VShare appears to no longer work in Linux

[easyed]

Over the past couple of weeks, one has noticed that VShare's plug in for Firefox appears to not work in Linux. Until two Sundays ago, I was able to stream sport events beautifully through this plug in.

It doesn't matter which OS was being used, or whether it was on Live CD/DVD or installed. Veetle appears to have stopped functioning.

In Windows, VShare works well. There appeared to be no change in its behaviour with MS.

Does anyone knows what happened, or why this is? I am guessing VShare dropped compatibility/support of Linux/Unix based platform in same manner PS3 did.

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

VShare is a con they use the plug-in to gain money for a under par flash based streaming service and god knows what rubbish you get led to in a windows machine. Try alternatives like VeedoCast, mips.tv, Rayson.tv, Veemi, Box Live etc... and Veetle works perfectly for me on Mint 10.

[easyed]

I concur with the state of affairs concering VShare. One would not use it to stream things to others. It had worked well for viewing other peoples streams. All of the other alternatives you've mentioned works well for both purposes of uplinking and receiving streams. Unfortunately VShare is a lot of times, the only option to watch. One was curious: Why doesn't VShare work any longer in Linux for watching streams?

[Syncopate]

If you load a VShare stream up in Chromium, it states that the only compatible browsers are IE on Windows and Firefox on Windows/OSX.

So they have released a new plugin that doesn't have *NIX support for even Firefox. That is the why it doesn't work, but the why they didn't make it work is beyond my comprehension.