[gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds.
I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the complaint my
   flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking Javascript, which
is false).  It's
   at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLRBiEBRAc
I've downloaded the latest player that Adobe offers for linux, but
still get that
   message.
about:plugins reports 3 separate versions of the plugin, and I have no idea
  how to clean that up, since the plugins directory contains only one.

Any clues out there?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Boris Fersing]

2006/12/16, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com>:
> I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds.
> I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the complaint my
>    flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking Javascript, which
> is false).  It's
>    at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLRBiEBRAc
> I've downloaded the latest player that Adobe offers for linux, but
> still get that
>    message.
> about:plugins reports 3 separate versions of the plugin, and I have no idea
>   how to clean that up, since the plugins directory contains only one.
>
> Any clues out there?
Hi,

did you install it manually or did you emerge the latest version of
net-www/netscape-flash ?

This one works for me !

Boris.
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$ ruby -e'puts " .:@BFegiklnorst".unpack("x4ax7aaX6ax5aX15ax4aax6aaX7ax2 \
aX5aX8axaX3ax8aX4ax6aX3aX6ax3ax3aX9ax4ax2aX9axaX6ax3aX2ax4 \
ax3aX4aXaX12ax10aaX7a").join'
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[gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm trying to view a cute youTube video based on "Code Monkey":
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLRBiEBRAc
I get a complaint that either I'm blocking Javascript (false) or else
    I have an old version of FlashPlayer (problematic).
I'm current with stable x86 ebuilds
I went to the indicated page and downloaded Adobe's latest for
   Linux.
On restart, Firefox reports two different Flash plugins installed
   (via about:plugins), both 7.0, but one's r25 and the other's r69.
   The actual /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins directory contains only one.
   I see them registered in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat, but that
      file says don't edit it.
I still get the complaint that I have the wrong plugin.

Any clues?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 12/16/06, Boris Fersing <kernelsensei@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 2006/12/16, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com>:
> > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds.
> > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the complaint my
> >    flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking Javascript, which
> > is false).  It's
> >    at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLRBiEBRAc
> > I've downloaded the latest player that Adobe offers for linux, but
> > still get that
> >    message.
> > about:plugins reports 3 separate versions of the plugin, and I have no idea
> >   how to clean that up, since the plugins directory contains only one.
> >
> > Any clues out there?
> Hi,
>
> did you install it manually or did you emerge the latest version of
> net-www/netscape-flash ?
>
> This one works for me !
>
> Boris.
> >
> >
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> > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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> >
> >
>
>
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> $ ruby -e'puts " .:@BFegiklnorst".unpack("x4ax7aaX6ax5aX15ax4aax6aaX7ax2 \
> aX5aX8axaX3ax8aX4ax6aX3aX6ax3ax3aX9ax4ax2aX9axaX6ax3aX2ax4 \
> ax3aX4aXaX12ax10aaX7a").join'
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>

Manually.  My quick eix for FlashPlayer got nowhere, so I didn't realize
there was such a thing.  I can undo my work and try the emerge.  For now,
assume the problem is fixed.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Peter Wu]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:13:10 -0800, "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote:

> I'm trying to view a cute youTube video based on "Code Monkey":
>    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLRBiEBRAc
> I get a complaint that either I'm blocking Javascript (false) or else
>    I have an old version of FlashPlayer (problematic).
> I'm current with stable x86 ebuilds
> I went to the indicated page and downloaded Adobe's latest for
>   Linux.
> On restart, Firefox reports two different Flash plugins installed
>   (via about:plugins), both 7.0, but one's r25 and the other's r69.
>   The actual /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins directory contains only one.
>   I see them registered in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat, but that
>      file says don't edit it.
> I still get the complaint that I have the wrong plugin.
>
> Any clues?

Try emerging the netscape-flash in portage. It works for me.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Richard Fish]

On 12/16/06, Peter Wu <peterwu@canada.com> wrote:
> > On restart, Firefox reports two different Flash plugins installed
> >   (via about:plugins), both 7.0, but one's r25 and the other's r69.

Version 7 is too old for most youtube videos.  They have moved on to
version 8 (or 9?), for which there is no released player.  There is a
package.masked beta version, which you can merge if you unmask it:

echo "=net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.21.78" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
emerge -u netscape-flash

Note that the beta is 32-bit only, so if you are using an amd64 arch,
you will need to merge the 32-bit mozilla-firefox-bin, and symlink
libflashplayer.so manually:

cd /opt/firefox/plugins
ln -s /usr/lib32/nsbrowser/plugins/

You can then start the 32-bit firefox with /opt/firefox/firefox.

HTH,
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Arnau Bria]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:57:05 -0800
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds.
> I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the
> complaint my flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking
> Javascript, which is false).  It's
>    at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLRBiEBRAc

Here's some code for downloading youtube videos:
------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

$base="http://videodownloader.net/get/?url=";

if ($#ARGV==-1) {
    print "Usage: u2b.pl \"[youtube-url-here]\"\n";
        exit(1);
        }
        $u2burl=$ARGV[0];

        print "Fetching downloading url...\n\n";
        $contents=`curl -s '$base/$u2burl'`;
        $contents=~s/\n//;
        $contents=~/<a href="http:\/\/youtube.com\/get_video\?(.*)">/;
        $contents=substr($1,0,55);
        print "Found: '$contents'\n\n";
        system("wget -c 'http://youtube.com/get_video?$contents'");
        print "\nAnd now...run mplayer!\n";
------------------------------------------------

PS: I don't have the author's name, so sorry if you find this without
any note about you :-)


Also, you could download "Ook? Video Ook!" Firefox's extension.

HTH

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Iain Buchanan]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:51 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:57:05 -0800
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds.
> > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the
> > complaint my flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking
> > Javascript, which is false).  It's
> >    at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLRBiEBRAc
> 
> Here's some code for downloading youtube videos:

or, you could just install the firefox add-on "videodownloader" from
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php and have a little icon in your
status bar which, on a right click, will let you download any mp3,
flash, wmv, avi, etc, etc, on the current web page.

HTH!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

[Korthrun]

On 12/18/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:51 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:57:05 -0800
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >
> > > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds.
> > > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the
> > > complaint my flash Player plugin is obsolete (or I'm blocking
> > > Javascript, which is false).  It's
> > >    at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lLRBiEBRAc
> >
> > Here's some code for downloading youtube videos:
>
> or, you could just install the firefox add-on "videodownloader" from
> http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php and have a little icon in your
> status bar which, on a right click, will let you download any mp3,
> flash, wmv, avi, etc, etc, on the current web page.
>
> HTH!
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> around the Sun.
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SNIP
I've downloaded the latest player that Adobe offers for linux,
/SNIP
Are you talking about the one that firefox directs you to based on the
EMBED tag for the player or the actual latest linux version?
Specificly: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html

I have yet to find any flash that whines about my version or anything
like it since installing that. No problems either.


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