Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in the menu.
I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something specific to firefox 3.
Anyone run across this?
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in the menu.
I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something specific to firefox 3.
Anyone run across this?
---- that seems fairly normal though you might want to install totem-xine package and then you can register xine as backend with 'totem-backend -b xine' command.
(my setup registers totem-web-browser-plugin as the player for the mime type video/flv)
Craig
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in the menu.
I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something specific to firefox 3.
Anyone run across this?
that seems fairly normal though you might want to install totem-xine package and then you can register xine as backend with 'totem-backend -b xine' command.
(my setup registers totem-web-browser-plugin as the player for the mime type video/flv)
This is normal behavior? It seems completely broken to me. I definitely shouldn't have to install xine to get flash to work, when i've already got the flash plugin installed (and it works in firefox2 without any issues).
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 17:53 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in the menu.
I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something specific to firefox 3.
Anyone run across this?
that seems fairly normal though you might want to install totem-xine package and then you can register xine as backend with 'totem-backend -b xine' command.
(my setup registers totem-web-browser-plugin as the player for the mime type video/flv)
This is normal behavior? It seems completely broken to me. I definitely shouldn't have to install xine to get flash to work, when i've already got the flash plugin installed (and it works in firefox2 without any issues).
---- what I meant by normal was the way it registers the applications to use for the various mime types but I'm trying to relate that things seemed to work better after I installed totem-xine and selected xine for the backend. I have seen others suggest removing the gecko-mediaplayer-plugin but I haven't bothered to remove it myself.
you might try launching firefox from command line to see if it spits any errors into the console.
Craig
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:23:05 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in the menu.
I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something specific to firefox 3.
Anyone run across this?
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I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays. That's the only way to watch cnn video for me. Strange, isn't it? Google video mostly works, occasionally though I run into clips where I see the same behavior (probably linked to google video from other sites).
I mentioned about this problem long ago and I got no useful hint, unfortunately.
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 02:10 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays. That's the only way to watch cnn video for me. Strange, isn't it? Google video mostly works, occasionally though I run into clips where I see the same behavior (probably linked to google video from other sites).
I mentioned about this problem long ago and I got no useful hint, unfortunately.
---- that really is a problem with flash so your best bet is to take it up with Adobe (though I gather there's a beta of Flash 10 for Linux either available or available soon).
Craig
Lonni J Friedman:
I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Amadeus W.M.:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays.
I get the same with youtube. Often I'll get Flash appear to load, then vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be needed to kick it back into working. Occasionally, the failure will happen part way into playing the file, with the same blank space effect and reloading required. Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash installed, but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to stupid webmasters doing stupid tests. And there are a few sites where the player just never works.
Perhaps related: If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the above manner).
I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:10 +0930, Tim wrote:
I get the same with youtube. Often I'll get Flash appear to load, then vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be needed to kick it back into working. Occasionally, the failure will happen part way into playing the file, with the same blank space effect and reloading required. Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash installed, but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to stupid webmasters doing stupid tests. And there are a few sites where the player just never works.
---- I find with youtube, I have to wait about 5 seconds after the page is fully loaded or the blank space problem happens.
Craig
Hi Lonni;
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in the menu.
I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something specific to firefox 3.
Anyone run across this?
Yes, I had the same problem. The fix is in the Fedora 9 release notes.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/
Section 10.5.1. Enabling Flash Plugin
If this works for you, pass it on. I got this advice originally from someone else on this list.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 02:10 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays. That's the only way to watch cnn video for me. Strange, isn't it? Google video mostly works, occasionally though I run into clips where I see the same behavior (probably linked to google video from other sites).
I mentioned about this problem long ago and I got no useful hint, unfortunately.
that really is a problem with flash so your best bet is to take it up with Adobe (though I gather there's a beta of Flash 10 for Linux either available or available soon).
As I mentioned, using the same exact plugin in firefox2, it works perfectly 100% of the time. I've also tried the beta of Flash10, and the same problem persists. I'm blaming firefox3 for this mess.
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:54 PM, William Case billlinux@rogers.com wrote:
Hi Lonni;
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in the menu.
I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something specific to firefox 3.
Anyone run across this?
Yes, I had the same problem. The fix is in the Fedora 9 release notes.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/
Section 10.5.1. Enabling Flash Plugin
If this works for you, pass it on. I got this advice originally from someone else on this list.
That's not it. It works fine on some websites, and not for others. It works perfectly 100% of the time everywhere in firefox2.
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:18 +0930, Tim wrote:
Lonni J Friedman:
I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Amadeus W.M.:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays.
I get the same with youtube. Often I'll get Flash appear to load, then vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be needed to kick it back into working. Occasionally, the failure will happen part way into playing the file, with the same blank space effect and reloading required. Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash installed, but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to stupid webmasters doing stupid tests. And there are a few sites where the player just never works.
Perhaps related: If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the above manner).
I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
-- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
How about these sites:
https://www.citicards.com/ http://www.dbfx.com
firefox -debug
shows
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: NPN_ReleaseObject() invoke: Message type invalid *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Message type invalid *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Write() invoke: Message type invalid *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Message type invalid
(firefox:27316): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_remove_internal: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection reset by peer *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad42ff0 is not valid! *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad42ff0 is not valid!
and it goes on and on.
Is the bug/configuration problem with nspluginwrapper rather than flash?
I ran mozilla-plugin-conf -v and I got a bunch of FAILs, many (if not all) of which have to do with totem or some totem libraries.
