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berbae

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Registered: 2007-02-12

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[SOLVED] Looking for a working Firefox and Flash player in Wine

Presently I have :
firefox 27.0.1
Shockwave Flash 12.0.0.70
in wine 1.7.14

That doesn't work (black screens and firefox freezes) when trying to play something using flash player.

Has someone a working firefox + flash player in wine?
Can I know the winning combination of versions please?
And how these were installed?
Thanks.

Last edited by berbae (2014-03-14 15:40:57)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Looking for a working Firefox and Flash player in Wine

Why do you need to run firefox in wine?

berbae

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Re: [SOLVED] Looking for a working Firefox and Flash player in Wine

I want to play Replay TV streams at a site which uses DRM protected videos.
That requires the Windows Flash player; Chromium Pepper flash for Linux is not enough.

So has someone a working combination of Firefox + Flash player under Wine?

I have no other choice than Wine; I have not a Windows system at hand and I don't want to use a virtualbox approach.

Or has Chrome for Windows the Flash player with DRM allowed video playing?

That seems to work only in Windows system.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Looking for a working Firefox and Flash player in Wine

Works fine here. Firefox 27.0.1 downloaded from mozilla.com and flash 12.0.0.70 downloaded from here http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplay … tion3.html, the EXE installer for plugin-based browsers.

Though the Linux version of flash should support all the same DRM stuff the Windows version does. It used to require hal, nowadays there's hal-flash, a stub library containing just enough bits of hal to get the flash DRM stuff working. It's in AUR.

berbae

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Registered: 2007-02-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Looking for a working Firefox and Flash player in Wine

Thank you Gusar for your answer.

I tested the hal-flash AUR package, but it doesn't solve the issue either with firefox+flash plugin or chromium+pepper flash, even after a reboot.

I started all again with the wine approach, but this time I chose to use playonlinux:
it gave me the choice to install firefox 27.0.1, but after that, it forces the installation of the flash plugin 11.9.900.152 and it chose to install all these in wine 1.6.
That works with the DRM protected streaming videos I could not play before, but the quality is pretty bad; so it's not entirely satisfying, but I don't think I could get a better result in this configuration. The streams work, but seem unstable with not good pictures and sound, sadly...

progandy

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Re: [SOLVED] Looking for a working Firefox and Flash player in Wine

You could try a native firefox with pipelight, wine-silverlight and windows flash.

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| alias CUTF='LANG=en_XX.UTF-8@POSIX ' | alias ENGLISH='LANG=C.UTF-8 ' |

berbae

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Registered: 2007-02-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Looking for a working Firefox and Flash player in Wine

I post a follow up to this thread for those who may stumble upon it.
I succeeded to install and run the last Shockwave Flash plugin 12.0.0.77 with last Firefox for Windows 27.0.1.
I installed these inside PlayOnLinux, but by choosing a manual way which permitted me to choose the system wine 1.7.14 environment and the Firefox and Flash plugin versions, which I downloaded directly from Mozilla and Adobe sites (I chose the Windows7 exe installers).

The result for looking DRM protected streaming videos (replay TV in this case) is satisfying enough for me right now.

Thanks Progandy for your suggestions, but presently I chose to stay with PlayOnLinux.
Your solution should give a somewhat equivalent result, because it would use the same Windows Flash plugin; and Pipelight needs the wine-silverlight build as a dependency, so it's not simpler than PlayOnLinux.

I don't know why my first try, just with Wine, outside PlayOnLinux, didn't work; I probably missed something which PlayOnLinux has done...

Last edited by berbae (2014-03-14 16:06:33)