Adobe Flash Player Plugin
 

I have Slackware 14, 32-bit, with KDE environment.
I am not much of an expert with Linux...

I just installed flash-player-plugin (11.2.202.238) from the SlackBuilds repository.

Everything seems to have gone ok, but when I launch Firefox and type about:plugin, Flash Player is not mentioned and I cannot get sites that use this plug-in to work properly.

I don't thing that there are dependencies that I need to install, so what exactly do I need to do to get Flash Player to work?

Check to make sure /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins has a file called "libflashplayer.so"

Don't forget to check to make sure that you installed flash for the correct architecture. You say you're using 32-bit, but did you download the 32-bit tarball, or the 64-bit one for the script to use?

did you try to install it manual ? i means
1. download flash here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect
2. tar xzvf install_flash_player_11_linux_*.tar
2. mkdir /home/user/.mozilla/plugins
3. then cp file libflashplayer.so to /home/usr/.mozilla/plugins

done :)

plugin
 

Hi,
It's better install manual from www.adobe.com. Download flash 32 bits as explained above && enjoy!

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Even after it is properly installed, that doesn't mean it will work as it should.

First it was the blue skin, reversed color problem and now the plug-in crashes almost every time I try and use it. Sometimes the video won't play or sometimes it will start, but crash shortly afterwards. It has gotten to the point that if the video is one I really want to watch, I boot to Xp first so I know I can watch it without interruption.

I did have the blue skin problem, but that only affects nVidia chips (and it is fixed [well, worked around] with new libvdpau and/or new nVidia drivers). I haven't had Flash crash anything for at least a year or two. Perhaps you should take a look at your browser settings/profile and/or your system itself...

For the record, I just use Alien Bob's flashplayer-plugin package, which includes the flash-player-properties configuration utility (not that it's very useful). It looks like Adobe just released a new version a couple of days ago and Alien Bob's package isn't updated yet, but he's usually pretty good at packaging in a timely manner.

Well, no it is not fixed in the new nVidia drivers, and, yes, I've check my browser sitting/profile, but the plug-in crashes with Opera, Firefox and Konqueror.


I also use Alien Bob's package and have also tried Salix's package, but the results are the same.

304.51 includes the workaround, assuming you use nVidia's bundled libvdpau (libvdpau.so.304.51). If you use standalone libvdpau then you need to get the latest (0.5), which I haven't tested. If you use SlackBuilds for the nVidia drivers then you will definitely NOT be using the bundled nVidia libvdpau. I can pretty much confirm that the workaround is present and works in 304.51 -- I just upgraded to it yesterday, and I can enable hardware acceleration again and everything looks as it should (whereas, testing just before the upgrade using 304.37, it did not). 64-bit, FYI.

Interesting...I didn't know that nvidia bundled their own version of libvdpau. Does that get installed when using their install script by default? I will have to give it a try as I always have the "inverted colors" flash video problems. I usually have to disable the hardware acceleration to make it work correctly.

I'm using the latest nvidia bundle and it does not solve the problem.

Alien Bob's latest update of the flashplayer-plugin, released yesterday, has taken care of the crashing problem.

Turn off flash hardware acceleration and the blue goes away.

(EDIT: I just turned hardware acceleration back on and there is no blue tint when watching, say, youtube flash videos. Slackware64 14.0. No multilib. Flash version 11.2.202.243)

This was discussed in another thread and here is what finally got rid of the blue (problem for me) without having to turn off hardware acceleration:

The thread is here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...692/page3.html

VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY disables hardware acceleration simply on another layer.

Well, no, export VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1, doesn't not turn off hardware acceleration.

NVIDIA's VdpPresentationQueue supports two methods for displaying surfaces; overlay and blit. The overlay method will be used wherever possible, with the blit method acting as a more general fallback.

The following conditions or system configurations will prevent usage of the overlay path:
[...]
The environment variable VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY is set to a string representation of a non-zero integer.

http://de.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...ausupport.html

Well, that may be, but I only know what I see and the nvidia utility says hardware acceleration is enabled.
BTW, the patch(es) don't always work. Right in the middle of watching a youTube video last night, the skins colors suddenly became "alien blue," red became blue, blue became red, etc.

It has nothing to do with the Nvidia setting for hardware accelerated video playback. To get rid of the blue skin bug, you need to disable hardware acceleration in the flash player. Right-click on the player window and uncheck "use hardware acceleration".

Eric

From what I've read, flashplayer doesnt really support linux as much anymore. Its actually the reason I stopped using firefox, because I could no longer get videos to play reliably and consistently using the flashplayer for slackware 14. Google includes it with chrome, I know its not a perfect solution, but switching to chromium has solved the issue for me and several of my friends.

Which I'm sure is exactly what Google had in mind when they reached their little agreement with Adobe. There is a reason the Justice Department is taking a long look at Google's business practices.

:doh:
Thanks.

I'm not sure if the problem reported by the OP has actually been solved.

I encountered a similar issue during a recent installation of Slackware 14.0 on an "old" computer. I found the solution in this thread in which it's said:

Downloading the latest version 10 of Flash Plugin (10.3.183.23 - http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get...23_archive.zip) and manually installing libflashplayer.so in directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ (as root) solved the issue for me (indeed my old computer does not have sse2 feature).

Just in case, check for any missing dependencies:

Look for any entries like "libnss3.so => not found"

Does this mean that if one is using the Nvidia blob from their site, not SlackBuilds', then one doesn't need to install SB's libvdpau (which is currently at 0.4.1)? Does that go for vdpau-video, too? Under what circumstances should/shouldn't we install them?

Incidentally, I don't have the blue skin issue with the 304.60 driver, with and without hardware acceleration.

You wouldn't need SBo's libvdpau but you would still need vdpau-video if you want acceleration in VLC or anything else that doesn't use libvdpau directly (this does NOT include mplayer or Adobe Flash). For the record, I am now getting Flash crashes with hardware acceleration enabled and have turned it off, making my previous posts moot.

Chromium doesn't come with the built-in flashplayer, only Chrome does. Chromium only has the open-source parts, and therefore normally uses the same adobe plugin as Firefox.

Well fwiw, it does work better in chromium for me than firefox. I haven't tried chrome at all on this machine, and don't really plan to.

I finally solved this problem!

Through trial and error, I have discovered that the most recent Adobe Flash Player version that works on my desktop is v. 11.1.102.63 (released Mar. 5, 2012). Anything more recent than that version does not work!

Could it be that newer flash player versions require more recent hardware to run? (My desktop is 12 years old!) I do not know. Perhaps somebody on this forum knows more details.

I am aware that using an old version of flash player is dangerous. But I am not going to avoid certain sites that require flash player. I will be as careful as possible! :-)

PS 1: I installed libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
PS 2: Older versions of Adobe Flash Player can be downloaded from http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/...-versions.html

Also, take a look at this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...us-4175420481/