Great talent, and yes, watching now on Firefox ... On 07/05/2013 01:23 PM, Bob van der Poel wrote: > Sort of off topic ... but is anyone getting TED videos to play on > Linux with Firefox? > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Leonardo Palomares <leoave(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> Link: >> http://on.ted.com/BanjoBoys >> >> Not all kids are full time into computer games and facebook. >> >> This video will give you new hope on the next generation. >> >> I know David Phillips will enjoy this.... >> >> Leo

On 07/05/2013 02:38 PM, david wrote: Plays fine here on Fedora 14 (64 bit) and Firefox 22.0.

On 07/05/2013 03:38 PM, david wrote: i915, but I don't remember why. It's on an HP laptop, and it works fine, so that's all that really matters to me.

After thinking about this and seeing a few messages about it working on FF ... I did a few tests. 1. On my wife's computer running xfce it works just fine. So, it's not FF 2. Logged in as "Guest" on my box. This is Ubuntu 12.04. As guest it works just fine. So, it's not FF and it's not the flash plug in either since I'd be using the same version. 3. Back to my home and I tried some things with FF. Ran in "safe mode" and then tried using a new profile. Neither works. So, darned if I have any more ideas ... and here I thought it was something silly TED was doing :) On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > Doesn't play here on Debian Sid Linux with Firefox 22. Displays message: > " It appears that we are unable to play this video in your browser for one > of the following reasons: > > you have JavaScript disabled > your device does not support HTML5 video > you have an old version of the Adobe Flash Player. Download the latest > Flash player to view this video." > > IIRC, HMTL5 video support is very dependent on video drivers: one great > disadvantage compared to good old proprietary Flash. > > Well, downloaded the MP4 and tried to play it, and it won't play. Rather, it > plays, but there's no sound and no video. Deleted it and tried again, and > now mplayer plays it. > > They're pretty damn good. > > On 07/05/2013 07:33 AM, David Santamauro wrote: > >> Great talent, and yes, watching now on Firefox ... >> >> On 07/05/2013 01:23 PM, Bob van der Poel wrote: >>> >>> Sort of off topic ... but is anyone getting TED videos to play on >>> Linux with Firefox? >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Leonardo Palomares <leoave(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Link: >>>> http://on.ted.com/BanjoBoys >>>> >>>> Not all kids are full time into computer games and facebook. >>>> >>>> This video will give you new hope on the next generation. >>>> >>>> I know David Phillips will enjoy this.... >>>> >>>> Leo

Don't think it is the video driver. On my computer I'm running the nvidia binary. Logging in as Guest I can watch; using my account I can't. Same computer. Same video. Odd thing about this is that there is no directory for the Guest account ... not sure if that would make a difference. Oh, just created a new account on my computer. It has a small firefox directory, etc. And TED works. But, try as I might it will not work from my home directory. I do have a .adobe directory in my home. Just deleted that and restarted FF. Nope, no ted video. Mind you, just about any other video stuff I watch works fine. All very strange! So, it's not xfce. It's not the video driver. Not Firefox. And, not a profile issue (I created a new profile in my ff and got the same error).

On 6/07/13 4:38 AM, david wrote: It shouldn't be dependent on drivers, but not all browsers that support HTML5 video (or audio, for that matter) will play all HTML5 videos. Different browsers support different codecs, and while Chrome, Safari, and IE support proprietary codecs like H.264 and AAC, Firefox supports only free codecs, like Theora, VP8 (aka WebM) and Vorbis. So, while Firefox mostly works with HTML5 video on Youtube (since Google supports WebM there for many videos), most other sites only offer H.264 video via HTML5, which won't work with Firefox. Most of those sites will fall back to using Flash to play such videos on Firefox if it's available, though. Thanks Leigh