[Solved] Adobe Flash installed but videos don't play ?

Darksoul71 · 2012-05-08 06:33:02

After setting my an archbox again I installed LXDE as desktop environment and Firefox as browser.
Since I watch a lot of videos on Youtube and other sites I also installed the Adobe Flash plugin.

Unfortunately something seems to be wrong:
Whenever I click on the play button inside the video it turn black and nothing happens.

There is no error message or something like that. I really have no clue what happens.
Adobe Flash is installed fine from what I can tell. It is visible inside the Firefox plugins.

Any ideas what my cause this behaviour ?

I am currently really out off ideas.

Thanks,
D$

Last edited by Darksoul71 (2012-05-08 06:59:36)

Gusar · 2012-05-08 06:54:58

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1093757

Darksoul71 · 2012-05-08 06:58:55

@Gusar:
Thanks a lot for pointing out !
So my old "legacy" CPU is the issue. So I am stucked to gnash.

Big FY to Adobe for this one... :-/
I begin to see that the points against propritary, closed-source software are very valid !

It's a shame that Gnash and the other Flash-replacement only work so-la-la. :-(

Last edited by Darksoul71 (2012-05-08 07:12:16)

Gusar · 2012-05-08 07:16:07

Flash 10.3 is still maintained, the latest version (10.3.183.19) has all vulnerabilities fixed, you can get it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplay … tion3.html

Darksoul71 · 2012-05-08 07:19:06

Ok, this might be an option. At least with somewhat acceptable since I do not visit questionable sites anyway. May be I run Firefox in Sandfox.

Edit: yes, Flash 10 works fine again. Hopefully Adobe will add compatibility for CPUs without SSE2 then but I doubt it based on the behaviour of them in regard to Flash support for Linux.

Edit 2: I added an entry to the wiki highlightning the issue:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … leshooting

Not to sound too picky but it would have be nice from the folks over at the other thread linked here if they highlighted the issue in the wiki. At least this is what I always do when running into issues with arch. This is how a wiki works...at least I think so

Last edited by Darksoul71 (2012-05-08 08:50:26)

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[Solved] Adobe Flash installed but videos don't play ?

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