RE: Problems with flash (swf) player and uTube

[Dan Thurman]

Antonio M wrote:
| Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
| >
| > I cannot seem to get the player to work
| > in Firefox.  Please advise?
| >
| > Thanks-
| > Dan
| >
| what is the reply of about;plugins in Firefox???

Firefox about:plugins reports "everything" is installed,
except for mozplugger claiming that it was not even
configured.  I yum removed this, tried again - no
dice.  But further testing reveal that MOST SWF files
worked - just that some do not.  Different versions
of SWF are not compatable?

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I was wrong about uTube.  It worked as shown below:
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firefox -debug
Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Reading pinyin phrase lib failed
Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM as daemon ...
Reading pinyin phrase lib failed
sh: acroread: command not found
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*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
NewStream: The full URL is http://www.youtube.com/active_sharing.swf
Closed 50 files.
Starting process: /usr/bin/gtk-gnash -x 83886115 -j 550 -k 115 -u 
http://www.youtube.com/active_sharing.swf -F 55 -U 
http://www.youtube.com/ -P bgcolor=#FFFFFF -P flashvars=t=Videos being 
watched right now... -P height=115 -P id=active_sharing -P 
name=active_sharing -P quality=high -P src=active_sharing.swf -P style= 
-P type=application/x-shockwave-flash -P width=550 -P wmode=opaque -
Forked successfully, child process PID is 27850
Shutting down
Child process exited with status 15
plugin instance destruction
shutting down input chan 0x8e17618
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*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
NewStream: The full URL is http://www.youtube.com/player_dcad.swf
Closed 47 files.
Starting process: /usr/bin/gtk-gnash -x 83886115 -j 480 -k 385 -u 
http://www.youtube.com/player_dcad.swf -F 52 -U 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVbznctnnH0&feature=dir -P 
allowfullscreen=true -P allowscriptaccess=always -P bgcolor=#FFFFFF -P 
flashvars=ad_module=true&sourceid=y&video_id=RVbznctnnH0&l=29...

-P height=385 -P id=movie_player -P name=movie_player -P quality=high -P 
src=/player_dcad.swf -P style= -P type=application/x-shockwave-flash -P 
width=480 -
Forked successfully, child process PID is 27858
NewStream: The full URL is http://www.youtube.com/version-check.swf
Closed 48 files.
Starting process: /usr/bin/gtk-gnash -x 0 -j 0 -k 0 -u 
http://www.youtube.com/version-check.swf -F 53 -U 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVbznctnnH0&feature=dir -P 
bgcolor=#FFFFFF -P height=0 -P id=checker -P name=checker -P 
quality=high -P src=/version-check.swf -P style= -P 
type=application/x-shockwave-flash -P width=0 -
Forked successfully, child process PID is 27861
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()

(<unknown>:27858): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad mpegaudioparse0:src 
returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps

(<unknown>:27858): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad mpegaudioparse0:src 
returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
Shutting down
Child process exited with status 15
plugin instance destruction
shutting down input chan 0x89c4ed0
Shutting down
Child process exited with status 15
plugin instance destruction
shutting down input chan 0x89c46e8


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However, a different test SWF file failed, it does
not run - it is blank (in firefox) but works in
windoes.
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NewStream: The full URL is 
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Esalsaman/lives/demos/trdream.swf
Closed 43 files.
Starting process: /usr/bin/gtk-gnash -x 83886115 -j 320 -k 240 -u 
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Esalsaman/lives/demos/trdream.swf -F 48 -U 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/swf-test.html -P height=240 -P 
name=Test -P 
pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Pro...

-P quality=high -P 
src=http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Esalsaman/lives/demos/trdream.swf -P 
type=application/x-shockwave-flash -P width=320 -
Forked successfully, child process PID is 27928


Is it possible that there are some SWF files that are
not playable?  For the most part, I guess I was wrong
in general - it seems to work for many different SWF
versions, but there were some that simply does not
work?


Thanks-
Dan