Streaming video for Xandros

[winemaster]

I have Xandros and use Fire Fox as a brower for internet surfing. I go to video sharing sites and find that I need to dowload a flash player. Will my operating system and browers accept downloads of a flash player Quicktime, Real Player and maybe even Windows media player.
If not is there a solution to this or am I out of luck with what I have

[cdnLilWolf]

I have Xandros and use Fire Fox as a brower for internet surfing. I go to video sharing sites and find that I need to dowload a flash player. Will my operating system and browers accept downloads of a flash player Quicktime, Real Player and maybe even Windows media player.
If not is there a solution to this or am I out of luck with what I have

64bit flash support is unfortunately poor at the moment. You have to install a workaround. You didn't mention if yours is 32 or 64bit. For that matter, I don't know if they offer a choice.

Anyway, download the library from Adobe...
http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4

Extract libflashplayer.so (6.7MB) to the following directory...
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

or for 32bit

usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

All things being equal, Firefox should display flash movies et al.

I'm surprised Xandros doesn't support this out of the box being a "paid for" distro.

PS. I know there is support for RealMedia, I have not yet bothered to try and load Quicktime or WinMedia support though it is supposed to be there.

[winemaster]

Thanks for the info but I am totally ignorant of Linux. I have a choice tar.gz and rpm to download The computer I am using is 2 years old has a 2.4 Ghrtz processor.
I am told that this will take Vista. I am guessing it is 64 bit. If I guess wrong will I get a warning box to use 32 bit?

[cdnLilWolf]

Thanks for the info but I am totally ignorant of Linux. I have a choice tar.gz and rpm to download The computer I am using is 2 years old has a 2.4 Ghrtz processor.
I am told that this will take Vista. I am guessing it is 64 bit. If I guess wrong will I get a warning box to use 32 bit?

The 32/64 bit reference is to the OS, not the hardware. No matter, safer to use 32bit in this scenario anyway and it will work better as Adobe hasn't done a proper 64bit plugin for flash.

I took a quick look, but was unable to determine what package management systems they use so we will leave the .rpm file alone. Use the instructions for extracting the file as previously mentioned. "tar.gz" operates similar to "zip". I would guess that Xandros has built in support for it so right-clicking or double-clicking should present you with extraction options or just outright extract it.

[mike998]

I have Xandros and use Fire Fox as a brower for internet surfing. I go to video sharing sites and find that I need to dowload a flash player. Will my operating system and browers accept downloads of a flash player Quicktime, Real Player and maybe even Windows media player.
If not is there a solution to this or am I out of luck with what I have

I do not use Xandros, however using Ubuntu, I can use flash, and a media player (VLC is quite good) which will play all media formats. (Quicktime, Real, WMV etc).
Again, as I don't use Xandros, I am not sure what package management system it uses. If it uses YUM, or APT, you should be able to find these in that system. The flash is a little more complex. There are instructions here > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

[cdnLilWolf]

If it uses YUM, or APT, you should be able to find these in that system. The flash is a little more complex. There are instructions here > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

I beg to differ as adding Flash support is dead simple for 32bit systems (as previously mentioned).

[mike998]

I beg to differ as adding Flash support is dead simple for 32bit systems (as previously mentioned).
Whoops! Sorry, The OP didn't mention what kind of system s/he has, so I assumed that it was 32 bit!:boo:

[PSILOS3]

how can i move along directories on root in console mode ??
i'm a beginner,please help me !!!
or mail me : psilosgate3@hotmail.com ;D
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[cdnLilWolf]

how can i move along directories on root in console mode ??
i'm a beginner,please help me !!!
or mail me : psilosgate3@hotmail.com ;D
http://www.thecomputermechanics.com/forums/images/icons/icon4.gif

You should have started a new thread for this one. Using the CLI (Command Line Interface) you can change directories like so....

su - #this puts you in SuperUser mode

cd /etc/samba #this moves you to the listed directory

cd / #this moves you to the highest tier (root)

PS. Do you realize you posted to a thread that is already a year old?


cd .. #this drops you down one directory.

Pretty similar to Windows with the obvious difference of using a forward slash to demarcate directories. If you want to get to know BASH commands, point your browser here...... http://www.ss64.com/bash/

[Ken_ver_1_5]

you should have a package manager. all you need to do is search
flash within the manager. select it and apply the changes it should work.
thats has worked for most distros I have tested.