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Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:52:21 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Flash 5 problem

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Ray Davison wrote:

> > not the least of them being Shockwave. Com, and Atomfilms stock of Flash
> animations.

> The shockwave site says I can watch those movies, right after I install Real
> Player, Windows Media Player or Quicktime.
>
> I think that is a bit of a challenge.

I dunno for sure, but this sounds to me like a defect in the design of their
site. Flash is Flash -- although the version can matter -- and it should be a
standalone requirement; you should not need any of those other items in order to
play a Flash clip. I am unaware of any "hybrid" clips, and it seems quite
unlikely, because each format is proprietary. (I think Shockwave & Flash are
basically synonymous.) There are probably other ways to round up these clips, but
maybe not from that particular site. I think I have picked up a few by
Shift_RightClick d/l, found others in ftp repositories, and gotten others simply
by playing them once in Win, and then scrounging the clip from out of the disk
cache. (If you have a well-equipped Win boot partition somewhere -- even W98 --
it can and should have one or more of those players installed, which would allow
you to deal with a recalcitrant site like this one.)

Jordan

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