[WLUG] Washtenaw Linux Users Group Meeting 10/17/2019 8:00pm

[Charles Dayringer]

Chromium is the one that does *not* work. Won't play youtube videos. 
Firefox works fine.

It's a Chromecast projector device, so I thought using chromium might 
give me an in, but chromium will not play youtube videos, so that was a 
dead end. So sad.

Got it working through an android phone, though, so will not worry about 
it. My kids just had a baby, so we're watching their house while they 
are in the hospital. No TV here, just the projector.

-cd


On 2019-10-25 2:51 p.m., Shawn Hughes wrote:
>
> 1)  youtube not playing at all on xubuntu firefox.
> Hmm, I primarily use Chromium (it works).  I booted up an old machine 
> having Mint LMDE 'Betsy' (debian Jessie) + Firefox at v63:  Youtube works.
> Can only guess you may be missing some non-free (not open-source) 
> packages necessary to play the videos.
>
> 2) streaming from Firefox to TV
> Will probably need more info about the TV side:
> It is probably some sort of 'streaming stick' (chromecast, Roku, 
> Fire-TV, etc.).
> It may be baked into the TV software, or be a small device with HDMI 
> output connected to TV or projector.
> Some have a iOS / Android App published by the device manufacture 
> designed to stream from phone to TV.
> And perhaps (most likely Google Chrome -> Chromecast) from a browser 
> on Windows or Mac to a the TV.
>
> An Internet search for [ chromecast  linux firefox ] did turn up some 
> results, but I've not vetted nor tried any of them.
> And of course, you might be working with a different streaming device.
>
> Shawn
>
> On 10/25/19 12:36 PM, Charles Dayringer wrote:
>> At my kids house, they have a wifi projector TV, access it via their 
>> phone over the wifi.
>> There's just an icon that shows up on their screen when watching 
>> youtube or whatever, they click it, and voila, it's on the TV.
>> Anybody know how to make this work using xubuntu w/ Firefox?
>> I tried chromium, but that won't play any youtube videos at all, says 
>> the browser doesn't recognize the video formats, which is baloney, 
>> it's updated.
>> xubuntu 19.04, running on a HP laptop.
>> -cd
>>
>>
>> On 2019-10-15 4:25 p.m., Mike Bernson wrote:
>>> *** Meeting Announcement ***
>>>                                              for the
>>>                                  Washtenaw Linux Users Group - WLUG
>>>
>>>                             Date/Time: Thursday October 17, 2019 at 8pm
>>>
>>>                             Location:  Washtenaw Community College
>>>                                        4800 E.Huron River Drive
>>>                                        Ann Arbor, Michigan
>>>                                        Room BE-140
>>>
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