[olug] pbskids.org and pbskidsplay.org

[Rob Townley]

Yes, the main page comes up, the center video can be played, but when you
sign in and click play, a progress bar gets to about 95% and then the error
dialog pops up that your Operating System is not supported.

I wonder if the flash player hooks into some DirectX or other SDL analogue
that is not supported by Adobe Flash on Linux.  it does work on a Mac.


   - 5. Does PBS KIDS PLAY WORK on a Mac?
   - Yes. It’s compatible with Mac OS X and is fully supported in the
   Safari, Chrome and Firefox browsers.



On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:

> www.pbskidsplay.org on Fedora 16 gives things as they appear they should
> be.
>
> "Get your free 10-day guest pass in a single step:", also has a video and
> a cartoon monkey(Curious George?)
>
> [kevin at ibf ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -e flash -e gnash
> gnash-0.8.10-2.fc16.i686
> gnash-plugin-0.8.10-2.fc16.i686
> flash-plugin-11.2.202.233-release.i386
> [kevin at ibf ~]$
>
>
> On Jun 25, 2012 3:50 PM, "Rob Townley" <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried User Agent Switcher and tried out Internet Explorer 6,7,8 but the
>> when signing into pbsKidsPlay.org, it loads to about 95% but does nothing,
>> not even the error dialog mentioned. Just has the background image.
>>
>> Are you sure you trialled pbsKidsPlay.org (a pay for site) using Ubuntu
>> 12?
>>
>> Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx - released in April 2010 and
>> supported until April 2013.
>>
>> Ubuntu
>> 2.6.32-41-generic #90-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 22 11:29:51 UTC 2012 x86_64
>> GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> $ aptitude show adobe-flashplugin
>>    Package: adobe-flashplugin
>>    State: installed
>>    Automatically installed: no
>>    Version: 11.2.202.236-0lucid1
>>    Priority: optional
>>    Section: web
>>    Maintainer: DL-Flash Player Ubuntu <FlashPlayerUbuntu at adobe.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Sean Sinclair <seanfsinclair at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > It seems to work fine on Ubuntu 12.04. What distribution of Linux did it
>> > not work on?
>> >
>> > On 06/24/2012 02:33 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 06/24/2012 12:43 PM, Rob Townley wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> We have played pbskids.org games and videos for many years on Linux
>> >>> systems
>> >>> ... afterall it is mainly Flash based.
>> >>> Today, i thought i would trial pbsKidsPlay.org but was surprised when
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>  *Error: Unsupported OS
>> >>>
>> >>>        PBS KIDS PLAY! does not support your computer's operating
>> system.
>> >>>                                 OK*
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Odd, seems ok for me, for example,
>> >>
>> >> http://pbskids.org/**curiousgeorge/games/splat_**
>> >> symphony/splat_symphony.html<
>> http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/splat_symphony/splat_symphony.html
>> >
>>
>> >>
>> >> loads up fine without complaint using both firefox and google-chrome
>> >>
>> >> Do you have any specific examples of stuff that doesn't work?
>> >>
>> >> -- rex
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