Re: Adobe Flash
On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 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,
That has not worked in >4 months here. On wheezy, I have installed every
new flashplugin-installer thats been released, and thats a bunch of
them, ditto for my ancient lappy with lubuntu 14.04 on it but there is
nothing for it to download. So quit advertising that it works and just
let flash die the horrible security hole ridden death it deserves.
> or watch with
> Google Chrome.
Can you stop it from calling home? Tcpdump and wireshark are quite
educational tools.
> 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!
So do I use chrome, pure and simply because I don't have to click thru 2
or 3 of iceweasels paranoid, are you sure requesters, which it promises
to remember you OK'd it, but it hasn't remembered yet.
> 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.
BBC refuses to show us 'Mericans about 1/2 the stories, they want us to
watch the reruns 8-12 hours later on Public TV, which our Public TV
agencies bought. Maybe they don't grok that the only reason I am awake
at 4AM when BBC is available, is that I am working on g-code, & that's
because I woke up needing to relieve myself so I may as well trace some
code to put me back to sleep. I can make more progress faster when the
rest of the house is sound asleep & not distracting me.
Yeah, I'm a grouch. I bought nearly a kilobucks worth of Mahogany, to
make 3 more of those chests I think Lisi has seen a pix of, 120 bd-ft
should have been plenty. Advertised as S4S, one side of every board is
torn out in huge scallops by dull planer blades that aren't even
straight. Its so abused I'm using filler by the 6 oz tube and I'll
still toss 40 feet of it in the fire. Oil it up for kitchen cutting
boards maybe?
> 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
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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