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1425596 2016-09-21 04:47:00 VLC doesn't play them on my Mint 17.3 or Mint 18

Or Firefox it turns out.

But I can play them OK with Gnash
All 3 at once.:punk 		KarameaDave (15222)
1425597 2016-09-21 06:07:00 Right, I downloaded those sample files you linked to Rod, and Firefox (set as default) wouldn’t open them, but if I changed to gnash-gdk-launcher they opened fine . Problem is my original files still won’t open .

Now, a couple of things have crossed my mind .

1: Did either of the sample files have sound? If so, there wasn’t any .

2: Does the size of the file come into it? My files are between 3 & 5MB which could be a problem if they all had to be loaded to memory? Don’t know, just thinking out loud .

Which rang a bell, does Linux have a Swap File?

Now, I’m trying to work out whether the Flash Player I linked to, which I know plays swf files, no problem, will work under “Wine”? Problem is I don’t know the correct way to use “Wine” so any advice would be appreciated .

(For those thinking just grab a bottle and drink it, no show, the wife moves faster than me!) :(

Anyway, the bottom line is in two weeks we can Play Videos, Play Music, use the Internet, get E-Mails (Thunderbird), Open Widows Office Documents with Libre, including XLS files with Macros, in fact the only real challenge has been these damn swf files which windows Media Player wouldn’t play anyway .

Linux has certainly come a long way since I dumped it years ago because I couldn’t get a soft, dial-up modem to work .

Yes, there will be other challenges when we get into photo, sound, and movie editing programmes, but whilst I would like to be Microsoft free, they aren’t Microsoft programmes anyway, and are used so infrequently I can just leave my Win7 computer disconnected from the Internet and call it “Special Purpose” .

I’m expecting the “Microsoft Mafia” to turn up any time now to see why the Win 7 machine hasn’t called home . :D 		B.M. (505)
1425598 2016-09-21 06:21:00 VLC doesn't play them on my Mint 17.3 or Mint 18

Or Firefox it turns out.

But I can play them OK with Gnash
All 3 at once.:punk

Just caught up with your thread Dave after I posted.

Whilst I never got ambitious enough to try more than one at a time our findings were the same.

Do they have sound, I guess not if your playing three at a time. :D 		B.M. (505)
1425599 2016-09-21 08:09:00 Well, when I open one I get sound.
Do I recall you had to hack your sound system with pavucontrol?

Look there. 		KarameaDave (15222)
1425600 2016-09-21 08:15:00 Well, when I open one I get sound.
Do I recall you had to hack your sound system with pavucontrol?

Look there. 		KarameaDave (15222)
1425601 2016-09-21 08:16:00 Oooow double post ! KarameaDave (15222)
1425602 2016-09-21 10:26:00 VLC doesn't play them on my Mint 17.3 or Mint 18

Or Firefox it turns out.

But I can play them OK with Gnash
All 3 at once.:punk

Hmm, my vlc won't play any of the swf samples I could find with a quick search either (gnash works), but it definitely did play swf's generated by a camera monitor setup (motion).
Seems it's just a container format, so probably depends on the actual content. 		fred_fish (15241)
1425603 2016-09-21 13:05:00 Right, I downloaded those sample files you linked to Rod, and Firefox (set as default) wouldn’t open them, but if I changed to gnash-gdk-launcher they opened fine . Problem is my original files still won’t open .

Now, a couple of things have crossed my mind .

1: Did either of the sample files have sound? If so, there wasn’t any .

No, there wasn't any sound when I played them in Firefox here .


2: Does the size of the file come into it? My files are between 3 & 5MB which could be a problem if they all had to be loaded to memory? Don’t know, just thinking out loud .

Which rang a bell, does Linux have a Swap File?

I doubt the size of those files will be a problem unless you have very, very limited memory i . e . less than 1Gb . Linux uses a swap partition not a swap file . The swap partition would have been created when you installed Mint .


Now, I’m trying to work out whether the Flash Player I linked to, which I know plays swf files, no problem, will work under “Wine”? Problem is I don’t know the correct way to use “Wine” so any advice would be appreciated .

(For those thinking just grab a bottle and drink it, no show, the wife moves faster than me!) :(

Did you install that Windows Flash player? . . . If so you should be able to find it in the Start Menu . Either use the search function in the menu or there should be a separate entry in the Start Menu called "Wine" and any Wine applications should be found within it . :)


Anyway, the bottom line is in two weeks we can Play Videos, Play Music, use the Internet, get E-Mails (Thunderbird), Open Widows Office Documents with Libre, including XLS files with Macros, in fact the only real challenge has been these damn swf files which windows Media Player wouldn’t play anyway .

Linux has certainly come a long way since I dumped it years ago because I couldn’t get a soft, dial-up modem to work .

Yes, I agree . I first had a look a Linux around 2000 and it was certainly a geeks paradise back then . But when I had another look in 2008 I was very surprised how much more user friendly it had become . Only thing I had trouble with was setting up my old Lexmark printer, but I resolved that after some research using a Lexmark Linux driver for another model . My current Brother printer was much easier to install as Brother supplied Linux drivers for it . 		Rod J (451)
1425604 2016-09-21 14:19:00 I think an update to Firefox stopped the playback of . swf files as I tried again tonight and they wouldn't play in Firefox :( . It kept asking me what I wanted to open them with and gnash-gtk-launcher played them OK . To get them to play in Firefox again I had to edit a system file (/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop . org . xml) . This web page details how: . com/questions/726789/flash-files-swf-prompts-for-download-instead-of-opening" target="_blank">superuser . com This is a little advanced, so don't bother with this if you are happy playing . swf files in Gnash .

I can't figure out why your own . swf files still won't play . Are you sure the file hasn't been corrupted on the flash drive? Can you play that . swf file in Windows from the flash drive? 		Rod J (451)
1425605 2016-09-21 22:26:00 Since this appears to be the linux post , tried to find answers on google, The search ---- "Kubuntu change workgroup name" basically all the same everything appears to bring up Ubuntu results and guess what doesn't work . Installed samba, seems strange it wasn't already there.

What I'm trying to do is replicate the problem fred asked about in PCTeks post to try and finally get an answer.

BUT changing the workgroup - what a mission, Kubuntu --- all the suggestions don't work.
Its suggested you open a terminal (easy) type in sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf Asks for password(entered) retype sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf SOURCE (www.linuxtopia.org) & 2nd source (petestechblog.com)

Error sudo: gedit command not found

What a muck about, why not just have an option in the settings ? Shouldn't have to install programs just to make basic setting changes. I have done it in the past years ago, and even then it was a lot of cmd work.

So what the fix ? 		wainuitech (129)
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