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

[Charles Dayringer]

correction: chromium will play the youtube music videos, but not the 
youtube free film videos.
-cd


On 2019-10-25 5:11 p.m., Charles Dayringer wrote:
> 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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