[mythtv-users] Flashplayer problems in www on myth

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> 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've had it working with hulu but it is so unoptimized that my P4 3ghz can't
even display it at a reasonable framerate.  Makes me long for the days of
XvMC HD playback :)

Kevin
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