[gentoo-amd64] java plugin amd64

[gentoo-amd64] java plugin amd64

[Mark Haney]

I've had a devil of a time figuring out how to get a javaplugin working 
under the 64-bit version of Firefox.  The docs on the Gentoo site aren't 
real explicit for 64-bit versions.  Can someone point me to one or give 
me a heads up on how to make it work.

Because, I mean, I really need my streaming video of Mike and Mike in 
the morning. :)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] java plugin amd64

[Beso]

2008/11/6 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>:
> I've had a devil of a time figuring out how to get a javaplugin working
> under the 64-bit version of Firefox.  The docs on the Gentoo site aren't
> real explicit for 64-bit versions.  Can someone point me to one or give me a
> heads up on how to make it work.
>
> Because, I mean, I really need my streaming video of Mike and Mike in the
> morning. :)
>

java nsplugin 64bit -> icedtea6 from java-overlay. you still need to
have the original jdk since the gcj cannot build it now. see flameeyes
webblog for info on how icedtea still fails.
as for flash there isn't still any real good firefox plugin. gnash
doesn't play a thing.

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: java plugin amd64

[Duncan]

Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> posted
d257c3560811061155q6702cf7au78247cf780ea9428@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:55:40 +0000:

> java nsplugin 64bit -> icedtea6 from java-overlay. you still need to
> have the original jdk since the gcj cannot build it now. see flameeyes
> webblog for info on how icedtea still fails. as for flash there isn't
> still any real good firefox plugin. gnash doesn't play a thing.

A second on the flameeyes' blog recommendation.

As for flash, I've had some luck with the swfdec package (perhaps still 
in the sunrise overlay?), but it seemed /very/ touchy on build-order.  
Between firefox, swfdec, swfdec-mozilla, and perhaps a couple other 
packages, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, depending on whether 
the merge order happened to be correct or not.  Unfortunately, revdep-
rebuild didn't help either; it said everything was fine.

So eventually I gave up on swfdec, in particular because my normal 
browser is konqueror anyway tho I have iceweasel/firefox merged, and 
swfdec didn't seem to work with konqueror at all.  Now, I just use kde-
misc/youtube-servicemenu to download the file (as mp4) and play with 
kaffeine, and don't worry about flash anywhere else.  Occasionally the 
service menu gets the URL wrong somehow, but it hasn't been a big deal 
for me.  Another alternative, for firefox, is the DownloadHelper 
extension.  It works more broadly than just youtube, but is nagware, and 
since I don't use iceweasel/firefox regularly anyway, I prefer the 
konqueror-servicemenu solution for most of my youtube watching.

But as I said, swfdec seemed to work way better than gnash for me, but it 
was very dependent on the right merge order for various packages, and I 
never resolved the magic packages and order necessary to remerge in to 
get it to work reliably when it broke.  It worked at least on youtube 
100%, however, when it worked.  But when it didn't, I didn't know what to 
do to fix it, except that eventually, it would start working again, when 
the order was again correct.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: java plugin amd64

[Andy Wang]

Just as an FYI.
Java 6 Update 12 from Sun will have a 64-bit plugin.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695