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I'm running the RHEL 4.5 x86_64 version. My ISP homepage utilizes a lot of Flash content so I'm running 32bit Firefox with the Adobe Flash plugin (no 64bit Flash plugin yet). Website video works fine, but I get no audio. My other local audio applications work fine, so the problem is specific to website audio. Any ideas anyone?
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
Posts: 4,790
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No problems with flash plus audio using the 64-bit version of firefox with the added nspluginwrapper packages, get both the 'Player' and 'Viewer' rpm packages from the link below;
Looks like these Flash support plugins for 64bit Firefox requires GTK+ 2.0 but my RHEL 4.5 uses GTK+ 1.2 with no RHEL 4.5 upgrade available. I'm not sure I can do this update.
Thanks yes, I see that I have GTK2 2.4 already. I thought I did not have this because when I ran configure for the nspluginwrapper package I got an immediate response that it could not find my GTK2 2.0 libraries. Must be in an unexpected location. I'm still pretty new with Linux compile processes so I get stumped easily by these problems.
Yeah, I found the RPMs and installed them. I thought that would fix it but the README indicates that this utility does not work with Flash version 9 which my ISP is requiring for their webpage to work. So it looks like I'm stuck using 32bit Firefox w/no Flash sound until Adobe pulls their thumbs out and produces a 64bit compatible Flash version. Thanks for the help
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
Posts: 4,790
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That's not true.............flash9 works just fine.
The web page for nspluginwrapper states in part;
Code:
Bear in mind this is BETA software. The following plugins work reasonnably well:
* Acrobat Reader (5.0.9, 7.0.1)
* DejaVu Libre (3.5.14)
* Flash Player (7.0, 9.0)
This is a general start page that requires you to specify a particular location. For my particular homepage select "Texas" and then "Austin Time Warner Cable" Pick any of the news items on the homepage that includes a video clip reference to see if the audio works.
I'll go back and retry 64 bit Firefox with nspluginwrapper. First time I tried it my ISP kept complaining that I needed to install Flash 9 even though it was already installed.
OK, now I know it can work. Now I'm really baffled what the problem could be. I'll concentrate on getting 64bit Firefox and nspluginwrapper working. Thanks
Well, I did a total reinstall of RHEL 4.5 x86_64 WS since I had tried so many things previously. I installed the plugin wrapper utility and Adobe Flash 9.0, and now I have Flash video working under 64bit Firefox, but without any audio. The audio plugin is the Helix player which the plugin wrapper also recognized and installed.
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