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Re: Flash update

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On 2016-04-02, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning
>> that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer
>> web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have
>> to install a cookie to do this. It's still in beta but it works for me,
>> at least with recent versions of Firefox and Chromium.
>
> I don't think I've ever installed a cookie. How would I do this?

I would guess the site installs the cookie which indicates you've opted
in for the HTML5 beta rather than flash (like YouTube used to do).

> Is it one cookie to make the browser entirely HTML5, or is it a
> different cookie for every site?
>
> Would I know that a movie was being played with HTML5 as opposed to flash?

I imagine if you right-clicked inside the screen you'd know pretty
quickly if it was flash or HTML5, although I don't know the IPlayer as
I'm not in the UK (but apparently there's also a "reminder banner").

> When flash streams a movie, a copy is downloaded somewhere on my
> disk. One beneficial effect of this is that if I click the slider to
> an earlier point in the movie, the player plays instantly from that
> point, without a wait for buffering. Is that the same with HTML5,
> or is it truly streaming (with no local copy on the disk)?
>
> Is it easy to revert to flash if I don't like HTML5?

Clear the cookie probably, and you're back to where you started.

> Cheers,
> David.
>
>


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so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that
accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of 
plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag

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  Re: Flash update Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-02 06:10 +0200
    Re: Flash update Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-02 21:40 +0200
      Re: Flash update Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-03 18:10 +0200
        Re: Flash update Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-03 21:00 +0200
          Re: Flash update Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-03 21:00 +0200
    Re: Flash update Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-03 08:30 +0200
  Re: Flash update David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-02 06:40 +0200
    Re: Flash update Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-04-02 12:10 +0200
    Re: Flash update Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-03 07:40 +0200
      Re: Flash update Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-04-03 13:40 +0200
      Re: Flash update David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 06:20 +0200
        Re: Flash update Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-04-04 08:50 +0200
          Re: Flash update Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 15:20 +0200
          Re: Flash update David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 17:20 +0200
        Re: Flash update Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2016-04-04 17:20 +0200
          Re: Flash update David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 21:30 +0200
            Re: Flash update Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-04-05 02:40 +0200
              Re: Flash update Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 03:00 +0200
                Re: Flash update Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-04-05 03:50 +0200
                Re: Flash update Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-04-05 11:10 +0200
                Re: Flash update Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 18:00 +0200
  Re: Flash update Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-03 21:50 +0200
    Re: Flash update Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 15:10 +0200
      Re: Flash update Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-04 16:20 +0200
        Re: Flash update Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-04-04 20:50 +0200

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