On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:33:55 Siard wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +0000,Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > > To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install > > > youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl > > I just watched that link, and several stories from it, in iceweasel. And for a first, it remembered that I had OK'd using flash! It did not refuse to play any story I clicked on. No "this story is not available in your area" popups.
I am suitably amazed. > > Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, or watch with > > Google Chrome. I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know > > those do. > > Yep, here is a third solution: > install both chromium and pepperflashplugin-nonfree. > Then play www.bbc.com/news/10462520 in chromium. > > And there is a fourth solution: play the video with mpv. > $ mpv http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520 > mpv uses youtube-dl (by default) to find the video url. > > The same idea, using youtube-dl to provide mplayer (or any other > player) with the video url: > $ mplayer `youtube-dl -g http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520` > > BTW: the version of youtube-dl in jessie is not recent enough, so it > won't work. Instead of an 'apt-get install youtube-dl' in jessie you'd > better download and install it from https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ > Later, run an occasional 'youtube-dl -U' to keep it up to date. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
