Online video for Canadians...

["Stéphane S. Somé"]

Totally agree with that.. How do we tell them (particularly CBC which is 
tax funded) that there're other OSes beside windows and mac ?

Stéphane
Mike Leahy wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thanks for the tip - that solves that problem.  Even so...I'm not particularly 
> satisfied letting Global TV off the hook that easy.  Performance and picture is 
> much better if I can play it natively.  Really, it shouldn't be too much to 
> ask to have the developers of these applications test things on an ubuntu 
> machine. 
>
> Mike
>
> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:32:38 Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Mike Leahy <mgleahy at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> 
>>     
> wrote:
>   
>>> a similar solution, but I don't quite have the time
>>> to really figure it all out.  The best I can due right now is view Global
>>> TV from windows versions of FireFox/Flash installed via wine...but that
>>> rules out fullscreen (trust me...don't try it).
>>>       
>> fullscreen works for me.  Have you turned off graphic acceleration in
>> the windows flash plugin?
>> (you need to right click in a flash "window" to access the flash
>>  preferences)
>>
>> That solved a lot of problems I initially had in that
>> wine+firefox+flash setup.  And now at least I can watch cbc.ca and
>> globaltv.com from within Ubuntu.
>> ou
>>     
>
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