Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:28:30 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> 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 >> the old one. Once the old version is incompatible, there's no point in >> continuing to provide security updates for it. > > 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. >> Well, there's not point in worrying about it. We'll see what happens. > > I never liked the Flash Player concept: it simply breaks the way html > stands for. Anyway, which today standards in our hands, I do not see much > future for what Flash Player is currently designed for and provides. > Maybe it was "nice and cool" (sigh) 10 years ago but not know (and > needless to say it's buggy as hell). That didn't prevent it from becoming widely used. Almost nobody likes it, everyone uses it, and if you want to watch videos, you can't without. >>> I mean what problem you had with Adobe Flash Player. The rest of the >>> flash player implementations fail in a way or another. >> >> It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, depending on the website you're >> looking at. Some want you to download some software. It's just >> retarded. > > Uh? Can you please point to a site where Adobe Flash Player does not > work? This sort of problems are generated by wrong html coding for > embedding the Flash Player plugin, nothing Adobe Flash Player can solve. I don't have it installed anymore and I can't find one of these sites atm. It's awful, with gnash and vlc and the built-in player installed, there's no way to tell what the browser attempts to use to play something. Try [1] maybe, it opens a player (vlc maybe, it doesn't look like gnash) and says I don't have a divx codec installed. Try it a second time and it doesn't say that anymore. I'm sure if I could download the video I could play it just fine with mplayer or vlc. [1]: http://www.uploadc.com/ge161e2mxhfc/Thale.2012.SUBBED.BDRip.XViD-PLAYNOW.avi.htm >>>> So how do I make it so that seamonkey uses mplayer to play all videos? >>>> You seem to think there's no problem with that. >>> >>> Yes, because there's no problem with that unless you explicety mention >>> one. There are (or "there were", I hope they are still there!) plugins >>> to view flash videos from Mozilla browsers using mplayer -or another >>> video player- as backend. >> >> Ok, then how do I do that? > > I usually go to Google and search for it >:-) Well, I tried that years ago and just tried it again and still didn't find a solution. You seem to know how to do it since you say there's no problem with it, so maybe you can enlighten us by telling us how to. There's a gecko-mediaplayer package (which should be renamed to something like browser-plugin-gecko-mplayer to make it more likely that people will find it), and it doesn't list "application/x-shockwave-flash" as one of the things it plays in the package description. So I'm removing gnash as it's totally useless and the vlc plugin which doesn't seem to do anything and try the gecko one. It provides support for an overwhelming multitude of different types, and I still can't play the video on [1] or [2]. [2]: http://www.vidxden.com/twmisu023i89 -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pq5inic8....@yun.yagibdah.de
