From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K9Ek2-0000gu-1q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8575E02EF; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93481E0336 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K9Ek0-0001UE-4b for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:32 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-133.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:32 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-133.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Obligatory FF3 question. Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4858FC28.3050006@ercbroadband.org> <485908FF.9090600@cesmail.net> <48591683.7060705@ercbroadband.org> <48592D27.2080506@ercbroadband.org> <4859BEC5.5030309@pyrocufflink.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-133.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2ea52946-b2bc-4ed9-857c-f8933eac0b91 X-Archives-Hash: 8dceccaecde51ce699888622c6c23219 "Dustin C. Hatch" posted 4859BEC5.5030309@pyrocufflink.net, excerpted below, on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:04:53 -0500: > I literally just tried this and I cannot get a single flash video on > youtube to work. Not even their silly "see what's playing now" banners > load. All I get is a gray box and some garbage on the command line abou= t > ~ SWF8 not being supported. Advertisements like shoot the terrorist, wi= n > a laptop, however, seem to be working fine... I had been using swfdec and the swfdec-mozilla plugin, back with=20 iceweasel (FF2 unbranded). When it worked, it worked in youtube quite=20 reliably. However, apparently there was a specific build-order that=20 needed to be maintained, or it wouldn't work at all -- all I'd get would=20 be the Flash needed message. Some months ago, I got tired of that, and having read it was possible,=20 decided to see what I could do for downloading and playing the file using= =20 kaffeine (other xine/ffmpeg based players should work as well). I ended= =20 up using an extension in iceweasel (and now in minefield/FF3) to download= =20 and save the file as *.flv. There are several extensions that claim to=20 do it, but the one I'm using is DownloadHelper. Now, I don't need=20 scripting or plugins or anything else active on youtube. I can just=20 navigate to the page that would normally show the video, and use download= =20 helper from there. However, konqueror is my preferred primary browser, and I discovered a=20 package for it, youtube-servicemenu, available in portage. It adds a=20 context menu entry allowing you to download the video, with several sub- options to play it in this or that, save it as *.flv, or transcode it to=20 MP4 format and optionally play it. That seems to work a bit better for=20 me, so that's what I use most of the time, now. As mentioned, I then play the file using kaffeine. It's nice to be able=20 to play it full-screen, with all the native kaffeine features. =3D8^) After playing the file, I either delete it, or if it's good enough, move=20 it to my media archive and save it permanently! =3D8^) --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman --=20 gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list