From jwendel10 at comcast.net Fri Jun 5 20:22:38 2015 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1979882486752718566==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: John Wendel To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Fox News Channels videos won't play Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:28:56 -0700 Message-ID: <4BB404E8.4080303@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: 4BB35E1D.50704@gmail.com --===============1979882486752718566== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/31/2010 07:37 AM, Temlakos wrote: > On 03/31/2010 10:24 AM, john wendel wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 06:49 AM, Temlakos wrote: >> >>> I've come back to this issue of the Fox News Channel videos not wanting >>> to play, because perhaps I have some more information that might provide >>> a clue. >>> >>> Fox News Channel hosts a number of videos, and provides an embedding >>> link to each one. About an hour ago, I went to find one. When my Fedora >>> 12/Firefox 3.5.8 setup wouldn't play nice, I went to another machine >>> that had Windows XP on it. I was able to play the video there, and to >>> get the embedding script. I got it and pasted it into an article I wrot= e. >>> >>> And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't p= lay. >>> >>> Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video: >>> >>> >>> >>> Here is the embedding URL I used: >>> >>> >>> >>> And now: here is what that script embed.js contains: >>> >>> if(document.domain.indexOf('rightscoop')< 0) { document.write(''); } >>> >>> And that's it. >>> >>> >> [snip] >> >> Played fine here, Firefox 3.6.2, >> >> >>> Shockwave Flash >>> >>> File: libflashplayer.so >>> Version: >>> Shockwave Flash 10.1 d51 >>> >> Time to update your browser. >> >> Regards, >> >> John >> >> >> > > Then you recommend abandoning the Fedora build and going directly to > Mozilla for their latest RPM? > > And the same with Flash? I'm using "R45"; you have "D51." > > Temlakos Well, I see from other replies that the Fedora build will play these = videos properly, so, NO I would not recommend going directly to Mozilla = for their browser. I'm not sure where the Flash came from, probably = Adobe's website. I enjoy "breaking" my system, so I often run non-fedora releases of = stuff. The Mozilla version of Firefox didn't run correctly = out-of-the-box on my (F11) system. To make it work I had to set the = environment with "export CANBERRA_DRIVER=3Dnull" before running Firefox. I installed Firefox in my home directory (/home/john/firefox) and kept = the Fedora version. Regards, John --===============1979882486752718566==--