On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:04:15PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > 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. 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 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. > 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 tried installing that with no improvement. > 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. Let me know what other clues you need. Thanks for your help. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bobcatos.com "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12 (NIV) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
