Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and Flash (again...)

[Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>]

On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:53:11 Robin Atwood wrote:

> > Then, in my pride and arrogance, I decided to upgrade my desktop to use
> > KDE 4.2.3. After two days of hacking away, I now have almost all the
> > functionally I had with KDE 3.5.10 (two omissions being amarok and
> > bluetooth). However, every time I visit a site with flash I get a
> > segfault in nspluginviewer after it's loaded libflashplayer.so. Someone
> > mentioned they had this working, I am curious to know how since there are
> > quite a few open tickets for this on k.b.o.
>
> On amd64 I have konqueror-4.2.3, nplugins-4.2.3, adobe-flash-10.0.22.87
> with USE="32bit multilib" (I have a 32 bit Firefox for a Java based vpn -
> not relevant to flash), and no nspluginwrapper. It all JustWorks(tm) out
> the box, and I don't need to fiddle with embedded mplayer stuff either. I
> used to have constant crashes in konqueror with flash which one day just
> went away after I rebuilt all of KDE with USE="-prefix". IIRC it was an
> upgrade from 4.2.2 as well. WHat console output do you get if you launch
> the browser from the command line and view flash?

I have everything at 4.2.3 like you. I rebuilt adobeflash as 32bit but I still 
get the same error:

konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::lookup: Looking up plugin for mimetype  
"application/x-shockwave-flash" :  "/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so"
nspluginviewer(20187) NSPluginClass::initialize: results in  0
nspluginviewer(20187) NSPluginInstance::NPGetValue: results in  0
konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::newInstance: <- NSPluginLoader::NewInstance =  
0x12b4540
konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::pluginResized: 640 385
konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::resizeEvent: 640 385 false true false
konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::showEvent: 640 385 true true false
konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::instance: NSPluginLoader::instance ->  3
nspluginviewer(20187) PluginHostXEmbed::setupWindow: 102768327 640 385
KCrash: Application 'nspluginviewer' crashing...
sock_file=/home/robin/.kde4.2/socket-opal/kdeinit4__0
konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::processTerminated: Viewer process  terminated
konqueror(20163) NSPluginLoader::release: NSPluginLoader::release ->  2
konqueror(20163) NSPluginInstance::~NSPluginInstance: -> 
NSPluginInstance::~NSPluginInstance


And since you mention it, the kmplayerpart no longer plays embedded stream 
video, as on http://www.apple.com/trailers/.
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