Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> writes: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 05:30:29PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> writes: >> >> > Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. >> > Testing it now... >> >> Let me guess: It doesn't work. >> > I couldn't get it to work, but I may have gotten a lead. Several > web articles talk about using FlashVideoReplacer add-on for Firefox > (which looks like it no longer exists), or a Greasemonkey script (so far > I haven't found one that works) in conjunction with one of these media > plugins. Apparently the add-on or Greasemonkey script is required in > order to 1) tell the website that flash is installed, even though it may > not be, and 2) grab the flash file and display it with mplayer, vlc, or > something else. It also seems from my reading that the scripts that > handle this may be specific to particular websites, and may need > updating as those websites change the way they do things. > > I don't have time to look into it any more right now, but maybe that'll > help you in your quest.
Thank you! It doesn't seem to reasonably lead to anywhere. Maintaining a library of scripts that deal with particular websites which even continue to change how they present the videos to break such scripts isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them so difficult for people that they can't watch the videos in the first place. Maybe I'll just remove this gecko plugin; there's no point in having it installed when it doesn't work or when it doesn't do anything. Why are people creating plugins that don't work or don't do anything? -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcf9ijkw....@yun.yagibdah.de
