Video players, plugins, Firefox and 64 bit

[John Lagrue]

On 03/08/07, RavenOak <ravenoak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 19:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:24:30 +0100
> > "John Lagrue" <jlagrue at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've even resorted to installing firefox-32. And it made sod-all difference.
> >
> > Merely installing the 32 bit version doesn't actually make it
> > run the 32 bit version - the "firefox" shell script always
> > runs the 64 bit version if it finds it on the system.
> >
> > There is supposed to be some kind of magic environment variable
> > you can set to force it to run 32 bit, but I take a different
> > approach - I edit the /usr/bin/firefox script and change all
> > "lib64" strings in it to "wubba-wubba-wubba", then it can't
> > find the "wubba-wubba-wubba" version, so it is willing to
> > run the 32 bit version instead :-).
> >
>
> The package "firefox-32" installs a command called "firefox-32" and it
> does invoke 32bit firefox, unless for some strange reason Adobe has
> gotten flash to work with 64bit firefox...'cause I can see flash on my
> 64bit workstation.
>

I don't have a problem with Flash. nspluginwrapper works a treat. I
just can't get ***ing video working from the BBC site.

JDL