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foobar

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#15900 14-Sep-2007 05:29
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Hello!

Has anyone managed to successfully watch videos from Yahoo/XTRA's news site, with Ubuntu or any other Linux for that matter? I use Ubuntu 7.04 with Firefox. I normally don't have trouble watching videos. For example, I can see them on CNN's web site, even though I have to use UserAgent switcher, and set it to 'Netscape on Vista' for some reason. I can also watch videos on the BBC's web site.

But for some reason, on the Yahoo/XTRA site I cannot make it work. The best I can get is a white screen where the video would have been. The progress bar on the bottom advances, but no picture and no sound.

Any ideas?





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barf
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  #86670 14-Sep-2007 11:06

try using the mplayer firefox plugin! impossible to play almost anything that isn't flash without it.

but even with that no joy here. Ubuntu 7.04 and Firefox, latest Flash plugin, etc. to top that off the mms stream URL is embedded in some stupid flash object so I can't rip it out of the code very easily. did i mention i hate flash?

they clearly diddn't do enough (or any cross-platform at all) browser compatibility testing.






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