On Friday 23 Oct 2015 10:24:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 22 October 2015 21:38:50 Marc Joliet wrote: > > Personally, I actually uninstalled adobe-flash almost exactly two weeks > > and 2 hours ago :-) . I haven't really missed it, and youtube-dl (well, > > mpv's built-in youtube-dl support) helps with the few sites that still > > don't support HTML5 video. I practically never encounter any other type > > of flash content. (I consciously decided that I don't care about flash > > games, so they don't count.) > > Where I live, BBC Radio 3 is not receivable by direct broadcast, so I use > the iPlayer daily to listen to it on my desktop box. It won't work without > flash, so until the BBC change their ways I'm stuck with it. I did try > radiotray some time ago, but I like the text and pictures that come with > the iPlayer. > > (Sorry about all the confusing pronouns.)
There are shoutcasts and all sorts of HLS, HDS alternative methods to stream to your PC, not utilising flash. There is also get_iplayer with its recording capability, which I prefer ;-) http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html -- Regards, Mick
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