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 20:32 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 02:10 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays. That's the only way to watch cnn video for me. Strange, isn't it? Google video mostly works, occasionally though I run into clips where I see the same behavior (probably linked to google video from other sites).
I mentioned about this problem long ago and I got no useful hint, unfortunately.
that really is a problem with flash so your best bet is to take it up with Adobe (though I gather there's a beta of Flash 10 for Linux either available or available soon).
As I mentioned, using the same exact plugin in firefox2, it works perfectly 100% of the time. I've also tried the beta of Flash10, and the same problem persists. I'm blaming firefox3 for this mess.
---- This is twice now that you misunderstood what I have said...in this case, it was a reply to Amadeus and his issue with CNN which I have too and when I reboot, I will check it with Ubuntu/FF3/Flash but in any event, the above comment to which you replied was intended to commiserate with Amadeus.
Craig
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Amadeus W.M. amadeus84@verizon.net wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:18 +0930, Tim wrote:
Lonni J Friedman:
I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Amadeus W.M.:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays.
I get the same with youtube. Often I'll get Flash appear to load, then vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be needed to kick it back into working. Occasionally, the failure will happen part way into playing the file, with the same blank space effect and reloading required. Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash installed, but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to stupid webmasters doing stupid tests. And there are a few sites where the player just never works.
Perhaps related: If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the above manner).
I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
-- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
How about these sites:
I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like, but they seemed to work ok.
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Could you give some examples of the problem sites?
From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type
handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in the menu.
I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something specific to firefox 3.
Anyone run across this?
No, but I may not have visited the proper sites.
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:40:28 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Amadeus W.M. amadeus84@verizon.net wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:18 +0930, Tim wrote:
Lonni J Friedman:
I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Amadeus W.M.:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays.
I get the same with youtube. Often I'll get Flash appear to load, then vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be needed to kick it back into working. Occasionally, the failure will happen part way into playing the file, with the same blank space effect and reloading required. Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash installed, but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to stupid webmasters doing stupid tests. And there are a few sites where the player just never works.
Perhaps related: If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the above manner).
I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
-- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
How about these sites:
I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like, but they seemed to work ok.
The citicards site flashes a blue login/password rectangle in the upper left corner and some other things, then goes all blank.
The dbfx site has an embedded flash that is supposed to show currency prices in real time. That part I can't see, it's all blank. The rest of the page is ok.
Incidentally, I uninstalled mozplugger and nspluginwrapper and cnn at least seems to work better. Still having problems with these two sites though. Might be some java thing?
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Could you give some examples of the problem sites?
I get the same thing, sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:40:28 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Amadeus W.M. amadeus84@verizon.net wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:18 +0930, Tim wrote:
Lonni J Friedman:
I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Amadeus W.M.:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays.
I get the same with youtube. Often I'll get Flash appear to load, then vanish, leaving a blank space, and several page reloads will be needed to kick it back into working. Occasionally, the failure will happen part way into playing the file, with the same blank space effect and reloading required. Rarely I'll be told I don't have Flash installed, but seeing as that happens so rarely, I've put that down to stupid webmasters doing stupid tests. And there are a few sites where the player just never works.
Perhaps related: If on youtube I ope another page in a background tab while playing a video, the playing video will often abort (in the above manner).
I get the impression that the Flash player crashes really easily.
-- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
How about these sites:
I'm not sure what they're supposed to look like, but they seemed to work ok.
The citicards site flashes a blue login/password rectangle in the upper left corner and some other things, then goes all blank.
If you right click in the blank area you'd see that a "blank flash" is taking up the entire area.
The dbfx site has an embedded flash that is supposed to show currency prices in real time. That part I can't see, it's all blank. The rest of the page is ok.
I believe that live currency is not flash. Mine displays properly and when I right click there is no indication that it is flash. When I check the page source (not that I'm any good at that) it looks like a java applet to me.
Incidentally, I uninstalled mozplugger and nspluginwrapper and cnn at least seems to work better. Still having problems with these two sites though. Might be some java thing?
Mike Chambers wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Could you give some examples of the problem sites?
I get the same thing, sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.
Hummm... Always works for me. FWIW, I am running FF 3.0.1 on RHELv4. Will have to give it a go on F9, time permitting.
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 13:06 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Mike Chambers wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I get a nasty error that I need to install Flash.
Could you give some examples of the problem sites?
I get the same thing, sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.
Hummm... Always works for me. FWIW, I am running FF 3.0.1 on RHELv4. Will have to give it a go on F9, time permitting.
---- espn flash stuff has always worked for me too but I don't watch their video which is what I think he may be referring to.
Craig
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:20:13AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 02:10 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
I've had the same problem for some time and I kind of gave up on it. CNN is one notorious site that doesn't work for me. Invariably, any video either blanks out or tries to skip to the next one in the list. However, I noticed that if I reload the page several times, it eventually plays. That's the only way to watch cnn video for me. Strange, isn't it? Google video mostly works, occasionally though I run into clips where I see the same behavior (probably linked to google video from other sites).
I mentioned about this problem long ago and I got no useful hint, unfortunately.
that really is a problem with flash so your best bet is to take it up with Adobe (though I gather there's a beta of Flash 10 for Linux either available or available soon).
It's available now. But CNN videos won't play with it (or wouldn't the last time I tried). CNN just tells you that you have flash 10, that you need a flash version > 8 (I think it's 8) and do you want to download the flash plugin now? But it has worked great for me pretty much everywhere else. Because of CNN I still routinely use flash 9.x.