Non-YouTube videos don't work in F15

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bob McClure Jr writes:

> Yes, that's what got YouTube working.  In my experimentation, I tore
> out every libflashplayer.so and installed the 64-bit libflashplayer.so
> in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/.  No joy.  So I backed up to square one
> and did a "yum reinstall flash-plugin" to restore my damage.  Now, I'm

"yum reinstall flash-plugin" gives you the i386 plugin. It's not going to  
work with your 64 bit Firefox. I heard rumors that it might work if you also  
have nspluginwrapper installed, but I have no first hand evidence of that.

> back to where I was after the upgrade -- no YouTube.  When I bring up
> YT, I get a blank screen where the player should be, and if I click on
> one of the preview images, I get a dialog box, "Launch Application"
> containing "This link needs to be opened with an application.  Send
> to: [Movie Player] -- Choose an Application."  At the bottom is a
> checkbox for "Remember my choice for rtsp links."
>
> If I go to Edit->Preferences->Applications, and scroll down to
> "Shockwave Flash file", the selector box offers "Use Shockwave Flash
> (in Firefox)" or "Use Gnash SWF Viewer (default)".  Neither of those
> make any difference.
>
> I am mystified.

Sounds to me like you're trying to shove an i386 plugin into your 64 bit  
Firefox.

Not going to work.

Sounds to me like you have the i386 plugin installed. Then you've thrown the  
x86_64 beta flash plugin at Firefox. So now Firefox has two of them.  
Hilarity ensues.

With your 64 bit Firefox, uninstall flash-plugin. Uninstall Adobe's yum repo  
rpm. It will not work. It's 32 bit only. Once the 64 bit flash is out of  
beta, perhaps Adobe will set up an x86-64 yum repo. But as of now, only the  
manually instaleld beta 64 bit plugin results in a working flash plugin in  
Firefox. Set Firefox to "Use Shockwave Flash" for SWF content.

I would also recommend uninstalling nspluginwrapper. Put just  
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so, which should be the 64 bit  
libflashplayer.so. I rolled my own rpm to install it, to prevent something  
else from clobbering it, but you can just install it manually. Make sure the  
permissions on the .so are correct.


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