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20 minutes ago, TechnoRelic said:

Fairly recently, 'Mathwiz' helped me get (MP4) INSTAGRAM Video working with (BK)ST-55 Browser under WinXP.

Cool.

I've test on Instagram, that not worked (on video), cause my ancient "Dark Mode" extension...but if notched Instagram case in this add-on, Instagram video worked!

I've changed my darking extension recently, use now "Dark Background And Light Text" - and all works here: https://www.instagram.com/p/B2jvRllHJvc/

 

 

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23 hours ago, roytam1 said:

I'll just clone their tree and build on top.

as a result, the palemoon builds will have different archive filename naming to something boc-alike.

Thanks for the heads-up; that will surely affect my browser downloader batch file and, I suspect, @i430VX's installer.

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Video problems I've in Serpent 52:

Some TESTS:

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/09/aerial-video-shows-devastation-in-the-bahamas-after-hurricane-dorian/

bnonews.com BNO News - Aerial video from the Bahamas shows devastation after Hurricane Dorian - TEST Serpent 52: NO VIDEO frame in Serpent 52 and Serpent 55, but good in New Moon. 

https://decades.com/videos/standalones/ian-anderson-of-jethro-tull-talks-with-sounds-of-the-time

Decades.com - Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull talks with Sounds of the Time - TEST Serpent 52: NO VIDEO YouTube iframe,  but play in Borealis, New Moon, Serpent 55.

https://www.international.tbs.com/

tbs.com - Turner Entertainment - TEST Serpent 52: NO VIDEO frames after click Play button, no YouTube items in uMatrix (Borealis, New Moon, Serpent 55 OK).

http://terrillthompson.com/tests/youtube.html

terrillthompson.com - YouTube Embedded Player Test - TEST Serpent 52: YouTube Embedded Player Test - in Serpent 52 NO VIDEO iframe in Example 1, 2, 3. All are Good in Serpent 55, New Moon.

https://www.ewtn.com/tv/extra-watch-live

EWTN.com - TEST Serpent 52: video frame only, no frame content, and no items from brightcove and cloudfront in uMatrix...but in Borealis, New Moon, Serpent 55 all is OK!

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_youtube.asp

w3schools.com HTML YouTube Videos: TEST Serpent 52: NO VIDEOS if click on "Try it yourself" button under HTML, Autoplay, Loop, Controls examples. Play only under object and embed...but all is OK in New Moon, Serpent 55.

...and this demo nimius.net Video codec test page -:  http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/

- says under MPEG4: "$ ffmpeg -i source.mp4 -codec:v libxvid test.avi" - "Video format or MIME type is not supported." So this MPEG4 video frame is black, with this morbid description, in my all RoyTam1's browsers.

:rolleyes:And why not to try http://blog.nimius.net/index.html

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11 hours ago, caliber said:

Serpent 52 is unable to download Flash plugin installer when clicking on yellow button

https://get3.adobe.com/es/flashplayer/update/plugin/

Can't confirm here:

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... so it's probably something at your end ;)

 Either location/CDN related, ISP related, firewall related, AV application related or, most likely, Serpent 52 profile related :dubbio:; if it works in a new, clean profile without any extension and with the default settings (GUI and in about:config), then it will signal your issue is due to personal customisations in your current/dirty profile; that could be anything from a GUI-changed setting, a user-set about:config pref, user-installed extension(s) and its (/their) configuration, etc...

 It's hard to offer meaningful/rectifying advice when one is not able to reproduce your issue(s) ... ;) BTW, updating/installing Adobe NPAPI Flash via that route is probably not recommended on Windows XP; at best, you'll get an on-line (aka stub) installer, which will then attempt to fetch the bulk of needed files using OS (XP) libraries; I haven't tried that stub installer recently on XP, but even on Vista there had been reports of the installer being only SHA2 code-signed (this specific one is not :)) and attempting to connect to Adobe's servers via TLS 1.2 exclusively...

Your best bet is updating via SHA1 off-line installers, as per

Adobe Flash Player has been updated to 32.0.0.303 today

:)

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21 hours ago, Mathwiz said:

Thanks for the heads-up; that will surely affect my browser downloader batch file and, I suspect, @i430VX's installer.

and now they did the same to basilisk, so same archive naming will be done on those builds as well. (IA32 build will use same naming although it will use my UXP in-tree basilisk)

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@msfntor

I can (re)assure you ALL video-tests and video links you provided WORK AS INTENDED here with Serpent 52.9.0, even on my dirty profile; to simulate Windows XP better, I disabled Vista's native h264/aac decoder (by setting media.wmf.enabled to false) and let Serpent 52 use its bundled decoders, same as on XP... I can provide screengrabs if you're not convinced, but trust me, I wouldn't lie to you... :P

Two notes:
1. On https://www.international.tbs.com/ several clips are no longer available, e.g. "Miracle Workers, Season 1"; but others, like "Those Who Can’t, SEASON 3", do load and play fine...
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On 12/16/2019 at 4:57 PM, msfntor said:

...and this demo nimius.net Video codec test page -:  http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/

- says under MPEG4: "$ ffmpeg -i source.mp4 -codec:v libxvid test.avi" - "Video format or MIME type is not supported." So this MPEG4 video frame is black, with this morbid description, in my all RoyTam1's browsers.

