RHEL 4.5 x86_64 w/32bit Firfox & Adobe Flash

rkmason · 07-16-2007, 08:05 AM

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?

Lenard · 07-16-2007, 08:22 PM

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;

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/proje...per/#downloads

rkmason · 07-17-2007, 11:20 AM

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.

Lenard · 07-17-2007, 08:01 PM

Yes you can, please check: rpm -qa 'gtk2*'

You should see something like:
gtk2-2.4.13-22
gtk2-engines-2.2.0-7.el4

rkmason · 07-18-2007, 09:09 AM

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.

Lenard · 07-21-2007, 11:50 AM

Why bother with the building process, the site has rpm packages available direct links below:

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/proje...4-1.x86_64.rpm
http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/proje...4-1.x86_64.rpm

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rkmason · 07-22-2007, 09:22 AM

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

Lenard · 07-22-2007, 09:41 AM

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)

As proof;

$ rpm -qa --qf="%{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}\n" firefox
firefox-2.0.0.5-1.fc7.x86_64

Code:

Shockwave Flash

    File name: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

And which ISP web page are you referring too????

rkmason · 07-23-2007, 08:53 AM

FYI, this is my ISP URL:

http://www.rr.com/flash/index.cfm

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.

Lenard · 07-23-2007, 09:59 AM

Works just fine, I'm watching the CNN Elections in Turkey video as I type this reply, the Plane crash in New Jersey video also plays just fine also.

Now I am using the 32-bit versions of mplayer (with all the codecs) and mplayerplug-in rpm packages with firefox2.

rkmason · 07-23-2007, 07:38 PM

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

Lenard · 07-24-2007, 05:10 AM

Here is what I have installed;

$ rpm -qa --qf="%{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}\n" firefox 'mplayer*' 'nspluginwrapper*' | sort
firefox-2.0.0.5-1.fc7.x86_64
mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386
mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386
mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386
mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf.noarch
mplayerplug-in-3.40-1.el5.rf.i386
mplayer-skins-1.8-1.nodist.rf.noarch
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.4-1.x86_64
nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.4-1.x86_64

rkmason · 07-29-2007, 11:41 AM

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.

I don't know where to look now.