[gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection

[gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection

[Matthew R. Lee]

I'm an e-season ticket holder at liverpoolfc.tv where I can listen to live 
commentary of all the games and watch video highlights.  Last season 
everything worked fine (or more or less fine),  this season they have changed 
the econsole to work with flash.  I have the flashplugin installed and it 
works. However, when I launch the econsole it says it needs flashplugin 
installed (it can't detect it) as a consequence I can't access the media 
streams (except through the technical support page).  I've complained to the 
technical support but got the usual answer "we do not fully support or test 
on Linux systems"  Before I write back an tell them what I think about that, 
I would like to be able to tell them how to fix it.  
So after that preamble, the question is, how does their system detect the 
presence of the flashplugin on my browser.  Is it simply that they need the 
correct file name (libflashplayer.so) in their config or is it more 
complicated than that?
Thanks
Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> I would like to be able to tell them how to fix it.  
> So after that preamble, the question is, how does their system detect the 
> presence of the flashplugin on my browser.  Is it simply that they need the 
> correct file name (libflashplayer.so) in their config or is it more 
> complicated than that?

Hi!

I've been having detection problems, too. For example, there was some flash video site that said It
couldn't detect flash, but it allowed me to go on, skipping the detection, and all worked. So, I
guess this has to do with some javascript.

There is one (adult, yes!!) site (do not follow the link if you feel uneasy about adult content),
where this happened (yes, to me):

www.pornotube.com

It has detection, and skip-detection link, too. SO, try to navigate to it and see what happens.
Check out the pages source (frames, etc).

Now, MY problem with detection was solved by unmasking and keywording net-www/netscape-flash, and by
manually removing the older (Firefox-and-not-emerge-installed) flash plugin.

Try that.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection

[Richard Fish]

On 10/28/06, Matthew R. Lee <gentoo@matthewlee.org> wrote:
> I'm an e-season ticket holder at liverpoolfc.tv where I can listen to live
> commentary of all the games and watch video highlights.  Last season
> everything worked fine (or more or less fine),  this season they have changed
> the econsole to work with flash.  I have the flashplugin installed and it
> works. However, when I launch the econsole it says it needs flashplugin
> installed (it can't detect it) as a consequence I can't access the media
> streams (except through the technical support page).  I've complained to the
> technical support but got the usual answer "we do not fully support or test
> on Linux systems"  Before I write back an tell them what I think about that,
> I would like to be able to tell them how to fix it.

It isn't something they can fix on their end.

You didn't mention what browser you are using, but assuming it is
firefox does the flash plugin show up when you go to "about:plugins"?
If not, then somehow it is not installed or not installed correctly.

Another possibility is that they are using flash version 8 or higher,
which had no linux version until a few weeks ago.  In this case you
may try unmask the beta of netscape-flash-9.x with "echo
'=net-www/netscape-flash-9*' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask".  I
haven't tried it, but have seen reports of memory leaks and browser
crashes that are attributable to this.

Another option for flash8 compatibility is to install the windows
version of firefox and flash under wine.  I have done this with some
success.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 21:46, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> It isn't something they can fix on their end.
>
> You didn't mention what browser you are using, but assuming it is
> firefox does the flash plugin show up when you go to "about:plugins"?
> If not, then somehow it is not installed or not installed correctly.
>
> Another possibility is that they are using flash version 8 or higher,
> which had no linux version until a few weeks ago.  In this case you
> may try unmask the beta of netscape-flash-9.x with "echo
> '=net-www/netscape-flash-9*' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask".  I
> haven't tried it, but have seen reports of memory leaks and browser
> crashes that are attributable to this.
>
> Another option for flash8 compatibility is to install the windows
> version of firefox and flash under wine.  I have done this with some
> success.
>
> -Richard
I'm using Konqueror (3.5.2) with netscape-flash (7.0.68)
It's installed properly and working
The liverpool site clearly doesn't detect its presence or doesn't like it. In 
the econsole If I click on "get adobe flash plugin" adobe offers me the the 
same version as the one I have.
I guess I'll have to give flash 9 a go

Matt
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Dr. Matthew R. Lee
CASEB & ECIM
Departamento de Ecologia,
P. Universidad Catolica de Chile,
Alameda 340, Santiago.
CP 6513677
CHILE

matt@matthewlee.org
mlee@bio.puc.cl

URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org
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