Re: OT: Flash on (Linux-Based) Samsung SmartTV

Doug <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:39:41 -0600



    On 12/20/2016 03:30 PM, fred roller
      wrote:

    
      Or a hdmi/vga cord and use the TV as a monitor.
        Usually a plug and play experience for the tech challenged. 
        Since it already works on his pc/laptop should be easy.
    
    Not necessarily. It does not follow that sound will go with the
    video. In Windows it did not--don't know if in Win10 it does, and in
    Linux, depends on the version of Pulse Audio and how lucky you are
    to find the combination of many possibilities. (Works well in Mint
    17.3 LTS. Could not get it to work in latest version of PCLOS.)

    
    --doug

    
      Fred Roller
      

        On Dec 20, 2016 4:04 PM, "Tim Evans"
          <tkevans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          I'm trying
            to long-distance-coach a tech-challenged friend on using his
            Samsung SmartTV's web browser to view content his Cable TV
            service doesn't carry. (This is not trying to get around
            stuff without paying--the content, out of area sports, FWIW,
            is freely available to watch on his PC.)

            
            When he tries to access the content with the
            Samsung-embedded browser, he gets an immediate prompt to
            upgrade Flash.  Following the offered links allows access to
            what is labeled as "Linux" rpm and/or tgz versions, neither
            of which will install on the TV. So, the content won't load.

            
            While I've suggest he do a general upgrade of the TV
            firmware, in hopes there's a usable Flash upgrade included,
            I'm thinking of pointing him in a different direction--say,
            a ChromeCast.

            
            Any other suggestions? Thanks.

            -- 

            Tim Evans                       |5 Chestnut Court

            443-394-3864     
                              |Owings Mills, MD 21117

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