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So my client has an old pc he wanted me to repurpose into a video streaming, Internet browsing machine. Since his computer is too slow to run windows. I found him a Linux distro that looks nice and I installed it on his computer ( elementary os ). It runs very smoothly but he said he couldn't watch any videos from this site 

 

http://v.qq.com/

 

I use the chromium browser and I installed flash and java and it still doesn't work. What other video codecs can I install to make this machine useable on this website?

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It works for me on Firefox and Linux Mint... but seeing as how that entire site is in Chinese, I have no clue how to help. Give Firefox a try I guess?

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8 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

So my client has an old pc he wanted me to repurpose into a video streaming, Internet browsing machine. Since his computer is too slow to run windows. I found him a Linux distro that looks nice and I installed it on his computer ( elementary os ). It runs very smoothly but he said he couldn't watch any videos from this site 

 

http://v.qq.com/

 

I use the chromium browser and I installed flash and java and it still doesn't work. What other video codecs can I install to make this machine useable on this website?

seems like the site has a custom video player. those do never work good on low end machines. its pretty much the sites fault.

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2 minutes ago, ChrisCross said:

seems like the site has a custom video player. those do never work good on low end machines. its pretty much the sites fault.

 

3 minutes ago, steezemageeze said:

It works for me on Firefox and Linux Mint... but seeing as how that entire site is in Chinese, I have no clue how to help. Give Firefox a try I guess?

Is there any way I watch that site? I have already Installed elemenatry os on his computer? Any other ways?

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1 minute ago, AlanAlan said:

 

Is there any way I watch that site? I have already Installed elemenatry os on his computer? Any other ways?

it works with chrome in linux ubuntu gnome but i have an i5. unfortanetely i cant go to my raspberry and test with raspbian and chromium right now.

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4 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

 

Is there any way I watch that site? I have already Installed elemenatry os on his computer? Any other ways?

its the flash player. does chromium support that by default?

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Try installing chrome from google, it still has built in flash, adobe hasn't supported flash for linux since 11.2 (windows they are on 21), but here is the link to download flash player

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

 

Google chrome

https://www.google.com/chrome/

 

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1 hour ago, flowalex said:

Try installing chrome from google, it still has built in flash, adobe hasn't supported flash for linux since 11.2 (windows they are on 21), but here is the link to download flash player

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

 

Google chrome

https://www.google.com/chrome/

 

1 hour ago, ChrisCross said:

its the flash player. does chromium support that by default?

I get the error miss plugin

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13 minutes ago, AlanAlan said:

 

I get the error miss plugin

I don't use chromium, but the chrome download from google and I can get flash based players to work eg. twitch )the only site where it doesn't work is xfinitytv.comcast.net which is Comcasts fault for not working known issue)  It should work for Elementary OS, my Ubuntu 16.04 install almost matches Freya. Screenshot below

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the site uses flash, the easiest way to get flash on linux is to use chromium.

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2 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

the site uses flash, the easiest way to get flash on linux is to use chromium.

 

14 hours ago, flowalex said:

I don't use chromium, but the chrome download from google and I can get flash based players to work eg. twitch )the only site where it doesn't work is xfinitytv.comcast.net which is Comcasts fault for not working known issue)  It should work for Elementary OS, my Ubuntu 16.04 install almost matches Freya. Screenshot below

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15 hours ago, flowalex said:

Try installing chrome from google, it still has built in flash, adobe hasn't supported flash for linux since 11.2 (windows they are on 21), but here is the link to download flash player

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

 

Google chrome

https://www.google.com/chrome/

 

15 hours ago, ChrisCross said:

its the flash player. does chromium support that by default?

So I go to chrome.com download the .deb file extract it and install it right?

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So I go to chrome.com download the .deb file extract it and install it right?

cant you get it via the command line?

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6 hours ago, ChrisCross said:

cant you get it via the command line?

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

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On May 22, 2016 at 6:29 AM, flowalex said:

That is what I do

Not sure

 

On May 22, 2016 at 0:52 PM, vorticalbox said:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

 unfortunately I installed the 32 Bit Version for my client and chrome is no longer supporting 32 bit for linux

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4 hours ago, AlanAlan said:

 

 unfortunately I installed the 32 Bit Version for my client and chrome is no longer supporting 32 bit for linux

if you have 2GB of memory I suggest just installing 64bit linux.

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