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RE: mozilla/netscape die when on a shockwave enabled web site
- From: "Bishop, Dean" <dean dot bishop at tcdsb dot org>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:05:30 -0400
- Subject: RE: mozilla/netscape die when on a shockwave enabled web site
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
hmmm. this is an interesting, and plausable theory.
Is it concievable that one of those network audio services might solve this
problem?
thanks again,
dean
-----Original Message-----
From: George N. White III [mailto:WhiteG@dfo-mpo.gc.ca]
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:46 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mozilla/netscape die when on a shockwave enabled web site
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Bishop, Dean wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> i have been running into a bit of a problem in that whenever i visit a
web
> site that has shockwave content, the browser just dies a quiet death.
This
> same site works fine when i use the machine locally.
> this occurs in both mozilla and netscape (various versions).
> i tried removing the shockwave plugin and the browsers didn't die
anymore,
> but i also, obviously, did not get the full content of the web sites.
>
> Any thoughts on how to rectify this?
I have the same problem using my SGI X-server with mozilla/netscape and
also with a linux box that lacks a sound card. This suggests that
cygwin-xfree is a faithful simulation of "real" X-servers. I suspect the
problem is that the X audio extension is missing and or not supported by
shockwave, and that shockwave doesn't handle missing audio support
properly.
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George N. White III <gnw3@acm.org> Bedford Institute of Oceanography