Flash Player

[Jdub]

Newbie to Linux.  How do I find where the Xiptech Flash Player is installed (ie path and filename)?  Wondering if it is possible to tell the Firefox Addon "MediaPlayerConnectivity" to play the flash videos from Youtube using the installed flash player - that is unless anyone knows another browser that can be installed that does play flash.

It is interesting to remember that Apple had to withdraw their iphone advert because it said you could surf all of the web when in reality it wouldn't play flash.  I wonder whether Elonex have really fallen down the same hole.

[Jdub]

I've found the program now "/bin/player" and indeed can get the Firefox addon to launch the player with the YouTube SWF file, however the player complains it is an invalid SWF file.  Anyone got any ideas?

[Leven2e]

yeah,but what makes you think that the bin/player has got to do anything with the flash?

[Garry]

yeah,but what makes you think that the bin/player has got to do anything with the flash?

If you click on it in MC it launches and is the Flash Player

I think that the problem with it is that youTube serves a scripted Flash 9 swf which serves the actual flv movie. The Flash on these machines is only Flash 6 and the scripting only works on the web page, you are simply downloading the server not the movie.

[Leven2e]

what is an "MC" ?

[SilverAnalyst]

what is an "MC" ?

Midnight commander, an explorer shell for linux.  (Well basically any way)

[tonyk]

what is an "MC" ?

Midnight commander, an explorer shell for linux.  (Well basically any way)

I haven't tried it on the Onet yet but there's a link to Midnight Commander here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jostht/epc/

[Unhban]

Yes it works fine through Xterm, see other threads....

[Leven2e]

Sorry for my ignorance,but I have just recently realized the Flash player can be used to play Flash games.
I have downloaded several games,they don't run too fast,but for fun it's ok 
If you wanna get them from websites start the choosen game online.In firefox go to Tools>Page Details (or something similar,I am not sure since my default language setting is not English...) ,then choose "Media".Locate the SWF file and "Save as".
In Bon Echo I am not sure where it is (yet),I did it on my other computer and have transfered the files onto the Elonex OneT.
I hope someone will have some nice time,since thousand of flash games are available online,you need just to find out which ones are the most suitable. 

[tonyk]

There must be a lot of educational games out there... as Elonex are pushing these as educational you would think they would be promoting this functionality!!

[Leven2e]

no mate,they are careless.Now on the elonex website appeared some more applications which are basically taken from the CNM,at least those softwares have been there for 2 weeks. here: http://www.elonex.co.uk/support/products/onetupdates.shtm

[tonyk]

no mate,they are careless.Now on the elonex website appeared some more applications which are basically taken from the CNM,at least those softwares have been there for 2 weeks. here: http://www.elonex.co.uk/support/products/onetupdates.shtm

The printer and the wifi ones could be the same ones as the CNM website - I'm guessing they all come from the same source though. I wonder if the two wifi updates and the lib updates are the same as the ones from the automatic update? There doesn't seem to be any info or readme.

[Leven2e]

The lib update file has the same name that is already installed on the laptop.
I installed the printer update and now won't start.Uninstalled and tried to reinstall the older one,but no success..

[tonyk]

The lib update file has the same name that is already installed on the laptop.
I installed the printer update and now won't start.Uninstalled and tried to reinstall the older one,but no success..

How annoying... I won't try the printer update then....  let us know if you fix things somehow ... or have to resort to the dreaded system restore.