List, good evening,
I have Iceweasel on a Wheezy laptop, and I wanted to use it for an
online educational course, which starts in a few days. The course
will employ video (among other teaching methods). Checking that
Iceweasel will play the video from the course website, Iceweasel loads
a player from Vzaar and then displays a black box announcing
"Your browser does not support HTML5/mp4 video playback. If possible,
please use a different browser to watch this video"
I'm a little bit cautious about installing other browsers and I feel
more secure with Iceweasel because of the additional security-oriented
plug-ins that are available (and we've used). But is there another
browser that will 'support HTML5/mp4'? I also tried the same site and
video on a Windows machine, with current Firefox and the current VLC
plug-in, and had the same result, so I'm wondering whether the message
is slightly misleading in suggesting that HTML5/mp4 is the problem.
The Iceweasel announcement goes on to add
"or install Flash Player."
and provides a link to the Adobe site. Possibly the site is using a
Flash video and that this is, perhaps, the primary issue. If so, I
guess I will have no open-source choice, and simply employ Adobe's
Flash plug-in. I've not done that previously because the player is
proprietary. The course introduction is here,
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/begin-programming-2014
That page contains the sample video I was testing. Using the
Iceweasel 'page source' I couldn't see Flash or anything with '.swf'
mentioned, though.
What do others on the list use to play similar video material on Wheezy?
Grateful for any comment,
regards, Ron
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