This is quite normal, since both the (older) AVI media container and the Xvid video decoder ARE NOT supported  :no: in Mozilla type browsers; I don't think even Chromium-based browsers have such support... At best, only WebM (a sub-species of the Matroska) and MP4 containers are supported in HTML5 embedded players (and with a limited choice for video stream codecs); remember, web browsers shouldn't be (or turn into) dedicated media players!

If I were you, I'd stop chasing ghosts; as told before, your issues are probably derived from your extensive use of content blockers (you mentioned uMatrix), privacy extensions/settings, proxy/VPNs etc... The only content blocker here installed in Serpent 52 is uBlock Origin, with the default + several custom filter lists! Everything works as it should!

If you ask for uMartix support to make your videos properly load, then I'm sorry, I'm not the guy to offer that... :(

On 12/16/2019 at 4:57 PM, msfntor said:

And why not to try http://blog.nimius.net/index.html

... Not a big fan of Travolta's myself... :lol:

 

On 12/16/2019 at 8:35 PM, roytam1 said:

and now they did the same to basilisk

... Yes, in

Remove Basilisk from the Unified XUL Platform repository

which leads to

https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Basilisk

Presumably, all that "relocation" was done to address UXP issue #969:

Split applications off from platform (UXP)

in order to

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make it easier for other developers to build UXP applications,

Is it really "easier" for you @roytam1 that way? :angry:

Also, do note last comment by M.A.T. regarding Basilisk (hence Serpent 52):

https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP/issues/969#issuecomment-566201633

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It is NOT build-ready yet

for which https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Basilisk/issues/1 was created :huh:

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10 hours ago, Mathwiz said:

Online installers for Adobe Flash no longer work on Windows XP. Use the links to the offline installers posted by @Bersaglio here:

this is not true. the ''optional offer'' is missing on Serpent 52 and when I click the yellow button it takes me to adobe.com

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13 hours ago, VistaLover said:

even on Vista there had been reports of the installer being only SHA2 code-signed (this specific one is not :)) and attempting to connect to Adobe's servers via TLS 1.2 exclusively...

Your best bet is updating via SHA1 off-line installers, as per

Adobe Flash Player has been updated to 32.0.0.303 today

I have always updated Flash this way and have never felt it was the typical online installer that installs a trojan-like thing to collect data...

Adobe is suposed to be a company with excellent reputation but one never knows what's going on....

https://thehackernews.com/2019/12/avast-and-avg-browser-plugins.html

 

 

 

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10 hours ago, caliber said:

the ''optional offer'' is missing on Serpent 52

It's also missing in New Moon 28, but that's because uBlock0 filters "took care" of it :)

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Disable uBlock0, clear ALL "*.adobe.com" set cookies, clear browser cache and reload the page: 

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The "optional offer" is just adware, I'm glad it's out of the way for me :) ; why would one even complain about missing it? ;)

10 hours ago, caliber said:

when I click the yellow button it takes me to adobe.com

Clicking the "Actualizar ahora" button with uBlock0 enabled just loads: 

https://get3.adobe.com/es/flashplayer/download/?installer=FP_32_for_Firefox_-_NPAPI&os=Vista&browser_type=Gecko&browser_dist=Firefox&type=au&browser_vers=52&stype=7782

for me, after which I am presented with a "save file" prompt, as already previously posted...

As you can see by that URI, the page checks for (and needs to know) your OS and browser type/version, so it can fetch the most suitable for you edition of the stub Flash installer... ;)

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10 hours ago, caliber said:

https://thehackernews.com/2019/12/avast-and-avg-browser-plugins.html

Though I've never been a user of either Avast nor AVG (also Avast-owned currently), thanks for that link :thumbup ; but I can't pretend I'm shocked/surprised; these are, unfortunately, standard practices these days for software companies engaged in apps accessing The Web; especially where so called "Free" versions of their products are available; your personal details (e.g. a valid e-mail address and, as reported in that article, your (sensitive?) browsing habits/history) become the price you have to pay in exchange for using their free version... :realmad: 

(semi-OT, but perhaps not so... : Off to try now latest v12 of 360ExtremeExplorer by Chinese maker QiHu (QiHoo?), based on Chromium 78... No doubt Beijing will soon learn of all my tests there... :lol: )

Happy Holidays :)

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