[ale] Flash player 10 and CNN.com videos

[robert mccurdy]

* decode the flash or use a proxy/etterfilter to change what ever part of the stream you want. sometimes you can use URLSnooper (M$) or the likes to find the URL it is going to load ?

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--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
From: Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] Flash player 10 and CNN.com videos
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 8:05 PM

WoooHoo!  CNN has fixed this.  Quite speedily too, I might add.

Thanks  CNN!

-Jim P.

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 16:26, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> IIRC, there are some CNN.com gurus that frequent ALE, if so I'd like
> to point out an issue on CNN.com (as well as seek a work around for
> the problem from anyone else).
>
> When attempting to watch videos on CNN.com with the latest Adobe Flash
> player v10, I receive the following notice:
>
>                  This CNN.com feature is optimized for Adobe Flash
> Player version 8 or higher.
>                                            You are currently using
> Flash Player 10
>
>
> It seems that main.js::CNN_FlashDetect()  needs an update.   In the
> meantime, does anyone know of a way to override this?   Is it possible
> to fool sites into thinking Flash player is really version 9 (ala
> UserAgent overrides)?
>
> Thx,
>
> -Jim P.
>
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