Tip to play ShowMeDo video with Ubuntu

[Tim Bower]

ShowMeDo users that are using Ubuntu might want to make note of the
following tip for getting flv video to play in Firefox.

http://freakingtips.com/2009/07/26/play-flv-video-ubuntu-firefox/

I just installed Ubuntu on a laptop and until following this tip, I
could not play ShowMeDo videos.

I blogged about it with a few other comments about Ubuntu...

http://prairiepy.blogspot.com/2009/10/ubuntu-got-it-right-with-sudo.html

The following also has use Ubuntu tips:

http://www.johannes-eva.net/

Thank you,
Tim Bower
Kansas State University at Salina

[Kyran Dale]

hi tim,

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Tim Bower <woods...@gmail.com> wrote:

ShowMeDo users that are using Ubuntu might want to make note of the
following tip for getting flv video to play in Firefox.

hmm. I develop Showmedo on a Kubuntu box and can watch the flvs ok. In my experience flash is a bit of a minefield in the *buntu world. Why it will be so great when we have the html5 video tag up and running.  Thanks a lot for the tips - I'm going to add a little help-box to the video-page including links such as this. The problem with the number of OS-browser-flash configurations is that some will slip through, and people's feedback is usually of the 'videos didn't work' variety, which isn't a lot to go on.

cheers,
Kyran