don't like proprietary flash? Then try swfdec!

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:27 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> To install swfdec you need to enable livna repository:
> http://fedoraguide.info/index.php/Fedora8#Livna
> 
> then do this:
> 
> yum remove flash-plugin (if needed)
> yum install swfdec-mozilla gstreamer-ffmpeg -y
> 
> I found these two bugs emmediatly:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445828
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445827

For some reason I had both swfdec and flash-plugin installed, i.e. they
didn't report conflicts with each other when I installed them, however I
couldn't watch any flash video in Firefox. I'd click on the video window
and it would simply disappear. Checking about:plugins showed
flash-plugin but not swfdec (maybe it's not a plugin, I don't know). In
any case, the problem went away when in a moment of inspiration I
removed swfdec.

Note that 1) the two flash systems apparently cannot co-exist, but no
conflict is reported, and b) there was no obvious way I would have found
out that swfdec had anything to do with my problem.

BTW, this is F9pre (rawhide) and FF3beta5.

poc