New flashplayer for npapi!
 

I just looked on the Adobe site, and there is a new flashplayer for Firefox (npapi), version 24.0.0.186.

How soon can we see an updated SlackBuild script for it?:cool:

Packages for the plugin are in my repository at least. http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adob...th-version-24/

haven't had time to try this new flash package out yet, but I'm wondering if we need to install hal or lib-halflash to play protected content with firefox?

Thanks a lot Eric. I also tried the SlackBuilds.org package. It works well.

I want to say: Finally. Adobe finally released a major update for Linux, after 4 years of Flash version 11.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/31164...years-ago.html

I wish Adobe will continue giving us the updates in line with the Windows versions. This will encourage more people to use Linux.

Bumping this question. Does anyone know the answer?

According to the link below DRM is not a supported feature.

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2....7MzyDbV2.dpbs

I did some research and found this article. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but will over the next week.

https://linuxconfig.org/play-netflix...x-with-firefox

Oh, it works, Firefox can play Netflix videos now and it does not require Flash for that. I only had to enable DRM playback and install a UA switcher and set the User Agent to Chrome 55 for Linux x86_64 (copied the UA string "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.75 Safari/537.36" from my Chromium browser).

It is kind of a shame IMO that Netflix does not provide a more neutral way to view its contents... I guess Chrome is the only version on Linux officially supported. I do suppose that its possible that this is a step in the right direction, but it certainly rubs me the wrong way. I, however, digress.

Last year Chrome for Linux would not be accepted by Netflix and you would have to spoofe the UA to be something MS Windows. So there is progress.
I assume that Netflix only allows browsers that have an official greenlight from Google (who own the DRM plugin technology used, Widevine DCM).

Is it just me, but on two separate 14.2 boxes, the new flash player doesn't work.
The plugin is present in Firefox, when I go to a site with flash I get the play bar at the bottom, but there is no output.

This has also happened to me on *some* sites, but not all. Unfortunately I didn't think to write down which ones it happened on, it's just something I usually expect here and there because Adobe doesn't support Linux as it should.

One of those sites is view.yahoo.com? I've been trying to continue to watch a show "Eli Stone", but it quits after the abc splash and gives me a blank screen with the flash controls on bottom. If I move the pointer over the video timeline it shows thumbnails of the video but it never starts to play! It seems to be a DRM or CDM issue. But starting from a command line nothing is thrown out except Vector Smash protection enabled. I've started a thread under Virtualization because I also can't get WINE to properly install Firefox with the common plugins and Flash by itself won't play the code either. Any suggestions?

Funny thing is that Chromium with Agent Switcher set to Firefox Windows, Flash, and DRM content allowed is working for view.yahoo.com. So clearly there is something with Flash NPAPI that isn't working, since Flash PPAPI is working. How do I trouble shoot this? If I try the old Adobe DRM test, it hangs when downloading the license, which never completes. Is it a global setting to allow storage or something weird like that? BTW it is not the global settings for storage, I checked and it's allowing third parties to store data. I also verified Widevine by Google set to Activated. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Identical problem here!
Trying to play TV-Everywhere provided by my ISP
John