darry19662018 wrote:nteresting on Tanker's machine Seamonkey won't play html5 but on mine it does.
Palemoon doesn't - Mike do you think this is an ffmpeg issue I updated ffmpeg from Shinobar as well as xine-lib and xine-ui they were all Shinobar updates here:
http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/pup4/opt/pets/
namely ffmpeg 20100408
and Xine-lib 1.1.19-full from that page with xine-ui .pet and it plays most of the mp4's I throw at it from mp4's downloaded by clipgrab.
Mm. I was thinking more along the lines of this one:-
3.2.2-static-i686.pet.
I've got several brace of newer static packages than this one, too, but for 431 you don't want to go ridiculously new, do you? Well, I don't think so.....bearing in mind that most of the other components are still pretty old, yes?
I know from experience that upgrading ffmpeg in many of my older Pups fixed a long-standing issue I'd had with audio reproduction ever since I switched from Ubuntu to Pup nearly 5 years ago. Playback was never the issue; audio recording was trouble-free in Ubuntu, but got really slow and 'treacly' after migrating to Puppy.....and this is the exact same hardware, which is what I couldn't work out. It wasn't until I tried one of Fred's 'Dogs' that the problem seemed to suddenly resolve itself, so I did some digging & un-earthed what was at the root of it all; ffmpeg itself.
Many Pups come with a really ancient, stripped-back version. Great for saving space, but I'll bet it's behind many other Puppians' audio issues, too.....not just mine. 3.2.2 is the one I've used with great success in most of 'em.
I'll be installing this myself, tomorrow, so it's up to you. Feel free to help yourself and do whatever you like with it.
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(Actually, thinking about it, I'm going to put that on hold for a wee while. This is the guy who's put all the 'static' builds of ffmpeg together.....John Van Sickle:-
https://www.johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
You might want to put one more build together if you can follow jrb's tutorial for doing a kernel swap in the older Pups:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60180
.....since these are compiled for 2.6.32 upwards, and I believe 431 uses 2.6.30. I'm in Slacko 560 tonight, so I can't be arsed to switch over and check, I'm afraid! I'll do it tomorrow.)
I think 2.6.32 must have been some kind of a watershed, 'cos if you ever look in the 'Properties' of most binaries'n'stuff, it almost always seems to mention 'k2.6.32' down the bottom somewhere.
Mike.