets.  No loss there.  I do use a
keyboard-based text editor in an xterm window.

 If you are trying to set up servers and compare between them, it is very 
 useful too.

I have no trouble with multiple xterm windows (to different machines). I
never maximize the xterm windows, so there is room for several on the
screen. And I do have multiple 'virtual' screens (a feature of FVWM).

 Makes copy paste etc so much simpler for my little brain to deal with. YMMV

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote:
 At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:22:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
 wrote:
snip
 I have no trouble with multiple xterm windows (to different machines). I
 never maximize the xterm windows, so there is room for several on the
 screen. And I do have multiple 'virtual' screens (a feature of FVWM).
snip
Yeah - folks seem to have forgotten the concept that screen real estate is
*valuable*, and gone to the Everybody Always Wants To Maximize My
Wonder!!!Full!!! Website!!

Turkeys. Who don't understand the concept of a window

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/4/2011 12:22 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:
 Wow - you haven't lived
 All my work-stations have dual monitors. If you regularly use a
 browser and a word processor or spreadsheet you will benefit.
 If you are trying to set up servers and compare between them, it is
 very useful too.
 Makes copy paste etc so much simpler for my little brain to deal with.
 YMMV 

I had dual monitors for a while.  Gave them up when I switched to a 22
widescreen.  Now I can have two documents open side-by-side on the same
monitor without feeling cramped.  Also without the hassles that come
with dual-monitor setups.

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:37:06 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

 
 Robert Heller wrote:
  At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:22:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
  wrote:
 snip
  I have no trouble with multiple xterm windows (to different machines). I
  never maximize the xterm windows, so there is room for several on the
  screen. And I do have multiple 'virtual' screens (a feature of FVWM).
 snip
 Yeah - folks seem to have forgotten the concept that screen real estate is
 *valuable*, and gone to the Everybody Always Wants To Maximize My
 Wonder!!!Full!!! Website!!
 
 Turkeys. Who don't understand the concept of a window

I only ever maximize FF, but only because my screen resolution is
(only) 1024x768 and websites these days need at least 1024x768.  I
didn't used to do that (I ran FF at 800x600), but 'modern' websites don't
look right (or in some cases don't even work) with such a 'small'
window size.

I *sometimes* view videos in full screen, but not as a default option
(except for the DVD player profile I use for mplayer).

 
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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread John R Pierce
Where two screens really rock is where you have a remote desktop sort of 
session to a 2nd computer.  one screen is one system, the other screen 
is the other.   also for watching videos while doing other stuff, 
maximize the video on one screen, noodle on another.


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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:41, ken wrote:

 For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've
 done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked
 well.  So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on
 Firefox working.

Are you perhaps confusing Shockwave and Flash? Most videos on the Web 
are in Flash format. Simply install flash-plugin, available on 
RPMForge, http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge

Regards,

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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:41:35 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 
wrote:

 
 For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've done
 the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well.  So
 I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working.
 
 Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes
 long.  However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%,
 sometimes even 100%!  If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%.
 (For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed
 to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)
 
 So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a
 video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity
 begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.
 
 What's everyone else's experience with this?  Does anyone have a setup
 where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in
 their editor alongside it at the same time?  If so, would you be open to
 explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this works
 so well?

I am able to watch 1/2 hour TV shows with
flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-release from Adobe's repo in Firefox
(firefox-3.6.13-2.el5.centos), on my i686 IBM ThinkPad X31 laptop
(which has 512Meg of memory and a 1700MHz, Pentium M processor), using
CentOS 5.5.  The CPU does get hot (the fan fires up sometimes). Oh, I
use a *very* lightweight X11 setup: I don't use GNome or KDE or any
sort of 'Desktop Manager' system at all. Just FVWM in MWM mode.
Virtually NO 'eye candy' at all.  My system boots to runlevel 3 and
I fire up X11 from my login.

I have made no attempt to watch longer videos with flash.  I do watch
3-5 minute music videos all the time, but I use mplayer for those (even
the FLV files I have downloaded from YouTube).

 
 
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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 3 Apr 2011 20:06:51 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

 
 On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:41, ken wrote:
 
  For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've
  done the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked
  well.  So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on
  Firefox working.
 
 Are you perhaps confusing Shockwave and Flash? Most videos on the Web 
 are in Flash format. Simply install flash-plugin, available on 
 RPMForge, http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge

Or from Adobe's repo.  Note: Adobe only has 32-bit flash player as their
stable release, although the 64-bit version available as 'beta test',
seems to be stable enough (works just fine on my 64-bit desktop).

 
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Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Rob Kampen

ken wrote:

For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've done
the try this! and try that! method and it hasn't worked well.  So
I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working.

Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes
long.  However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%,
sometimes even 100%!  If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%.
(For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed
to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)

So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a
video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity
begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.

What's everyone else's experience with this?  Does anyone have a setup
where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in
their editor alongside it at the same time?  If so, would you be open to
explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this works
so well?


Thanks.

  
Shockwave flash 10.1.r85 from adobe works okay on my CentOS 5.5 on 
kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5.centos.plus with firefox 3.6.13 x86_64 version

HTH
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