Re: F14 youtube support?

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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Chris Jones <chrisjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 10:34 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
>> On 2010-09-01, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is there any possibility to use Youtube in Fedora 14? First I tried to
>> > install Adobe Flash 10.1. I tried to copy flashlib to various dirs
>> > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins,
>> > ~/.mozilla/plugins, but about:plugins in Firefox doesn't show me any
>> > informationa about flash support.
>> Adobe Flash Player is not produced for x86_64 architecture by vendor.
>> (It used to be, however it containted serious security flaws). To use
>> it by 64b Firefox, you need to install a wrapper that converts 64b NPAPI
>> to 32b. However according my experience it causes crashes (tested on
>> Gentoo).
>>
>> So IMHO there is no way how to use Adobe Flash Player on x86_64.
>>
>> > I installed gnash package and Firefox showed information about Adobe
>> > plugin - I tried to run some videos, but the only thing I saw was
>> > a fancy error message about gnash.
>>
>> Which error message, which version?
>>
>> I have no problem when Gnash 0.8.8 is compiled against ffmpeg (Gentoo again,
>> sorry).
>>
>> I tried this viedeo <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoNvsiBTQDE> on
>> Fedora 13. It's compiled against Gstreamer, and it complainead about
>> missng AAC decoder. I installed gstreamer-plugins-bad
>> (http://www.gstreamer.net/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-bad-plugins/html/gst-plugins-bad-plugins-plugin-faad.html) and the sound in
>> Gnash started to work. Video worked already becuase of other gstreamer
>> plugin probably.
>>
>> However these gstreamer plugins are not in offical Fedora repository
>> because of regional patents. They come from rpmfusion-free repositories.
>>
>> -- Petr
>>
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> Is this problem with flash not working on x86_64 architecture limited to
> Fedora or what?

When setup correctly it works just fine.

> I use Ubuntu 10.04 64bit as my primary operating system and have 32bit
> Flash installed with wrapper inside Firefox 4.0 beta 4 and have no
> problems.
> There I ask the question, what is wrong with doing the same thing in
> Fedora?

It works fine here.
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