cnn flash video
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Dec 21 04:05:41 UTC 2007
Ed Greshko wrote:
> Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:13:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>>> Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
>>>
>>>> No doubt. It's a clean install of F8 with (AFAIK) the latest flash
>>>> plugin.
>>> Oh, I just realized there is probably a difference in my system than
>>> yours.
>>> I'd forgotten that I use Sun's Java stuff and not icedtea. I also
>>> downloaded and installed the flash plugin direct from Adobe.
>>>
>>> As for what some others have said... Well it is the "Holiday" season
>>> and strange as it may seem people tend to get stressed out and snap at
>>> others for no apparent reason. Probably best to ignore some comments.
>>> :-)
>>
>> I had icedtea and sun's latest jre and jdk. I always install sun's java,
>> but I remember vaguely that before making the plugin links I saw there
>> was already a link to libjavaplugin, but I thought I'd give icedtea a
>> chance. After uninstalling icedtea I am now able to see the dbfx prices,
>> but the cnn videos still stop after 1-2 seconds and go blank.
>
> OK....
>
> I managed to duplicate what I think is your problem....
>
> I fixed it by creating the directory ~/.mozilla/plugins. In there I created
> symbolic links. Here is mine, yours may vary...
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 egreshko egreshko 39 2007-12-21 11:32 libflashplayer.so ->
> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 egreshko egreshko 58 2007-12-21 09:41 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
> /usr/java/default/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 egreshko egreshko 37 2007-12-21 11:46 npwrapper.so ->
> /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so
>
> I don't think it will make a difference...but I also have the environment
> variable JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/java_latest/jre set as well as $JAVA_HOME/bin
> set in my PATH.
Forgot to add that it may be necessary to delete the file
~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat for the changes to take.
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