Re: Adobe Flash
On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> for
> user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe
> the debian-user list.)
>
> To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install youtube-dl:
> $ apt-get install youtube-dl
Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, or watch with Google
Chrome. I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those do. I watch
that news-site all the time, several times a day most days, and browse over
the whole site; sometimes just to see if there has been a new newsflash on an
important story. Think of the disk-space needed if I were to download
everything every time!
It runs fine without a problem, without all the hoops. The BBC generally
makes any downloading a PITA, though I haven't tried this method. And you
don't need a media player. Just a browser. What a rigmarole just to watch
the news!!!
Alex, do you download every website before looking at it? :-/
> I suggest you to install vlc as well if you don't have a preferred
> media player yet:
> $ apt-get install vlc
Install vlc by all means. But just use a browser to watch the BBC news.
Lisi
>
> Now, you can download the video by:
> $ youtube-dl http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520
>
> You can read the documentation of youtube-dl by going to
> <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl>.
>
> The following is the real command I use (with additional flags if needed):
> $ youtube-dl --prefer-free-formats -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"
> <URL-OF-THE-VIDEO>
>
> Feel free to reply if this doesn't work for you.
I'd be interested to know if it does!!
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> On 18/11/2015, Barry <bewhite@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > I hope you can send this to the appropriate person for me.
> > It appears that Adobe will not be producing updayes to Linux flash
> > player in the future.
> > I have found that videos on the BBC and ABC us a format that cannot be
> > played.
> > I get a notice that I need to update Adobe flashplayer.
> > I find I can use Windows 7 to watch them, but I have to dig out an old
> > laptop.
> >
> > Is there a new or existing program to do the job or a new one in the
> > works ?
> >
> > Thanks for all the developers efforts.
> >
> > Barry White
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