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gvenkat1994

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Registered: 2014-04-13

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Chromium flash content not displaying

I recently noticed that flash content does not seem to be loading on chromium. I have pepper installed. Youtube videos seem to be loading fine(could be html5 I guess).But flash content on other sites is not loading. It just shows a blank white area(like this : http://string-db.org/newstring_cgi/show … ection.pl). Usually, a network graph should load. When I right click on the blank area, a drop-down menu for flash appears that says 'movie not loaded'. I have enabled flash player in about:plugins. Any suggesstions?

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

Did you see graysky's comment in the thread below?  Could that be it?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1419574

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gvenkat1994

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

Yes, I checked my /etc/chromium/default and this is what it contains :

# Default settings for chromium. This file is sourced by /usr/bin/chromium

# Options to pass to chromium
CHROMIUM_FLAGS=" --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=13.0.0.206"

Pepper seems to be passed correctly. What is the problem?

gvenkat1994

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

Do I need to install everything from scratch again? What order should I install flash, chromium if I do so  now?

gvenkat1994

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

Ok, this is strange. When I go to  http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ to check my flash version it does not show any flash content.  But when I change the URL to HTTPS, the flash animation loads! Any thoughts on that?
When oh when are web developers going to stop using flash and switch to HTML5 or other alternatives?

ooo

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

Is pepperflash listed in chrome://flash?

I had similar issue recently and simply reinstalling chromium-pepper-flash solved it for me.
Never figured out what could have caused it to stop working though.

gvenkat1994

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

Yes pepper is installed.

ooo

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

I understood that it is installed from your previous messages, but if you type 'chrome://flash' in address bar, do you see something like

Flash plugin	13.0.0.214 /usr/lib/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so

there?

If so, chromium should know that pepper flash is installed and use it for swf content, but it doesn't work for some other reason.

edit. I also noticed from your /etc/chromium/default that you're not usin the latest version of chromium-pepper-flash so upgrading it could help.

Last edited by ooo (2014-05-30 17:17:06)

gvenkat1994

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

I just downloaded and installed pepper flash. There doesn't seem to be any 'newer' version of pepper in the AUR.
But why does this happen only for http and not for https??

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

Did you ever find a solution?

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gvenkat1994

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Re: Chromium flash content not displaying

Yes, it seems to have fixed itself(maybe because of an update maybe?). I'm not sure how it fixed itself.