I received the following in email forward. It is supposedly a customer support call to Idea Cellular. It sounds like it is a staged conversation, but is hilarious anyway! Knowledge of marathi is recommended 
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I am looking for a flash media player which can play audio/video content in browser. I am currently using del.icio.us‘s playtagger for now, but it is limited to mp3 only (I had to change the code a little bit to prevent it from adding multiple inclusions – my changed code is here) and it does not allow rewind/forward.
I also looked at this post which suggests using google video player, which would be nice as it could then also play video files, but it consumes a lot of real estate on the pages. There is also this website mentioned which is nicer but that player is bigger than I want too… And it is probably not a fair use as it is undocumented use…
I also checked out the odeo player, which is nice but you need to host the files on odeo, which is a no-no.
Here are my requirements for this with a scorecard for Playtagger and Google:
- Easy to use. No need to add tag soup for each file. (Del.icio.us + Google -)
- Small size on the page (need to collapse the buttons until user clicks on play button) (Del.icio.us + Google -)
- Ability to rewind/fast forward (Del.icio.us – Google +)
- Play different media formats (mp3/wav/ogg/avi/mpeg video, possibly realmedia) (Del.icio.us – Google +)
Any suggestions ?
Thanks!
Tags: audio, flash, Programming, Scripting, software, webdev
Update: Click here to play all songs in your browser.
To play the song, click on the small triangle before the song name. (needs javascript and flash plugin)
To download the song, right click on song name and select “Save Link As” or “Save Target As”
नाच रे मोरा (Watch Videos)
आम्ही कोळ्यांची पोरं हाय हो (Watch Videos)
अगडम बगडम (Watch Videos)
छडी लागे छम छम (Watch Videos)
चांदोमामा चांदोमामा भागलास का (Watch Videos)
कोणास ठाऊक कसा (Watch Videos)
खोडी माझी काढाल तर (Watch Videos)
लहान माझी बाहुली (Watch Videos)
दिवस उद्याचा सवडीचा (Watch Videos)
सांग सांग भोलानाथ (Watch Videos)
टप टप टप टप टाकीत टापा (Watch Videos)
ये रे ये रे पावसा रूसलास का (Watch Videos)
एक मुलगा गेला तळ्याच्या काठी (Watch Videos)
सांगू काय सांगू काय (Watch Videos)
एका माकडाने काढले दुकान (Watch Videos)
मैना राणी (Watch Videos)
सांग सांग भोलानाथ (Watch Videos)
ससा तो कसा बॊल (Watch Videos)
जंगल जंगल बात चली है (Watch Videos)
Asha and friends – Zamana mein aaye hai deewane – Asha and Lil Champs (Watch Videos)
Some videos from Salil – Sandip:
अगोबाई ढग्गोबाई – Agobai Dhaggobai
मी पप्पाचा ढापून फोन – Mee Pappancha Dhapun Phone
दूर देशी गेला बाबा – Dur Deshi Gela Baba
दमलेल्या बाबाची कहाणी – Damlelya Babachi Kahani
Update: Play all files in your browser.
To play the file, click on the small triangle before the name. (needs javascript and flash plugin)
To download the file, right click on file name and select “Save Link As” or “Save Target As”
Aala Aala Paus आला आला पाउस आला बघा बघा हो आला आला … (Watch Videos)
Mala Pawasat Jau De – ए आई मला पावसात जाऊ दे, एकदाच गं भिजून मला चिंब चिंब होऊदे (Watch Videos)
Chocolate Cha Bungla – असावा सुन्दर (Watch Videos)
Gori Gori Pan – गोरी गोरी पान फुलांसारखी छान दादा मला एक वहिनी आण (Watch Videos)
Koli Geet – Amhi Kolyanchi Pora Hay – आम्ही कोळ्यांची पोरं हाय हो (Watch Videos)
Konas Thauk Kasa – कोणास ठाऊक कसा पण शाळेत गेला ससा (Watch Videos)
Majhya Dadala – आणायचा माझ्या ताईला नवरा आणायचा (Watch Videos)
Mamachya Gawala Jauya – झूक झूक आगिनगाडी धुरांच्या रेघा हवेत काढी (Watch Videos)
Nach Re Mora – नाच रे मोरा आंब्याच्या बनात (देव बाप्पा) (Watch Videos)
Pustak Nantar Vacha – पुस्तक नंतर वाचा (Watch Videos)
Sang Sang Bholanath – सांग सांग भोलानाथ पाऊस पडेल काय (Watch Videos)
Ye Re Ye Re Pawasa – ये रे ये रे पावसा रुसलास का माझ्याशी गट्टी फू केलीस का (Watch Videos)
Ya varyanchya basuni vimani… Shala chandoba gurujinchi – या वार्यांच्या बसुनी विमानी … शाळा चान्दोबा गुरूजींची
Maharshtratimes.com (or maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com) is a marathi news website using unicode fonts. But it does not display correctly on firefox browser. The problem is because of a single HTML div which uses justified font style. It displays correctly on IE (which is why it is not getting fixed) – this could be because of firefox’s buggy implementation of “align: justify” or that IE simply ignores that style (likely).
Anyway, here is a javascript one liner that you can bookmark and once the page is loaded, click on it to fix your font problem.
Fix Ma. Ta. — Drag this link to your bookmarks.
I tried to create a greasemonkey script to do this automatically, but it’s not working for some reason…
Update: Apparently it *is* a mozilla/firefox bug open for 4+ years. See here and here.
Update2: Here is a greasemonkey script by Saravana Kumar to fix this issue. Caution: you might want to change the included domains carefully (it by default runs on all http and https sites!)
Update3: Here is my greasemonkey script specific for maharashtratimes. Enjoy!
Update4: (2009-02-16) The original site seems to have removed this style attribute now. So the above post is now only for posterity.
Tags: devanagari, India, javascript, marathi, Programming, Scripting, unicode, webdev
