On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:57:11AM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
as others have suggested, if you really need a recent flash for some videos, try google chrome. not chromium, chrome.
Oh. Wikipedia tells me that "Google Chrome is a freeware web browser". I had thought it was an OS ... or tablet platform, or somesuch. So, trying:
$ apt-cache search chrome
chromium is packaged and in debian. chrome isn't - you either need to download it direct from google or perhaps add a google repository to sources.list (i dunno if they have one). chrome is a pre-compiled non-free program with various proprietary extensions compiled in. chromium is the open source version of chrome. however, as Trent mentioned, the pepperflashplugin-nonfree package downloads google chrome, extracts the flash plugin from it, and sets it up in debian to work with chromium. so if you need a more recent flash plugin then you can either install chrome, or you can install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
chromium - Google's open source chromium web browser chromium-browser - Chromium browser - transitional dummy package ...
I'll try harder to find it later, but trying chromium with pepperflashplugin-nonfree first, I get "You need to install FlashPlayer to play this content." on the first BBC video clip that I click on.
So pepperflashplugin-nonfree isn't doing much good for chromium - it could manage to not play BBC clips without help.
sorry, i have no idea why that happens - i don't use either chrome or pepperflashplugin-nonfree AFAIK, it *should* work.
for BBC stuff, though, get_iplayer should be a better bet than flash shit. and you get to download the video to watch whenever you want in the player of your choice, without the hassles of streaming.
With time, I could probably figure out something like:
$ get_iplayer <url_pasted_from_clipboard> -c mplayer ...
discovering and twiddling options till it works. But it all seems an egregious step backwards from ubuntu 10.04, where it all just worked with nothing more than clickery-pokery in firefox.
i find that once you figure out how a tool like this works, it's best to write yourself a few wrapper scripts to simplify usage. e.g. i use python-iview occasionally (usually when i don't record something i'm interested in on ABC because i didn't find out about it until weeks after the first episode - a minor flaw with my habit of ad-skipping the station promos), and wrote simple wrapper scripts to download the iview index to a standard location, grep that for particular shows, display episode listings for particular shows, and extract the filename from the listings to download with 'iview-cli -d'. and another script to convert the .flv file downloaded to a .mp4 more compatible with the mythtv viewer (mostly to convert the audio to ac3) they're all blindingly obvious little scripts, from 1 - 10 lines each, and not only simplify the most common functions (search, list, download, transcode) they serve as a reminder of how to use iview-cli....all i have to do is look at the script and then i think "ah, that's how it works...i remember now".
I'll try the "-t experimental" bit after I've had my computer back for more than a few hours, all of them spent futzing.
as always, use apt-get's '-d' (download-only) option first. if the download set seems reasonable, run apt-get again without the '-d'. the '-V' (verbose) option is also useful in combination with '-d'...it shows full version number details of packages that are going to be installed or upgraded. e.g.: # apt-get -V -d -u install pepperflashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: ttf-xfree86-nonfree (4.2.1-4) hal () The following NEW packages will be installed: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.1) 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/10.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 75.8 kB of additional disk space will be used. Download complete and in download only mode craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>