Troubles watching NBC shows from thier website

[Joep L. Blom]

steve schreef:
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> Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> David Fox schreef:
>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:19 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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>>>> Send NBC an email to complain about no linux support, or no "working"
>>>> linux support.  Im pretty sure just like with the olympics you will need
>>>>  moonlight which isnt in a workable state last I tried it.
>>>>
>>>> anyway, try this at hulu....... works perfectly.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.hulu.com/knight-rider
>>> Works fine here too - just tried it. On the other hand, sometimes any
>>> video in this fashion (mplayerplugin & flash) don't work - CNN for
>>> example. I'll sometimes get white screens, with general error - even
>>> if I quit and rerun Firefox it doesn't always work. Then I try back
>>> later, and everything's fine.
>>>
>>> I wonder if some content requires Moonlight or a proprietary
>>> Windows-only codec/method to play, and other content doesn't?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Doesn't work on my 64-bit AMD with Hardy and firefox 3.0.3.
>> It requires Flash version 9 and although I have installed the 
>> work-around library npwrapper.libflasplayer.so it complains about not 
>> having installed libflasplayer 9 or higher. I have the same problem with 
>> youtube. I can however see other sites- apparently using an older 
>> version of flash - without problems. I don't want to use a 32-bit 
>> version of firefox (gives all sort of problems when installing).
>>
>> On another complaint in this thread I think complaining to NBC has the 
>> same effect as complaining to Adobe i.e. none.
>> Joep
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> yeah probably not, but it makes me feel better when I send an email, and
> encourage others to do so as well, to companies that ignore linux.  By
> the way, not to change the subject, but isnt there 32 bit firefox you
> can use?
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Steve,
Yes, I can use a 32-bit firefox, although I have never tried it and 
actually don't want to explore how to. 64-bit processors are more than 
18 years available. The first was the R4000 by Silicon Graphic 
(internally 64-bit but a datapath of 32-bit), followed by the Sun Sparc 
series in 1993. Both using Unix (SGI IRIX), in the beginning still the 
32-bit version but soon a full-blown  64 bit version was available.
AMD anounced it's architecture in 2000 but the first processor arrived 
in 2003. Intel was 2 years later.
Only because M$ couldn't/can't produce a (proper) 64-bit OS is Adobe not 
interested in a 64-bit version. I don't want to succumb to arrogant 
user-unfriendly policy of a software producer.
If I really need to I use W-XP in VirtualBox. But it is an idea to find 
out how to run 32-bit Firefox in a 64-bit environment.
Thanks,
Joep