On 10.06.15 11:53, Trent W. Buck wrote:

Erik Christiansen writes:

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[...] ABC clips bearing the simple two-circle Venn diagram symbol in the TLH corner show only a static video image, and even the audio feed is interrupted.

Nitpick: if you mean the ABC corporate logo, it's not a Venn diagram.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation#Lissajous_...

Nitpick: To be relevant, it would pay to to read and understand the OP. The "simple two-circle Venn diagram symbol in the TLH corner" is two overlapping circles, with the overlap filled in. If you had bothered to understand the words, you'd recognise the difference. (Perhaps look up "circle" on wikipedia?) The "simple two-circle Venn diagram symbol in the TLH corner" of the offending ABC clips look to me like a watermark from some alternative to Vimeo. I mentioned it because I thought that the video freeze might be due to their server behaviour - given that it does not otherwise occur. It seems odd that the cover image changes to the first frame of the clip, then that remains for the whole clip, with only an audio feed. Data point: It is over 40 years since I generated my own Lissajous figures in the electronics lab at uni. Adjusting frequency and phase to emulate the ABC logo was briefly enough to amuse a first-year student. Three decades in (mostly digital) telecommunications R&D have not been enough for me to forget the old analogue stuff. Data point: I'll conclude that you have not experienced the whole-clip video freeze that I described. Erik

On 10.06.15 20:12, Glenn McIntosh wrote:

On 09/06/15 18:11, Erik Christiansen wrote:

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ABC clips bearing the simple two-circle Venn diagram symbol in the TLH corner show only a static video image, and even the audio feed is interrupted.

I think you might be referring to video feeds like this one: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-10/the-drum-wednesday-june-10/6536688

Yup, that has the described symbol.

The feeds are flash video, and the two circle logo is just a control overlay (I think it is meant to represent a 'link' to other videos).

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Does anyone else have trouble with the ABC's new video clip dingus?

It appears to work with non-free flash player under Firefox (at least here), but I haven't tried with gnash.

Installing a useful flash player on this new debian 7.8.0 was a right PITA. I'll overcome my aversion. and have a look at what's there - maybe trying to improve it. Damn, I seem to have: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so So there's some other crud gumming the works.

The clip does default to high def, so if you think that the problem is connection speed, you can change the rate to 'low' by clicking on the HD icon at the lower right (this icon only comes up when you start the video playing).

Glenn, you are a scholar and a gentleman - of superlative erudition! That's prezactly the nature of the beast. That default to high def is perhaps reasonably recent. It only occurs on the marked clips, so we are at least warned. Many thanks for sharing your wisdom. I definitely preferred both the internet and linux several years back. It all seems to be going to the dogs. Erik -- The rats can clear two hundred square meters in just 20 minutes. It would take humans with metal detectors five days to cover the same area. - http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/african-herorats-...