[geeks] Embedded flash player proxy?

[Francois Dion]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson
<gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:
> For example, I want to use a proxy server in the US to watch a video
> on Scifi.com.
>
> I can use firefox with foxyproxy, which changes my http proxy, or manually
> set it and the http will now go through the proxy, but how do I get the
> video player to use the proxy?
>
> Currently I use an ssh session which acts as a SOCKS version 5 proxy,
> but can do just about anything I want.
> I'm using Windows XP/SP3 currently but could switch to Linux if I had to.

Use firefox + mplayerplug-in + mplayer. mplayer allows you to specify the proxy.

Francois