Ustream

[oldtimetech]

I have tried and tried on Wednesday nights to watch the advertised q&a's for that night, but Ustream is unable/or maybe it's my machine that's unable and I've tried it on two different computers....but I cannot connect. It continually tells me I have a security problem.

Now I will admit, both of the computers I run, have Ubuntu 8.04.01 on them and I have loaded all the java, flash and such that is needed for any video I should want to watch. Also things on Technet, Cnet, Utube and such run fine....but I cannot seem to view any of Ustream's video.

Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

[rich]

Is this for any Ustream broadcast or just ours? In addition, are you loading from http://www.pcmech.com/live or http://ustream.tv/channel/pcmech-live ?

[oldtimetech]

Well your the only Ustream broadcast that I know about in my sphere of things I watch...so I would have to stay just yours.

And I've tried loading it from both of the links you provided without any difference in the way it reacts to my computer.

[rich]

My only guess is that you have the version 8 Flash player and not 9 on Ubuntu. There are ways to get v9 on that OS, shown here http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_flash_player9 - but I suggest enabling the "universal" repositories to see if there's anything in Add/Remove that's v9 specific. If you can install v9 via that method that would be the way to go before diving into the command line and retrieving it via apt-get.

[oldtimetech]

I already have flash player 9 installed, according synaptic package manager....actually 9.0.1.something

I also have the macromedia flash for mozilla since I use firefox 3.

And the repositories I have available are main, universe, restricted and multiverse.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

[rich]

Try seeing if you can get any info that would help from here (I'm out of ideas) - it appears it may be an issue with Ustream itself.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=776311

[oldtimetech]

Rich....I'm one of the writers in that forum....I use oldtimetech on the Ubuntu forums just as I do here....

And yes, I'm running 64bit Ubuntu on my laptop and my desktop.

Ahhh, well thought maybe someone would have an answer, I even sent an email to contact us at Ustream with no answer back from them.

Thanks so much for working on this.

I did a search on all of Ubuntu forums and found that it is mostly 64bit Ubuntu that has the problems and that Flash 9 is the problem....so hopefully Flash 10 will take care of the problem.

Again Thank you