On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 17:53 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:23 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> I've got a few Fedora9(x86) systems with Adobe's flash plugin > >> installed. For most websites, the flash plugin works just fine > >> (Youtube, etc). However, there are some websites where flash doesn't > >> work at all. When I end up at a website where its not working, I have > >> a big white square where the flash content should be, or sometimes, I > >> get a nasty error that I need to install Flash. > >> > >> >From what I can tell, this appears to be due to some mime-type > >> handling retardation in Firefox3. If I go to Edit -> Preferences -> > >> Applications, there are two different entries for Flash, "Flash video" > >> and "SWF file". The "SWF file" entry is auto-populated with "Use > >> Shockwave Flash", however the "Flash video" entry keeps defaulting to > >> "Movie player (default)", and Shockwave Flash isn't even a choice in > >> the menu. > >> > >> I've (re)installed Firefox-2.x for debugging purposes, and the same > >> exact flash plugin works perfectly there, so this has to be something > >> specific to firefox 3. > >> > >> Anyone run across this? > > ---- > > that seems fairly normal though you might want to install totem-xine > > package and then you can register xine as backend with 'totem-backend -b > > xine' command. > > > > (my setup registers totem-web-browser-plugin as the player for the mime > > type video/flv) > > This is normal behavior? It seems completely broken to me. I > definitely shouldn't have to install xine to get flash to work, when > i've already got the flash plugin installed (and it works in firefox2 > without any issues). ---- what I meant by normal was the way it registers the applications to use for the various mime types but I'm trying to relate that things seemed to work better after I installed totem-xine and selected xine for the backend. I have seen others suggest removing the gecko-mediaplayer-plugin but I haven't bothered to remove it myself. you might try launching firefox from command line to see if it spits any errors into the console. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
