Re: Non-YouTube videos don't work in F15

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Bob McClure Jr writes:

A few weeks ago I upgraded from Fedora 13 to Fedora 15.  This was an
on-line upgrade (using preupgrade) not a fresh install.  Not
surprisingly, several things are broken.  This is an AMD Athlon 64
machine with 2GB of RAM.

Initially, I couldn't get any videos to work, but a web search led me
to a solution for YouTube videos so they are fine, but non-YouTube
videos come up with white or black screen and no controls, nada.  This
is while running Firefox.

What do I need to look for?

That depends exactly what you did. I presume you are referring to the x86-64 beta flash plugin. For the i386 plugin, its yum repo has worked for ages, obediently updating the plugin every time a new flash plugin got pushed out. So, you must be referring to the 64 bit plugin.

The beta release worked fine for me for a few months now – both youtube and other videos. Your problem may not necessarily be the flash plugin itself, but your audio and/or video. The flash plugin doesn't like something else grabbing the audio, on my box. Or it grabs the audio itself, and keeps it for a while. If new mail lands in my gmail box, and the timing is right, both the flash plugin and the gmail manager plugin will want the audio, and lock up Firefox, tight. Have to kill it. That's about the only glitch I have to deal with, but otherwise it's WORKSFORME.

I don't believe there's a yum repo for x86-64 beta flash plugin, so I roll my own rpm. Funny timing – I just checked and there's a new beta x86-64 plugin released today on http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html

I just grabbed it, and fed it to my spec file to crank out an rpm, installed it, and a cursory check seems to indicate that it's working. Youtube clips are fine, news clips worked.

So, without knowing exactly what you did, there's not much to go on.

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