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On Friday 23 Oct 2015 10:24:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Thursday 22 October 2015 21:38:50 Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> > Personally, I actually uninstalled adobe-flash almost exactly two weeks |
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> > and 2 hours ago :-) . I haven't really missed it, and youtube-dl (well, |
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> > mpv's built-in youtube-dl support) helps with the few sites that still |
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> > don't support HTML5 video. I practically never encounter any other type |
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> > of flash content. (I consciously decided that I don't care about flash |
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> > games, so they don't count.) |
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> Where I live, BBC Radio 3 is not receivable by direct broadcast, so I use |
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> the iPlayer daily to listen to it on my desktop box. It won't work without |
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> flash, so until the BBC change their ways I'm stuck with it. I did try |
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> radiotray some time ago, but I like the text and pictures that come with |
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> the iPlayer. |
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> (Sorry about all the confusing pronouns.) |
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There are shoutcasts and all sorts of HLS, HDS alternative methods to stream |
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to your PC, not utilising flash. There is also get_iplayer with its recording |
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capability, which I prefer ;-) |
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http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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