Re: Flash update
On Fri 01 Apr 2016 at 11:39:29 (+0100), Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. Using iplayer with flash involves downloading a file.
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. Wouldn't it be nice if the file could be downloaded, preferably
> > > > > using a program which is in a package in the Debian archives?
> > > > >
> > > > > 3. Such a package has been mentioned in this thread. It is extensively
> > > > > documented at the program's home page and in its manual.
> > > > >
> > > > > 4. The file being downloaded is a .flv. While it is being downloaded it
> > > > > is being stored on disk so it can be accessed and viewed. vlc is one
> > > > > player which can view .flv files.
>
>
> [snip]
>
> I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning
> that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer
> web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have
> to install a cookie to do this. It's still in beta but it works for me,
> at least with recent versions of Firefox and Chromium.
I don't think I've ever installed a cookie. How would I do this?
Is it one cookie to make the browser entirely HTML5, or is it a
different cookie for every site?
Would I know that a movie was being played with HTML5 as opposed to flash?
When flash streams a movie, a copy is downloaded somewhere on my
disk. One beneficial effect of this is that if I click the slider to
an earlier point in the movie, the player plays instantly from that
point, without a wait for buffering. Is that the same with HTML5,
or is it truly streaming (with no local copy on the disk)?
Is it easy to revert to flash if I don't like HTML5?
Cheers,
David.
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