AccuWeather

**malcolmlewis** · 20-Oct-2009, 10:59

Originally Posted by Graham P Davis

oldcpu wrote:

>
> Cloddy;2053241 Wrote:
>> How about 22 hours on a 20Mb link - and still waiting?
> You are kidding? You waited 22 hours? In my rather humble view,
> after waiting for a couple of minutes, maximum, there is no point in
> continuing. ... My view is it is counter productive to wait 22 hours,
> and in such a case the investigation time is far better spent
> elsewhere.
>

Which is what I did. The 22 hours - more than that now - is on a
machine that I only use for testing, so no time wasted.
>
> I noted in my earlier post, that I succeeded in a 64-bit openSUSE-11.1
> with MozillaFirefox-3.5.3. I also have flash-player-10.0.32.18-0.1.1
> and nspluginwrapper-1.2.2-7.1 and the depreciated
> mplayerplug-in-3.55+cvs20090923-0.pm.2.2 . It works fine.

I have same Firefox, flash is 10.0.32.18-3.1. Nspluginwrapper and
mplayer are not installed. That's 11.2,

>
> I think rather than wait 22 hours it would be far more useful to check
> one's version numbers and applications against what I have installed,
> where what I have installed "just works" ... to see if there are any
> differences. If no differences from what I have in place on my PC,
> then state so. If there are differences, then possibly try what I
> have in place to see if it works?

I'll try that - Blimey! That was weird. Just got switched to the login
screen. Session hadn't crashed but the system just decided I'd be
better off elsewhere. Switched back OK so no harm done.

As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, I'll try that.
Firefox has always been a bit flaky with its plugins - at least it has
for me.

>
> I definitely do not have 22 hours to waste on this particular weather
> web site. There are other weather sites that I believe to be
> superior.
>
>

As a retired meteorologist, I'd agree with you but then I'm biased.

It works fine with the chromium-browser.

I use QGIS and the Conus radar data along with the shape files from
noaa if I want a bit of detail when it gets stormy here.

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**oldcpu** · 20-Oct-2009, 11:24

Originally Posted by Cloddy

I have same Firefox, flash is 10.0.32.18-3.1. Nspluginwrapper and mplayer are not installed. That's 11.2,

I just tried again successfully with a 64-bit openSUSE-11.1 with MozillaFirefox-3.5.3. I also have flash-player-10.0.32.18-0.1.1 and nspluginwrapper-1.2.2-7.1 and the depreciated mplayerplug-in-3.55+cvs20090923-0.pm.2.2 . It works fine.

My guess is the mplayerplug-in makes the difference.

**Cloddy** · 20-Oct-2009, 12:43

oldcpu wrote:

>
> Cloddy;2053414 Wrote:
>> I have same Firefox, flash is 10.0.32.18-3.1. Nspluginwrapper and
>> mplayer are not installed. That's 11.2,
> I just tried again successfully with a 64-bit openSUSE-11.1 with
> MozillaFirefox-3.5.3. I also have flash-player-10.0.32.18-0.1.1 and
> nspluginwrapper-1.2.2-7.1 and the depreciated
> mplayerplug-in-3.55+cvs20090923-0.pm.2.2 . It works fine.
>
> My guess is the mplayerplug-in makes the difference.
>
>

I'm afraid it didn't work for me. Mind you, that was on 11.2 - haven't
checked my setup on 11.1 yet.

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"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."

**Cloddy** · 20-Oct-2009, 12:57

suse tpx60s wrote:

>
> I was basically just replying to the OP's question. Wasn't particularly
> looking for a way to resolve the problem but I may as well provide my
> details if that helps anyone.
> I have 32bit 11.1, flash player 10.0.32.18-0.1.1, mplayerplugin
> 3.55+cvs20090923-0.pm.2.2.
>
> As for the BBC news site I thought the videos may only be for UK
> viewers so never really bothered about checking why they don't work.
>
>

I've had similar troubles with BBC but often found switching to hi-res - if
available, which isn't often on the news section - sorted things out.

I'm on 11.2 at the moment and having no trouble with the BBC News videos or
any others so far - about the only thing I've not had trouble with.

On this machine, I've got a slightly later flash - 0.0.32.18-3.1 - and no
mplayer.

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**oldcpu** · 20-Oct-2009, 16:07

Originally Posted by Cloddy

I'm afraid it didn't work for me. Mind you, that was on 11.2 - haven't checked my setup on 11.1 yet.

I successfully played a video from AccuWeather on my sandbox PC running a 32-bit openSUSE-11.2 RC1 with MozillaFirefox-3.5.3-3.2.i586, flash-player-10.0.32.18-3.1.i586 and pullin-flash-player-11.2-1.5.i586 (but not having mplayerplug-in nor gecko-mediaplayer).

This was a fresh install from the 11.2 32-bit DVD with KDE-4.3.1. I also do NOT update with a bunch of factory KDE packages after installing, but I leave 'as is' and only install some packman packages.

**dwightpaige79** · 20-Oct-2009, 16:53

Originally Posted by malcolmlewis

It works fine with the chromium-browser.

I use QGIS and the Conus radar data along with the shape files from
noaa if I want a bit of detail when it gets stormy here.

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What is chromium-browser and how do I get it???

**dwightpaige79** · 20-Oct-2009, 17:15

Originally Posted by dwightpaige79

Thanks everyone for replies. I'll have to dink around a little more and then see what to do... Had a few thoughts at work today, will try some things and post back later this week.

In Firefox it was related to AdblockPlus. I added a simple filter

@@|AccuWeather.com Video

and now AccuWeather videos work again.

Now bear in mind that accuweather.com worked for me for years is Firefox w/AdblockPlus enabled. So AccuWeather recently did something like maybe put adds at the beginning of videos...

**malcolmlewis** · 20-Oct-2009, 17:18

Originally Posted by dwightpaige79

malcolmlewis;2053428 Wrote:
> It works fine with the chromium-browser.
>
> I use QGIS and the Conus radar data along with the shape files from
> noaa if I want a bit of detail when it gets stormy here.
>

What is chromium-browser and how do I get it???

Hi
Google Chrome

http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/10/chr...ge-in-contrib/

http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...tory:/Contrib/

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**dwightpaige79** · 20-Oct-2009, 20:13

Originally Posted by malcolmlewis

Hi
Google Chrome

stick's corner � Chromium package in Contrib

Index of /repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Contrib

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Thanks I'll give that a try sometime this week.

**Cloddy** · 22-Oct-2009, 02:25

dwightpaige79 wrote:

> In Firefox it was related to AdblockPlus. I added a simple filter
> [@@|http://www.accuweather.com/]
> and now AccuWeather videos work again.

Thanks for spotting that. I've played around a bit and found the following
filter also does the job:
@@|http://vortex.accuweather.com/*

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"I wear the cheese. It does not wear me."