Re: [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-08 Thread Michael E Granat
Cracking cheese madbiologist! Yes, I closed the playback window prematurely, as I did not have the time to see the whole movie again just then. (It is one of the many hundreds of ABC TV Australia shows I have stored thanks to Jeremy Visser's wonderful Python iView application https://jeremy.visser

Re: [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-07 Thread Michael E Granat
Thank you for your analyses and insights. I would suggest that to advance to a new OS version, firstly one should not break what already works well in the existing version, then provide some sort on intelligence to detect what more modern and advanced features are available on the receiving PC befo

Re: [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-05 Thread Michael E Granat
Sure, feel free to close the bug, but this demonstrates that more testing needs to be done on older PCs before releasing new versions. Not everyone can afford the latest and greatest and Ubuntu is supposed to be developed mindful of community needs and widespread usefulness. Cheers. On Wed, 2011-1

Re: [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-04 Thread Michael E Granat
Yes that is unfortunate. I never thought that when I "upgraded" to Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.x that I'd be stuck with a cumbersome (although good in some respects) new GUI (which would not activate on anything but my laptop and had to "revert to classic" on my desktop PCs) and my movies would no longer

Re: [Bug 774008] Re: ABC iView Flashplayer file blacking out on playback

2011-10-03 Thread Michael E Granat
Well, I just uninstalled / reinstalled flashplugin-installer using the software centre to be sure, then restarted the PC, logged in then ran media player by itself. Sound was fine as before but, also as before, an image is only available for a fraction of a second if I drag to move then drop the me