playing video from abc.com?

[mylar]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 23:46, 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.
> >
> 
> Well, I got it to work! This is the first time I've tried WINE, but I'm
> impressed. I downloaded the Windows version of Firefox, clicked on the
> installer in the wine file finder. It installed and ran great! Then, went
> to Adobe and installed (from within the Windows Firefox) the latest Flash
> player. We can now see the video on abc.com .
> 
> Thanks for the ideas!
> 
> Harold

Glad it worked out. Also  yeah, I have to try the Win vers.  of Firefox
and Opera under WINE. Currently I'm just  running Internet Exploiter
under WINE.

I also got it to work under the Linux version of Firefox by installing
the Windows Flash 9 plugin under a Demo version of Crossover ...
http://codeweavers.org Crossover is essentially WINE in a nice wrapper.
However, Crossover is not free but there is a free demo version that you
can play around with.

However,since you have it working fine directly under WINE  you're all
set.

mylar