playing video from abc.com?

[mylar]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 14:49, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 10:39, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >> I'm running FC5 and have the flash player working. When I try to play
> >> video from abc.com (such as program episodes), it seems to just sit
> >> there
> >> downloading from Adobe forever. Has anyone had any luck playing video
> >> from
> >> abc.com?
> >>
> >> THANKS!
> >>
> >> Harold
> >
> > The question I have  is why is it downloading from Adobe ? Shouldn't it
> > be downloading/playing from abc.com ??
> >
> > Could it be a possible version incompatibility ? What browser are you
> > playing it on ? Could it be looking for a flash player update at Adobe
> > and never finding it ?
> >
> > Reason I mention this is because a lot of websites have switched to
> > using Flash 8. Unfortunately there is no Flash 8 for Linux nor is there
> > going to be. The most recent Flash version for Linux is Flash 7.
> >
> > Adobe claims they are going to be releasing a Flash 9 for Linux sometime
> > in 2007. Still quite a long ways away.
> >
> > mylar
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info! I imagine it's trying to do some sort of update, but
> it just seems to sit there saying it's downloading from Adobe. I'll have
> to watch the network activity to see if it ever gets done. I've generally
> gone off and done other stuff, then, when I come back to that browser
> window, it says it's done, but I still have no video, just a nice white
> rectangle in the middle of the screen.
> 
> So, I was just wondering if anyone has gotten that to work. My wife wants
> to see something she missed this week on ABC. It'd be nice to not have to
> watch it on a clunky old Windoze machine (our newer machines all run
> Fedora).
> 
> Harold
> 

Just out of curiosity I decided to take a look at abc.com.  abc.com
seems to be another one of those major commercial media sites that
doesn't seem to know (or care) that such a thing as Linux exists. The
flash vids on their front page play under flash 7 but when i went to
their feature video I just get a blank white screen. According to their
FAQ they claim that Flash vers. 8 is required so that's likely  the
problem. I did manage to get it to work under Internet Exploiter with
Flash vers 8  running on my Linux desktop under WINE.

mylar