Re: unable to play some flash videos
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:21:42 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> I am unable to play flash videos on
> http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/video/episodes/ in iceweasel. The website
> says "requires Adobe flash player 9 or greater". However, I can play videos
> on youtube. The problem seems specific to only some websites.
>
> Is there any one who can play videos at
> http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/video/episodes/ ?
>
> I am using Debian Etch.
> $dpkg -l \*flash\* | grep ^ii
> ii flashplayer-mozilla 9.0.124.0-0.0 Macromedia Flash Player
> ii libflash-mozplugin 0.4.13-8 GPL Flash (SWF) Library -
> Mozilla-compatible
> ii libflash-swfplayer 0.4.13-8 GPL Flash (SWF) Library - stand-alone
> player
> ii libflash0c2 0.4.13-8 GPL Flash (SWF) Library - shared
> library
>
> $dpkg -l \*iceweasel\* | grep ^ii
> ii iceweasel 2.0.0.16-0etch1 lightweight web browser based on
> Mozilla
>
>
> Any ideas/suggestions (other than asking me to switch to windows :-)) to get
> around this?
Which user agent string is your browser sending? I use iceweasel 3.0.1-1
on Sid/amd64, and I get the same message unless I change the "Iceweasel"
part of the user agent string to "Firefox". Javascript has to be allowed
as well to get rid of the message.
I only get to see a Flash animation of a pulsating NBC peacock logo,
though, without any way to select and start an episode. I suspect that
this may be due to me connecting from outside of the US, or due to my
rather aggressive AdBlock filters blocking an advertisement that has to
played before the episode starts.
You also have to make sure that your iceweasel actually uses the Adobe
plugin and not one of the free (incomplete) ones. The most reliable way
to achieve this is, in my experience, to uninstall the free flash player
plugins.
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