Flash in FC5

mickeyboa · 08-11-2006, 11:28 AM

I got on Foxnews and watching news videos (first time) and the following days when trying to watch news videos in Firefox/flashplayer
I can't get the videos to display, but I can get audio, very clear.
I also tried the same thing in Suse10.1 and got the identical same results as in Fedora5.
Has anyone experience this problem? Has FoxNews possibly slip me a cookie to prevent me from seeing the videos?

Jim

scorpioofthewoods · 08-11-2006, 08:20 PM

I just tried and I can't watch foxnews.com videos either. It is just a black screen but I get audio, just like you. I am not sure why.

jlo_sandog · 08-12-2006, 12:02 AM

So you're one of those people... In any case, it seems that you will need flash8 or 9 capability. Flash9 for linux will probably be out next year. I installed wine and the windos version of firefox, and even foxnews will work.

mickeyboa · 08-12-2006, 09:06 AM

Foxnew states in their help menu that all that is required is Flasplayer-6.
So there has got to be something other.

Jim

watsup · 08-12-2006, 10:11 AM

i have problem installing flash on my fedora 5.
1) Clicked on the install plugin button on firefox and it indicated the installation completed successfully. Firefox still prompt missing plugin.

2) Downloaded the flash installer and installed it by following the instructions. It doesnt work also.

3)Copied the 2 files libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt to both /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and /usr/lib/mozilla/components. Still doesnt work.

Can anyone help? i do not know wat else i can do

mickeyboa · 08-12-2006, 10:36 AM

Is your computer a i386 (32bit) or x86_64 (64bit) ??

Jim

jlo_sandog · 08-12-2006, 01:35 PM

mickeyboa, I know this use to work in the past, but just like you I only hear sound, which usually means that they changed something on their side. I still recommend you install FF win32 version. It works very well.

watsup, your question has been asked a lot recently. Use the search feature to find all the previous post.

paul85 · 08-12-2006, 01:55 PM

This posting helped me resolve my flash problem:

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

bizarre... i was there last night. i found a doc online which gave a yum repo which installed just fine, know exactly what you mean though.

Code:

/etc/yum.repos.d/macromedia-i386.repo:
[macromedia]
name=Macromedia for i386 Linux
baseurl=http://macromedia.rediris.es/rpm/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY

Hope this helps

mickeyboa · 08-13-2006, 10:11 AM

I tried that site baseurl=http://macromedia.rediris.es/rpm/
Try it you will see, yes I did remove "baseurl=" before running
in the browser.
but the path to /rpm/ is Forbidden using yum.
This is the site that I downloaded flash.rpm from initially and installed, but didn't work.

Jim

paul85 · 08-13-2006, 11:59 AM

I had no problen using yum to install flash.
Check this link http://macromedia.mplug.org/site_uh.html

mickeyboa · 08-13-2006, 05:16 PM

yes I can get to the same site, but try this site.

http://macromedia.rediris.es/rpm/

And you will see why yum can't install Flashplayer.

Jim

paul85 · 08-13-2006, 07:30 PM

Did you try to install flash with yum using the info in the apt-get / yum link. this worked for me without any problems. have you tried running "yum install" from terminal?