Problems with flash (swf) player and uTube

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 16:59 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Mauriat wrote: 
> > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan 
> > <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > > On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 12:56 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: 
> > >> Antonio M wrote: 
> > >> | Daniel B. Thurman wrote: 
> > >> | > 
> > >> | > I cannot seem to get the player to work 
> > >> | > in Firefox.  Please advise? 
> > >> | > 
> > >> | > Thanks- 
> > >> | > Dan 
> > >> | > 
> > >> | what is the reply of about;plugins in Firefox??? 
> > >> 
> > >> Firefox about:plugins reports "everything" is installed, 
> > >> except for mozplugger claiming that it was not even 
> > >> configured.  I yum removed this, tried again - no 
> > >> dice.  But further testing reveal that MOST SWF files 
> > >> worked - just that some do not.  Different versions 
> > >> of SWF are not compatable? 
> > > 
> > > You don't say which Flash player you are using. If it's the Adobe
> > one, 
> > > it should work for all sites. If it's gnash or swfdec then some
> > things 
> > > won't work. 
> > 
> > I believe he did in the output: 
> > "Starting process: /usr/bin/gtk-gnash" 
> > 
> 
> Hmm...  so should I fix this?  If so, how please?

If you don't mind a non-free Flash player, install the Adobe one. Go to
www.adobe.com and follow the trail to the download page. Download the
Linux rpm version and install:

yum remove gnash
yum localinstall <downloaded flash-plugin rpm file>

Also, make sure you have libflashsupport. If your system is 64-bit
you'll need *both* libflashsupport.i386 and libflashsupport.x86_64.

You may want to install the Adobe repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d. That
way the Flash plugin will stay up to date.

poc