[Vote] FlashBox

[Jakh Daven]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <bhavi at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Jakh Daven <tuxcanfly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bhavani,
> >
> > First of all, thanks a lot for the review.
> >
>
> Thanks for your swift reply!
>

Likewise :)


>
> >>
> >> Installed the app as a part of app showdown and found it just pops up
> >> a window with status as ready and a link to a video on vimeo and I
> >> couldnt get to know how the app functions. Would like a simple
> >> help/demo integrated into the app to have an overview of the app
> >> functionality I think personally.
> >
> >
> > Are you using Google Chrome by any chance? The latest versions of chrome
> use
> > PepperFlash
> > and this app only works with Chromium/Firefox and others using NPAPI
> flash.
> > I guess John
> > must be using one of the supported browsers so it worked for him.
> >
> > Could you please try opening the example vimeo url with Chromium/Firefox
> and
> > check if it works for you?
> >
>
> Yes tested it with firefox now on a couple of youtube videos and it
> gets cached on the system which is fine but when caching I find it
> creates a symlink
>
> l-wx------ 1 bhavani bhavani 64 Jul 27 15:41 20 -> pipe:[426305]
>
> which makes it still a bit in-convincing wrt utility of the app.
>
>
Unfortunately, that's just how flash works. This app only collects the
symlinks/files
created by the flash plugin.


> Would really like an option to save cached videos in the view of
> utility of the app on a personal note.
>
>
Yes, I guess I could  add a menu option to save the video.

Glad it worked for you and hope you find it useful.


> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Bhavani Shankar
> Ubuntu Developer       |  www.ubuntu.com
> https://launchpad.net/~bhavi
>
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