Flashplayer Problem
 

I'm running Slackware 14.1 64-bit, Firefox 31.7.0, flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.457-x86_64-1_SBo.

I need to view videos at the Michigan Lottery Charitable Gaming site at http://www.screencast.com/t/GxU44DyLB6 being one of four videos:
pops up.

What the heck do I look for?

I get the same when using Firefox. But with Slimjet (Chromium based) it does play. I guess it craps out on the version of Flashplayer. Slimjet uses Peperflash eg Flash 17.

It's up to 11.2.202.460 for linux, but it doesn't matter. It's also not working for me. Adobe has screwed linux users as all they're doing is putting out 'security fixes' for any linux flash. It'll just get harder to see certain websites as too many imbeciles out there in internet land figure they need to use flash instead of html5, and it won't stop being so anytime soon. All you can do is e-mail the website and ask them to pull their heads out and get with html5 then sit back and hope for the best.

tronayne,

I'm running Eric's .460 flash package.

The same thing is happening for me.

Since it requires a newer flash than 11.2, your best is probably to grab ruario's script to get the latest chrome, or grab Alien Bob's Chromium package with pepperflash.

You can also try and get freshplayerplugin working, which should allow you to use Chrome's pepperflash in Firefox.

It looks like it might require recompiling mesa with --enable-gles2, and then build liburiparser, libconfig, and ragel.

Good luck.

You could also use Alien Bob's wine-pipelight and pipelight packages to, in turn,
use the latest flash plugin for ms-windows with your Linux browsers.

http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/pipe...#comment-23170

Once the packages are installed, you can type 'pipelight-plugins' at the prompt and it will show you what plug-ins are available and what command to issue to enabled them.

Just fired-up your website using Eric's Chromium, version 43.0, and it works. As I mentioned earlier I have Eric's .460 version of flash.

Edit: I'm running Slackware64-current.

Chrome and all derivatives have peperflash build-in which is the latest flashplayer version. So it doesn't use the .460 one.

works with html5 on firefox 38 from -current
try media.gstreamer.enabled in about:config with gst-plugins-ffmpeg installed

Holy toot, lots of options, lots of fiddlings, lots of downloading and installing and configuring. So many options to chose from and I think I'll try the Chromium as the least painful.

A though did occur to me a little bit earlier (and it didn't hurt too much): fire up VirtualBox, fire up Win7, install Flash Player (I don't have much of anything in Win7, so, yeah, had to install Flash Player).

Did that. It worked. Sat though the new rules and forms and what-all and took the quiz (and passed). More trouble that it's worth, those games and paperwork but they do help with the charitable work, sigh.

So, the actual problem is solved but not the longer-term need (and I don't really want to use Win7 unless there is absolutely nothing else available) and I suspect that Google will be supporting Chrome/Chromium for longer that Adobe will be supporting... anything, it seems in Linux. So, hold my nose and learn how use Chrome.

Thanks to all for the help and advice.

I can see this video:
On Slackware 14.1, firefox 31.7.0 and flashplayer 11.2.202.460

So maybe try the latest flashplayer.

From my research and cwizardone's post, it seems there are multiple options to get a newer version of flash in Firefox, if you wish to continue using that.

One is the freshplayerplugin I linked to earlier, although, that seems to require a lot of work to get support. The other, which cwizardone mentioned is using pipelight, which allows you to run Windows plugins in Linux.

Personally, I think it's just too much work and I use Chrome for much of my web browsing. I also use Chromium for other things, but that browser tends to stay plugin free.

Keep in mind, if you use Chromium/pepperflash, you need to keep both packages up-to-date (although, if using slackpkg+ with Eric's repository added, that is easy), whereas, if you use Chrome, you only need to keep that up-to-date since it includes the latest version of pepperflash. Ruario's script makes this really easy, especially with the --install option. I'm half tempted to set a cron job to run it every so often to update me automatically.

It seems very odd to me that SeaMonkey handles Flash better than Firefox, but it does for me.

FreshPlayer isn't advisable, yet. It's still alpha to beta quality. I'm still screwing around with it from time to time, but honestly, it's really a dead-end at times.

I have a build of Mesa on my repositories specially designed to be for testing purposes with --enable-gles2 . There's also a libdrm build as well as other required libraries (these are required for the experimental package).

If you can get FreshPlayer working, more power to you. I got it working only briefly and half the time, FreshPlayer still crashed the pepper plugin.

Have you tried linking it to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins