Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-10-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/28/2012 1:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > >> Try: > >> > >> $clive -f best "http://vimeo.com/24972836"; > > > > Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/28/2012 1:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Try: $clive -f best "http://vimeo.com/24972836"; Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it take hours? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufCS2ad0eE Regards, Ralf On

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:24:12 +0200 Siard wrote: > Celejar: > > lee: > > > Celejar: > > > > If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the > > > > content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)? > > > > > > You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have >

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Siard
Celejar: > lee: > > Celejar: > > > If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the > > > content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)? > > > > You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have > > an URL to try it with. > > I'm pretty sure wget doesn't hand

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Try: > > $clive -f best "http://vimeo.com/24972836"; Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it take hours? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufCS2ad0eE Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/25/2012 4:42 PM, lee wrote: Celejar writes: http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508&type=269&page=248 Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up this message: "You must install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin. Click here to download and install t

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-26 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:42:22 +0200 lee wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508&type=269&page=248 > > > > Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up > > this message: > > > > "You must install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508&type=269&page=248 > > Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up > this message: > > "You must install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin. > > Click here to download and install the plugin. > > Or click

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:11:22 +0200 lee wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:28 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > >> Celejar writes: > >> > >> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 > >> > lee wrote: > >> > > >> >> Celejar writes: > > > > ... > > > >> >> like someone else would a

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:52:10 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 02:22:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > > > > > I've used it many times to watch / download media that I > > > > couldn't access any other way. > > > > > > How did

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: >>> Then install Adobe Flash Player and problem solved. >> >> It doesn't solve the problem. > > It will solve the problem of displaying Flash Player videos in the > browser, what makes you think it won't? That isn't the problem. I removed the flashplayer library from ado

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:28 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Celejar writes: >> >> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 >> > lee wrote: >> > >> >> Celejar writes: > > ... > >> >> like someone else would and it doesn't work, so I have no reason to >> >> believe that it would work fo

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 02:22:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 > lee wrote: > > > > > I've used it many times to watch / download media that I > > > couldn't access any other way. > > > > How did you do that? > The above was referencing gecko-mediaplayer and mozil

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:28 +0200 lee wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > >> Celejar writes: ... > >> like someone else would and it doesn't work, so I have no reason to > >> believe that it would work for someone else. And there was some

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Curt
On 2012-09-20, lee wrote: >> >> Hanlon's razor applies here as well. > > Huh? > I wish Gillette's razor could be applied to some of these threads. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:16:03 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: >>> Like I said, nothing to worry about. Do you have a plan B? >> >> Yes, of course; the same approach that I've used for DMCA-friendly >> services: avoiding those that require from me a component which is not >> available for my

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Celejar writes: >> > >> > Perhaps because they don't want people grabbing the videos and watching >> > them without browsing to their site, or reposting them elsewhere? >> >> People have to go to their website to get it eit

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:20:20 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > >>> Sadly, we can't be sure on what the future will provide, so worrying >>> know is useless and wasteful. The only we can do is having a "Plan B", >>> that's all. >> >> Like I said, nothing to worry about

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites > >> which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them > >

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:20:20 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: Should that happens, you will have to choose: looking for a proper replacement of the plugin or simply avoid sites that make use of an unsupported feature in your system. >>> >>> And that isn't a good situation. >>

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Celejar writes: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 > lee wrote: > > ... > >> isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites >> which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them >> so difficult for people that they can't watch the videos in the fi

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: >> >> Adobe says on their website: "Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported >> Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to provide security >> updates."[1] >> >> What's that supposed to mean? Will we soon have

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 20 sep 12, 03:11:59, lee wrote: >> >> Thank you! It doesn't seem to reasonably lead to anywhere. Maintaining >> a library of scripts that deal with particular websites which even >> continue to change how they present the videos to break such scripts >> isn't so

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-23 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:27:35 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >>> >>> Should that happens, you will have to choose: looking for a proper >>> replacement of the plugin or simply avoid sites that make use of an >>> unsupported feature in your system. >> >> And that isn't

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 lee wrote: ... > isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites > which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them > so difficult for people that they can't watch the videos in the first > place. Perhaps because

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: > > Frank McCormick writes: > > > On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium > > >> are able to play arbitrary

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee: > Frank McCormick writes: > > On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium > >> are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > >> > > Chrome has built-in

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:27:35 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: >>> There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for >>> other OSs. They could add features in the new version that make it >>> impossible to play videos which are compatible with the new version >>> with th

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 sep 12, 03:11:59, lee wrote: > > Thank you! It doesn't seem to reasonably lead to anywhere. Maintaining > a library of scripts that deal with particular websites which even > continue to change how they present the videos to break such scripts > isn't something I would want to do, and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-20 Thread lee
Rob Owens writes: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 05:30:29PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Rob Owens writes: >> >> > Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. >> > Testing it now... >> >> Let me guess: It doesn't work. >> > I couldn't get it to work, but I may have gotten a lead.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 05:30:29PM +0200, lee wrote: > Rob Owens writes: > > > Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. > > Testing it now... > > Let me guess: It doesn't work. > I couldn't get it to work, but I may have gotten a lead. Several web articles talk abou

