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 wrote.
>>
>> And when I went to display my article, guess what? The video wouldn't play.
>>
>> Here is the link to the article I wrote, that has the embedded video:
>>
>>
<
http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m...
>>
>> Here is the embedding URL I used:
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript"
>>
src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4106724&w=400&h=...
>> the latest news video at<a
>>
href="http://video.foxnews.com/">video.foxnews.com</a>...
>>
>> 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=null" before running Firefox.
I installed Firefox in my home directory (/home/john/firefox) and kept
the Fedora version.
Regards,
John