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Firefox Nightly now plays Amazon.com Flash videos using Shumway
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Chris Peterson
Feb 12, 2015, 9:27:33 PM2/12/15
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The Firefox Nightly channel now uses Shumway to play Flash videos on
Amazon.com. The Shumway team has been improving compatibility with Flash
video players and will whitelist more Flash video sites soon.
Shumway will play Amazon's "Product Tour" and user-submitted review
videos like these:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JG8GOWU (Click the Kindle "Product Tour"
button on the left.)
http://www.amazon.com/review/RIWNO96MF2QVV
Note that Shumway will *not* play Amazon's "Instant Video" films and TV
shows. Those videos use Microsoft's Silverlight plugin for DRM.
This test is restricted to the Nightly channel on Windows Vista+ and OS
X. Shumway needs H.264 video decoders that may not be available on
Windows XP or Linux.
If you have any questions, please drop by the #shumway IRC channel. If
you'd like to test Shumway on more websites, you can install the full
Shumway add-on that is not limited to Amazon.com here:
http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/
chris
Amazon.com. The Shumway team has been improving compatibility with Flash
video players and will whitelist more Flash video sites soon.
Shumway will play Amazon's "Product Tour" and user-submitted review
videos like these:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JG8GOWU (Click the Kindle "Product Tour"
button on the left.)
http://www.amazon.com/review/RIWNO96MF2QVV
Note that Shumway will *not* play Amazon's "Instant Video" films and TV
shows. Those videos use Microsoft's Silverlight plugin for DRM.
This test is restricted to the Nightly channel on Windows Vista+ and OS
X. Shumway needs H.264 video decoders that may not be available on
Windows XP or Linux.
If you have any questions, please drop by the #shumway IRC channel. If
you'd like to test Shumway on more websites, you can install the full
Shumway add-on that is not limited to Amazon.com here:
http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/
chris
Etevavoc Kaswi
Feb 16, 2015, 12:12:50 PM2/16/15
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Can i use it as total flash replacement in linux?
Till Schneidereit
Feb 16, 2015, 12:23:54 PM2/16/15
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Etevavoc Kaswi <ogu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can i use it as total flash replacement in linux?
>
If you use Nightly, you can go to about:config and set the
> Can i use it as total flash replacement in linux?
>
shumway.swf.whitelist setting to "*". If you don't want to use Nightly, you
can simply install the extension from http://areweflashyet.com. Both of
these will enable Shumway on all websites.
Two important notes on that, however: until bug 558184[1] is fixed, most
websites won't detect support for Flash playback if the Flash plugin isn't
also installed and active. It won't actually be used so should never even
be instantiated, but it has to be there. More importantly, you should
expect lots of broken content for now. We've been making huge strides in
our compatibility in recent months, but there's still some work left until
all or at least almost all content just works.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558184
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