• Re: View Videos

    From jbclem4@charter.net@1:124/5013 to All on Thu Jan 31 19:16:21 2019
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    Subject: Re: View Videos
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    The funny thing is that when I run into this kind of problem, I go to
    Chrome v49 and the video almost always works. I'm using WinXP pro sp3.


    "Paul" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in message news:otj8iu$iok$1@dont-email.me...
    XPer wrote:
    Win XP Pro all updated.
    Firefox updated.

    Some on-line videos i can watch and some are scrambled and some say
    "No compatible source for this media"

    In some cases i can download and view in VLC but mostly I cannot
    download.

    What am i missing ?

    Details. Youtube ?

    How do I view them ?

    Carefully.

    There aren't a lot of media classifiers. There is
    GSpot tool, which tells you which CODECs a downloaded
    video used. There is some "Media Info" or the like,
    but in a quick test, I wasn't impressed. While GSpot
    is "old" now, it's still the best at what it does.

    But when it comes to streaming, the streaming video
    can be a format picked by the server (depends on bitrate
    measurement of your connection, or a preference you've
    set). You can also in some cases, visit a certain page
    and select HTML5 video in preference to Flash video.
    Not all browsers play the entire suite of HTML5 video
    types.

    Chrome is no longer provided for WinXP.

    Chrome-alikes (SRWare Iron, Opera) will inherit
    Chrome's hatred for WinXP, so you cannot escape that
    way. I think the Youtube web page that checks HTML5 features,
    it voted the Chrome set as complete (six tick marks, no
    X marks).

    http://www.youtube.com/html5

    Firefox isn't quite complete.

    If I knew of an alternative, I'd be using it.

    Normally VLC could play what you downloaded.
    FFMPEG ("ffplay") should be able to play quite
    a few. These would be using their own internal
    CODECs. You would only have a lot of DirectShow
    CODECs (ones GSPOT could use), if you downloaded
    some CODEC pack, and with the "bias" setting
    on each CODEC, you can create a mess for yourself
    (wrong CODEC gets selected) without too much trouble.

    Personally, I prefer private CODECs, like in VLC,
    because you can uninstall VLC if it pisses you off.

    And there's no such thing as easy-peasy video.
    If you're not struggling, you're not trying
    hard enough to break it.

    *******

    Netflix is video with digital rights management (DRM).
    The video window is "wrapped" with something that
    prevents unauthorized access. And as well, it should
    stop you from downloading, and only support streaming.

    Paul

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