Re: Orange Update
How is the Flash Player, was it upgraded to 10?? Adobe site won't support update as you know. You can't even go on youtube and play anything in their normal web page version. It tells you that you have to upgrade the flash player. Youtube only works via the mobile site version, which I don't like, as you don't have the facility to re-arrange the search to 'most recent', and even on those lists plenty don't play for me. Has anyone gone on to the normal youtube and had any joy playing it from their pages as opposed to the HTC viewer? Since the update?
The flash player was not updated, but I have no issues playing videos in either the mobile or desktop version of the site. However, I seldom use either because the quality is not as good as that in the YouTube application.
Regards,
Dave
That's really strange, it's never let me view them from the desktop version, Always says I need to upgrade my flash........ which of course it won't let me do.
Have you applied the update yet? As far as I'm aware there were no updates to Flash (it certainly isn't Flash 10 yet), but it is possible some changes were made elsewhere.
Regards,
Dave
Thank you Dave, No I've not done it yet, wouldn't actually know where to start as of yet.
Even in the HTC youtube app there are many vids it won't play.
Can you give an example that I can find, so I can test it out on my Hero. Thus far, I've not found anything that doesn't play but then again I'm hardly a prolific YouTuber!
Cheers,
Dave
anything from the desk top version of youtube always says, you must upgrade your flash player, links to Adobe, then the usual... too many server redirects message that I always get no matter which site diverted me there
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I can't seem to find anything on this here or over at PPC.
i've went to multiple websites on my Hero and the flash ads play fine but where the video would be, there's the flash logo with an exclamation point. Tapping it says "This content cannot be displayed on this device." Has anyone had this problem or do I have a faulty Hero?
Flash on Hero isn't great. It is currently based on Flash Lite and therefore lots of Flash content, especially newer content, doesn't work.
Regards,
Dave
I may be in the minority here. But on my laptop I use Xfinity, quite often. When I pull up http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/ on my tab and then attempt to watch an HD video it tells me I need Microsoft Silverlight.
I have tried all browsers available to no avail. Any information would be helpful.
There's no silverlight for android.
The Mono team (the guys who make silverlight work on linux) supposedly had a Honeycomb beta of Moonlight running back in April, but I haven't heard a word since then.
The big problem has and will always be that Microsoft refuses to give any pointers about how it works, so it's all reverse engineering and hacky at that.
Milhouse82 said:
I may be in the minority here. But on my laptop I use Xfinity, quite often. When I pull up http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/ on my tab and then attempt to watch an HD video it tells me I need Microsoft Silverlight.
I have tried all browsers available to no avail. Any information would be helpful.
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Theres an Xfinity app in the market. I use it to check the local listings and change my channels with my tab.
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Theres an Xfinity app in the market. I use it to check the local listings and change my channels with my tab.
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I have the Xfinity app. I was hoping to watch shows on my tab. Thank you all for your feedback.
Best bet would be to bombard Comcast with requests for HC app. The ipad one works fine.
Has anyone tried the BBC F1 website with the tablet? I had a quick play in PC World today, and the buttons on the left of the screen which are clickable on my laptop didn't seem to be responding to my touch on the tablet. Is this a fault with me, or the tablet?
One of things I want to be able to do is watch the F1 video's on the BBC site, so this would be a bit of a blow if it doesn't work!
Thanks
Dave
I can confirm the site works and the navigation on the left works, just watched the 90second guide to the Korean Grand Prix to check and all good.
Thanks, that's good to know
Did you notice if it was the full site that it accessed, or a mobile version of it?
just tried to post reply and site hung on me!
bbc site seems full site. Can play all flash and iplayer site is fab too.
The default browser does open some sites in mobile mode, you just have to find the desktop version link and it will then open it, or use a third party browser as you can not change the settings permanently to desktop mode, only as per each session (search this forum to see) on the default browser.
thanks
Went to view some stats and add points to my "nation" for Medal of Honor Warfighter using my Dolphin browser. The page would not display properly, and I noticed a warning about Adobe Flash not installed or disabled? I had Flash set to always on, but now it showed on demand. Went to change it, and a pop-up warning appeared stating that Adobe has discontinued Flash support for Android! And sure enough, it is no longer in the Google Play Store anymore. WTH???!!!
Is this yet another bit of sabotage from Apple to cripple it hottest competition? Because just about every website uses Flash for something, and this would cripple web browsing on ALL Android based devices. And thus effect a lot of us Android users!
yah, they stopped it ...
This is old news. Adobe discontinued flash for Android since JellyBean and have taken it off the Play Store. ICS is the last supported version. This is due to the fact that Flash is a resource heavy technology that is soon becoming outdated and HTML5 is being adopted more and more everyday. I use the YouTube HTML5 player myself and have been doing so since a few months. I hardly ever find a need for Flash, especially on a mobile device. Of course, people's requirement vary, but like the YouTube HTML5 player, websites are moving towards that everyday. HTML5 is the future, and everyone including Adobe knows it. So I don't think they would spend money and resources developing a technology that will soon be obsolete anyway.
You can still install the Flash Player apk from Adobe's website on both ICS and JellyBean and use it on your device. They haven't removed every trace of it, they've just put it in their legacy section and aren't going to update it anymore.
Guide to install Flash Player manually (use the last ICS version for JB) - http://forums.adobe.com/message/4675670
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I am rather confused here. I have an Android TV computer (Neo X5) and a Samsung Note N7000. The Neo runs 4.2.2 and the Note 4.1.2 both are rooted (not that I think this matters here).
I am having difficulties streaming video from web sites in some cases. Sometimes the video begins to play and then locks up or just spins doing nothing forever. In other cases, I am told by the browser that the plugin is not supported. Worse still, this varies not only by browser but by device (some browsers work on one device while they fail on other devices - using the exact same web page for the video source).
I have installed Dolphin, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. I have Flash 11.x installed. It seems like all of the sources are sending Flash. At least when I load the same pages into FF on my Windows XP computer the player is clearly Flash (I can right click on the player and see the Flash version).
I am testing using the following:
video.pbs.org
startrek.com/video
billmoyers.com/video
Can anyone explain this odd behavior? I am in the USA so location shouldn't be an issue. Right now I have all the browsers installed and get by using the ones that work for each site. But this seems crazy to me.
Thanks.
Perhaps a step in answering my own question:
Well, I found this list of browsers on Android supporting Flash <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2234684> which is informative. Then I did some noodling around looking at the page source for each of the video sources I am trying to run (PBS, StarTrek, Bill Moyers). Of these, only StarTrek is clearly trying to run the Flash player. PBS seems to be using something called JWPlayer <http://www.jwplayer.com/>. And Bill Moyers seems to be using something called PowerPress Player <http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/using-powerpress/>. It seems as if these last 2 may be downloadable plugins that are not Flash after all (which is strange because when I run the same videos successfully in FF on Windows all are clearly using the Flash Player). So maybe I am finding that these last two items are simply not compatible with the various browsers.
What I still am finding hard to understand is why my results vary by device. But it may be Android version differences of some sort instead of something different in the device itself. I also suppose that the version of the browser apps may vary by device and/or Android version and maybe as such the pages delivered to the browser based upon user-agent, etc may be different and this could explain why things differ.