I figured I'd roll two posts into one because they're somewhat related.
1: Is there a way to watch Flash videos without using proprietary clients?
I'm interested in a subscription to the English subtitled Baduk TV from Go
Game Guru, but it appears as if the videos are using Flash. Here's
Video streaming varies. For the example you gave, none of the usual options
worked for me.
For the record, the solutions I always try are (in order):
* UnPlug (Abrowser/Firefox extension).
* Finding the appropriate video URL and pasting it into VLC (media player
found in Trisquel's repo).
Regarding 1:
The video works fine even without any JavaScript by changing the Mozilla
browser's user agent to an Android browser via the add-on User Agent
Switcher (I used the user agent Galaxy S II - Android 4.0.3 - Mobile Safari
534.30) and using the add-on UnPlug (UnPlug also provides a
You can find some options to replace the surveillance program called Flash!
(XD) http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash
There's gnash too, but sometimes (almost always XD) doesn't reproduce the
video!
