On Thursday 03 September 2009 12:41 AM, s wrote:
On 09/02/2009 01:38 PM, Randall J. Berry wrote:
So far F11 has been nothing short of a pain for me. I have had more
issues with this one release than I have for all of the preceding
releases combined.
Next comes the issues with streaming audio or video. Since the update
of Firefox 3.1 to 3.1.1 all streaming media (youtube and the like)
played through the browser crashes at random points within the stream
usually locking up the browser for a period of time and the
audio/video does not return to normal. I tried to uninstall Firefox
3.1.1 and reinstall Firefox 3.1 but that did not work Firefox simply
ceased to work.
Streaming video was crashing for me too. After trying the different
plugins (Adobe flash, swfdec, xine-plugin) rolling back the
nspluginwrapper to version 1.3.0-5 fixed the problem.
Don't get me wrong, but I find people tend to stick to their old ways
and bork up their system trying to do things they _think_ is the _right_
way to do just because they have been doing it that way for *a long*
time. That doesn't mean something is broken.
For starters, all this business about flash and multimedia, earlier ugly
hacks like wrappers or binary w32 codecs were the _only_ way to go. But
lately that is not the case. Modern linux distributions _do not_ require
packages like libflashsupport or nspluginwrapper to meet the usual
requirements of an user. Most of the time its these which cause the problem.
If the people having problems could be more specific and descriptive
about their problems then those of us with everything _just working_
could try to help. I for one have an almost perfect experience other
than an unstable session manager for XFCE.
This is what I have installed for my "almost perfect" setup:
for multimedia,
yum list installed \*gstreamer\*
Loaded plugins: keys, presto, refresh-packagekit, verify
Installed Packages
gstreamer.x86_64 0.10.24-1.fc11 @updates
gstreamer-ffmpeg.x86_64 0.10.8-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-free-updates
gstreamer-plugins-bad.x86_64 0.10.13-6.fc11 @rpmfusion-free-updates
gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras.x86_64 0.10.13-6.fc11 @rpmfusion-free-updates
gstreamer-plugins-base.x86_64 0.10.23-3.fc11 @updates
gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux.x86_64 0.10.15-6.fc11 installed
gstreamer-plugins-good.x86_64 0.10.15-4.fc11 @updates
gstreamer-plugins-schroedinger.x86_64 1.0.7-1.fc11 @updates
gstreamer-plugins-ugly.x86_64 0.10.12-2.fc11 @rpmfusion-free-updates
gstreamer-python.x86_64 0.10.16-1.fc11 @updates
gstreamer-tools.x86_64 0.10.24-1.fc11 @updates
phonon-backend-gstreamer.x86_64 4.3.1-6.fc11 @updates
totem-gstreamer.x86_64 2.26.3-1.fc11 @updates
yum list installed \*player\*
Loaded plugins: keys, presto, refresh-packagekit, verify
Installed Packages
gecko-mediaplayer.x86_64 0.9.6-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-free-updates
gnome-mplayer.x86_64 0.9.6-2.fc11 @rpmfusion-free-updates
gnome-mplayer-common.x86_64 0.9.6-2.fc11 @rpmfusion-free-updates
mplayer.x86_64 1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11 @rpmfusion-free
mplayer-doc.x86_64 1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11 @rpmfusion-free
yum list installed \*dirac\*
Loaded plugins: keys, presto, refresh-packagekit, verify
Installed Packages
dirac.x86_64 1.0.2-2.fc11 @fedora
dirac-libs.x86_64 1.0.2-2.fc11 @fedora
As for flash, the only thing I have is the 64 bit plugin and it has
never failed on me.
lt /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
total 9.6M
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 2009-06-04 16:42 libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 86K 2009-06-05 12:09 gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 86K 2009-06-05 12:09 gecko-mediaplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 86K 2009-06-05 12:09 gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 86K 2009-06-05 12:09 gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 86K 2009-06-05 12:09 gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 6.6K 2009-07-10 06:57 librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 9.2M 2009-08-01 17:27 libflashplayer.so
Hopefully I haven't come on too strong, but I am sick and tired of all
the ranting in the recent months and hope that this will help someone
get started towards a "perfect" setup on Fedora.
PS: Even pulseaudio works here, it has worked almost flawlessly since
F10. (don't ask me how tho)
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
