Flashplayer for epiphany?
Posted by dzhafner on Mon 1 Sep 2008 at 12:23
I'm currently running Debian lenny and would like to be able to watch and listen to flash clips online (youtube?) with epiphany - but I'm having problems.
I'm trying to use epiphany and have used aptitude to install both both sun-java6-plugin and flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound.
Would it be easier to try and use iceweasel for viewing flash? If there is no flashplayer package, how difficult would it be to make one, and where would I need to start looking for guides.
My apologies if these questions are senseless, I've just started using GNU/Linux and am stumbling around in the dark.
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You need to give way more details for people to help you I'm afraid.
The most obvious would be the platform you're installing upon. If you're running i386 you should find most things work properly, if you're on a 64-bit system then there are still some issues, but mostly they are simple to fix.
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I used aptitude to get swfdec-mozilla and can now see the brief video clip on the webpage. The audio files I am trying to play, however, still don't work. A small link saying 'click here to download plugin'. I clicked on it and the message appears 'no suitable plugins were found: Unkown Plugin (audio/mpeg)'. Also while I am doing this with iceweasel, the terminal displays the following text.
(firefox-bin:3965): GtK-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
In case it helps, the location of the audiofile I'm trying to listen to is http://lacan.com/badiouone.htm.
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when I launch [1] it is played with the totem-plugin-viewer. I think it is audio and not flash.
sudo aptitude install totem-mozilla
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://lacan.com/badiouone.htm
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The free flashclones are sloooooow...
So I have a one bit choice: Crashy browsers or no flash.
Both suxx!
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Or if you just want some videos, try clive: http://home.gna.org/clive/
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deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
If you want to keep with Lenny for the rest of your system, you can set lenny to a higher pin priority in the /etc/apt/preferences file. For example:
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 500
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the free player gnash has improved in the past quite a bit and I am quite satisfied using it.
sudo aptitude install mozilla-plugin-gnash
should get you going.
Thanks,
Paul
PS: In the cases it does not work, clive is the way to go in my opinion.
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/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# cp -p /root/install_flash_player_10_linux /libflashplayer.so .
list of my mozilla/plugins dir
root@xxxxxx:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# ll
total 11388
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 avr 24 14:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 fév 26 01:57 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 fév 24 11:05 flash-mozilla.ko -> /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 fred fred 10022452 nov 19 00:53 libflashplayer.so
@+++
Fred
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