Comment 45 for bug 585940

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 16:58 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 04:23 +0000, David Clayton wrote:
> > "The above site doesn't use Adobe Flash, but Microsoft Silverlight.
> > Probably you have Moonlight installed, and you think you are seeing a
> > Flash video, but you actually see a Silverlight video."
> >
> > That may be so, but the site prompts for Flash install on first run
> > inside a fresh install, and then prompts for Silverlight/Moonlight
> > plugin install after that.
> >
> > When all those steps are completed (auto-installing the 32-bit flash and
> > then manually selecting the X64 Moonlight plugin) viewing a video and
> > then right-clicking properties in the video window locks up Firefox.
> > Replace the 32-bit Flash with the 64-bit Flash and doing right-click
> > works correctly.
> >
> > The bottom line is that the 64-bit Flash plugin functions as it is
> > supposed to and the 32-bit one doesn't.
>
>
> I just checked the site http://www.afl.com.au with Ubuntu 10.04 x64,
> Ubuntu 9.10 x64, and Ubuntu 9.10 x86, having installed the latest Adobe
> Flash (version 10.1.53.64) and Moonlight (version 2.2), and the results
> are the following:
>
>
> Ubuntu 9.10 x64, Ubuntu 10.04 x64:
>
>
> The flash video does not play, and Firefox hangs on right-click.
>
>
> Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit:
>
> The flash video does not play, but right-click works.

Whether we can call it "flash video". Probably it is silverlight or
something.

> Bottom line, at the above site, flash videos don't play either in 32-bit
> or 64-bit Ubuntu. I think the above site is a mess regarding this.
>
>
> I consider youtube as a reliable site to check flash videos.

I also checked the site with Windows Vista 32-bit, using Firefox 3.5.9,
Google Chrome 5.0, and Internet Explorer 8.0

Flash/Silverlight/whatever-it-is video, doesn't work with them too.

Messy site.

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Ioannis Vranos

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