[mythtv-users] Flashplayer problems in www on myth
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Jun 26 21:50:02 UTC 2008
On 06/26/2008 05:32 PM, allen edwards wrote:
> I cannot get flash to play in "Information Center" -> "WWW" web pages
> within Myth. I can get the web page I want but when I click on what
> would start the flash video in Firefox, I get a message about needing to
> install the latest version of flashplayer. If I click on that, the
> screen fills up with what I would guess is the downloaded binary (not
> helpful).
>
> I have found postings that say I need to turn on video playback by doing
> this "Settings" -> "Mythweb" -> "Video Playback" After looking all over
> the myth interface and finding nothing, I found such a menu thread on
> the mythweb interface (accessed from a remote computer) so I don't think
> that is the same www interface I am interested in.
>
If you're talking about MythBrowser, which is basically KDE's
browser--Konq?--I think you just need to set up Flash for the KDE
browser. (Myth does not use Firefox.)
> I cannot get full screen with flash on Firefox. I think this is an
> Adobe bug. On my prototype, I back loaded Flash player 9 but it had a
> new problem. Before I go through all that again just to remember why it
> didn't work, anyone know the story here?
I've never been able to get Flash on Linux to allow full-screen. Even
on Windows machines, many times it won't work for me--especially true on
the "view the latest episodes" players from the broadcast networks.
I just chalk it up to the fact that Flash su
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