Flash videos in Fedora 9 via swfdec or proprietary plugin?

[Valent Turkovic]

2008/1/27 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 20:21 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > 2008/1/26 Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org>:
> > > On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 19:26 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I removed macromedia flash plugin and then installed swfdec and
> > > > gstreamer-ffmpeg (both from livna) and under Fedora 8 nothing works, not
> > > > even the audio. I saw that swfdec in F8 is 0.5.3 and in rawhide its
> > > > 0.5.5 so maybe this is too old version...
> > >
> > > That swfdec for F8 your using is from livna I'm assuming, which doesn't
> > > have pulse audio or gstreamer support enabled.
> > >
> > > Later,
> > > /B
> >
> > Yes from livna. But one in Rawhide should work? As I said on swfdec
> > mailing list it still doesn't work in rawhide even after installing
> > all gstreamer plugins and gstreamer-ffmpeg
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > On Fedora 8 I tried also coping
> > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so from rawhide to fedora 8,
> > just to see if it will work :)
> > It didn't :)
> >
> > Valent.
> >
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> Dunno whats wrong with your config, but for me under F8 its working
> flawlessly after I updated swfdec to rawhide version (the previous
> worked as well, only without audio and some videos, mostly those from
> youtube but accessed from elsewhere, didn't work).
>
> Here's what I've got (you can safely ignore the *-devel packages):
> $ rpm -qa | grep swfdec
> swfdec-mozilla-0.5.5-2.fc9
> swfdec-gtk-0.5.5-2.fc9
> swfdec-0.5.5-2.fc9
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
> gstreamer-0.10.15-1.fc8
> gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.5-12.lvn8
> gstreamer-tools-0.10.15-1.fc8
> gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.15-1.fc8
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.6-5.lvn8
> gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.6-7.fc8
> gstreamer-python-0.10.8-2.fc8
> gstreamer-plugins-pulse-0.9.5-0.4.svn20070924.fc8
> gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.3-1.lvn8
> gstreamer-devel-0.10.15-1.fc8
> gstreamer-plugins-base-devel-0.10.15-1.fc8
>
> Hope this helps you fix your problems. Also, I don't use the proprietary
> plugin, so swfdec is the only plugin installed that can handle flash.
>
> Martin
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I just updated rawhide with latest updates and rebooted, and now it works.
I'll test it a bit more and then report back.

Valent.

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