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:28:30 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > > (...) > >> There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for >> other OSs. They could add features in the new version that make it >> impossible to play videos which are compatible w

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread lee
Rob Owens writes: > Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. > Testing it now... Let me guess: It doesn't work. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:28:30 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >> OTOH, html5 is now at the corner, my hope is that Flash Player for the >> web dies in a very near future... > > There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for > other OSs. They could add feature

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > Thx, I looked at that and there weren't any. Meanwhile, I tried gnash > > and found that it doesn't work at all. Lightspark depends on > > pulseaudio, and I don't want to install that. Are there any > > alternatives --- preferab

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 20:15 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Fiddling around by semi-random clicking on stuff and reloading the > page six or eight times sometimes works. In other words, patience is > what's required. Deleting the cache, closing and opening the browser and last but not least rebooting

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Go Linux
--- On Tue, 9/18/12, Mark Allums wrote: > From: Mark Allums > Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 8:15 PM > > > Some computers don't resume all the hardware properly.  > If

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/18/2012 7:53 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Sat, 9/15/12, lee wrote: From: lee Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 11:08 PM Adobe says on their website: "Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Go Linux
--- On Sat, 9/15/12, lee wrote: > From: lee > Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 11:08 PM > > > Adobe says on their website: "Flash Player 11.2 is the last > supported >

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:42:57 +0200, lee wrote: > >> There might be the problem that, in a while, you can't play videos with >> it anymore since Adobe says there aren't going to be any further >> releases. I don't know what their plans are, perhaps it just becomes >> obsolete

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:42:57 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: >> >> interactive applications. Anyway, what trouble are you having with >> Adobe Flash Player? > > Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings like > you

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 23:42 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: > > > > what trouble are you having with Adobe Flash Player? > > Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings like > you do in mplayer. It probably doesn't

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Rob Owens writes: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: >> > >> There used to be mozilla-mplayer, but it looks like it's not in the >> Squeeze repos. There is mozilla-plugin-vlc. Maybe give that a shot. >> > Hmm, I just tried it and many of the videos on youtube and vim

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote: > > Camaleón writes: > > > > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: > > > > > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are > > >> able to play a

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: > > > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are > >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > >> libflashplayer.so

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: > > interactive applications. Anyway, what trouble are you having with Adobe > Flash Player? Besides that I hate it, if you use it, you don't have key bindings like you do in mplayer. It probably doesn't use VDPAU, either. Ther

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: >> > flashgot >> >> I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. > > apt-get show clive Sounds good, I'll try it, thank you :) -- Debian

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: > > flashgot > > I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. apt-get show clive -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are bei

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:09:43 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >>> What might they be using to play these videos? Where is configured >>> what they use? >> >> (...) >> >> "about:plugins" will tell what other flash plugins are installed and >> available for your browser. > > Thx, I l

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: > >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have >> libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play >> such vide

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 14:37 +0200, lee wrote: > flashgot I installed something called DownloadHelper, but never used it. $ pacman -Qi firefox Name : firefox Version: 15.0.1-1 Architecture : x86_64 $ pacman -Qi flashplugin Name : flashplugin Version: 11.2.202.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: > trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are > able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play > such videos. I have removed it for

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread lee
Bob Proulx writes: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > Chrome is the nonfree version. It is nonfree because it includes > Flash and probably other nonfree things. Chromium is the free version > and does not have Flash nor any other nonfree thing embedded. That is > the specific difference between Ch

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/16/2012 2:22 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and seamonkey supports Video-Tag and WebM (whatever that is) and doesn't support h.264. They are saying chromium supports all of it. How do I get h.264 support in seamo

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: How do I get h.264 support in seamonkey? It will probably happen eventually, but h.264 has patents, so it may not happen soon. You can always add it yourself through a plugin. But you may have to *write* the plugin yourself, and it may not be legal in some

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: Peter Viskup writes: there is something like HTML5 already out. Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Frank McCormick writes: > On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are >> able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > > Chrome has built-in Flash - it's called PepperFlash so it does not > depend on ex

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Peter Viskup writes: > there is something like HTML5 already out. > Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for > HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and seamonkey supports Video-Tag and

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > lee wrote: > >trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are > >able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > >libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play > >such videos. I have removed it for testing

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 01:15 +0200, Peter Viskup wrote: > there is something like HTML5 already out. > Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for > HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. AFAIK HTML5 draft doesn't replace flash completely. It

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Peter Viskup
On 09/16/2012 12:30 AM, lee wrote: Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and b

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote: Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and bot

What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-15 Thread lee
Hi, trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play such videos. I have removed it for testing and both browsers still play videos. In t