[lug] April's Meeting is On-Line

[Will]

It was nothing I did. It all has to do with how YouTube, WSL and NYT
display video.  I believe YouTube now uses HTML5 where it can the others
probably use Flash.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Paul E Condon <pecondon at mesanetworks.net>wrote:

> On 20120414_063417, Will wrote:
> > http://youtu.be/3VVPkX6wRYU
>
> This is amazing. For several weeks (months?) I have been unable to watch
> video on my computer, which is two or three yr old HP hardware running
> Debian Squeeze (no Windows, I scrubbed that when I got it 2nd hand). I
> don't have much desire to watch videos, so I haven't really work on the
> problem --- but I decided to click on the link in this email and up came
> the video of a BLUG meeting. It happened without tinkering or reading
> man pages or editing config files or anything. Then I checked my other
> sources of videos, the NYT and WSJ and both were still not working. What
> do you people know that WSJ and NYT don't know?
>
> Seeing this demonstrates that my computer can display videos. But what
> are NYT&WSJ requiring beyond default software? I have subscriptions to
> both and do keep the computer logged in to there sites. Neither has ever
> told me I needed something special. Is there some Debian package that
> is needed by some sites, but not all? What might it be?
>
> One special consideration is that I don't have a full Gnome installation.
> I do have Gnome Terminal and whatever it pulls in by dependencies. My
> desktop manager is Xfce4, which is available in Squeeze. If there are
> any xfce4 tweeks needed, how can your video feed work without the tweeks?
> A very happy, but puzzled old guy here.
>
> Suggestions?
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon at mesanetworks.net
>
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