On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 09:56:16PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
Anything to reliably view video clips will do.
either iceweasel or chromium will display youtube videos, html5 and even flash if you have the flashplugin-nonfree installed. youtube's flash viewer works with the ancient linux flash. vimeo videos seems to work ok in those browsers too. on other sites, results will vary. as others have suggested, if you really need a recent flash for some videos, try google chrome. not chromium, chrome. 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.
On the emc-users ML there's occasionally links to some CNC machine-porn [...] (All on youtube)
if it's on youtube, it should be viewable in either iceweasel or chromium. depending on the video, you may need the non-free flash plugin installed. it's packaged for debian as flashplugin-nonfree (actually, that's an installer package that downloads the flash plugin, installs it, and sets it up properly in debian). install that. DON'T install just any random shit you download from the net (even from adobe's site) because you will probably mess up your system if you do. don't stray from the packaging system unless you know what you're doing and why.
Maybe I should down load the .iso for experimental, and install that from scratch, so I'm not mixing vintages to make a tawny debian.
experimental isn't an installable distro like sid or stable or testing. it's a bunch of packages which aren't ready to go into sid yet or which would require updating too many other packages or which has signifcantly differences or incompatibilities to previous versions. . i run sid normally, and when i installed iceweasel from experimental, it didn't pull in any extra non-iceweasel packages. YMMV if you're running wheezy or jessie. most likely, iceweasel in jessie or testing will work well enough for you. if not, try the version in experimental. if you try to install it and it wants to install more than about 3 or 4 packages, just abort - it's not worth the likely resulting mess. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>