[Sugar-devel] Flash and SWF in Browse build 13.2.0

[David Leeming]

Hi James,

I'll carefully reproduce the issue and provide complete information later today, rather than confuse things further!

David 

-----Original Message-----
From: quozl at laptop.org [mailto:quozl at laptop.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, 1 October 2013 12:15 p.m.
To: David Leeming
Cc: 'Sugar-dev Devel'
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Flash and SWF in Browse build 13.2.0

The information you provide doesn't seem to match my experience of
what is available and what works, so I'll probe the problem
description a little bit:

- when you said you upgraded to 13.2.0, what is it you upgraded from?
  I ask so that I can consider the differences.

- is there an example of this multimedia content consisting of .swf
  objects embedded in web pages?  I ask so that I can try to reproduce
  the problem quickly.

- are you using the same version of Browse as supplied with 13.2.0, or
  a version delivered by Software Update or customisation?  I ask so
  that I can try to reproduce the problem.

- is this the exact OLPC OS 13.2.0 or is it a build by someone else?
  I ask so that I can match version metadata.

- does the content play properly in Epiphany or Firefox?  I ask
  in order to rule out various software layers.

Regarding your opinion that a new release keeps us on our toes, I
agree, and it seems the community testing has been lacking, and
finding these problems at the point of deployment is an indicator of
that.  I wish people would have done this testing _before_ we ran out
of time.

devel@ is a more appropriate mailing list for problems that are
specific to OLPC OS and not to Browse, but let's see how far we get
with the assumption that it is Browse at fault.

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 11:49:48AM +1100, David Leeming wrote:
> XO-1.5 with release 13.2.0
> 
>  
> 
> We have been providing educational resources on the school servers including
> multimedia content from UNESCO, .swf objects embedded in web pages. Users
> access it with Browse. It is necessary to install the Flash plugin (latest rpm
> downloaded from Adobe).
> 
>  
> 
> However, when  upgrading to 13.2.0 the pages now display “missing plugin” in
> the placeholders for the swf objects.
> 
>  
> 
> Similarly, we have been providing the Khan Academy videos (flv), which were
> accessed using Browse to navigate to a folder on the school server and clicking
> on the flv file required, which caused Browse to download the video to the
> journal, from where it could be run in Jukebox (versions up to 26). Now instead
> a player is displayed in Browse but nothing happens. If I take the same files
> and put them on a USB stick and play them from that, it opens Jukebox and plays
> them perfectly well, so the Gstreamer codecs have installed OK.  
> 
>  
> 
> How can I get Browse to play the swf objects as it used to?
> 
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> 
> How can I get Browse to download rather than play in a player that doesn’t work
> (or how can I get that to work)?
> 
>  
> 
> Always keeps one on ones toes when a new release comes out. However it’s hugely
> time consuming.
> 
>  
> 
> David Leeming
> 
>  
> 

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