Non-YouTube videos don't work in F15

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:00:07AM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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.

Okay, did all that.  Used the rc1 tarball from Adobe.  Now I can't see
the video portion of YouTube videos.  However I did notice something
that may be a clue.  While the video (sound only) is playing, I
clicked on the full-screen icon and a black screen came up with a
window title bar that says "GTK-Gnash", never no mind that in
Edit->Preferences->Applications I clicked on "Use Shockwave Flash".
Could it be that FF is locked into using Gnash regardless of what I
select?

Also noted is that after the video plays, the whirlygig in the center
of the viewing screen spins forever, presumably trying to load other
suggestions to view, and sucks about 70% of the CPU.

Absent better suggestions, I'm going back to the 32-bit wrapper.
Thanks for the suggestions, though.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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