Flashplugin not working

jacbart · 2014-07-06 18:42:24

I recently installed arch linux with i3 as my wm on my ux301l laptop. Right now I am trying to get the flashplugin to work on my machine. Whenever I open youtube in firefox or luakit, the image on the video runs for a second then freezes and then says that "An error has occured, please try again later." this issuse is quite annoying and would appreciate any help.

Thank you in advance.
Jack

Last edited by jacbart (2014-07-06 19:20:14)

kahrkunne · 2014-07-06 19:09:48

Does the problem occur when you're not using i3? Because I use i3 and I have no such issues.
I doubt the issue is related to i3.

jacbart · 2014-07-06 19:15:49

I don't know, I have not tried another wm I just put the wm in because I have no idea what is wrong with it.

kahrkunne · 2014-07-06 19:17:29

Well, the issue should be the flash plugin itself, not the WM.
I don't know anything about flash, so I can't help you with that, but at least change the title to not make it seem like i3 is responsible for this, even though there's zero clues that indicate so.
If the issue can't be reproduced outside of i3, now that's when you should start to worry that i3 might be at fault.

jacbart · 2014-07-06 19:21:24

Done. Plus I have removed flashplugin and then reinstalled it and it still does not work.

kahrkunne · 2014-07-06 20:03:26

I don't even use flash myself, so I sadly cannot help you with that. Best of luck, still!

emeres · 2014-07-06 22:33:22

Try changing hardware acceleration for flash.

$ cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
#Hardware video decoding
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0

For more informative feedback run firefox in a terminal.

jacbart · 2014-07-06 22:52:49

Okay so I changed the mms.cfg to look like yours and it did not help with the video but for some reason the commercial played on youtube. Here is the results from my terminal when I tryed to play a video on youtube.

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.co: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

emeres · 2014-07-06 23:07:54

Seems like several problems here. Try also enabling the acceleration. Show your ~/.asoundrc or any other alsa configuration file. Looks like pcm.default has been overwritten. As for the video acceleration part (vdpau), I have little to no experience with intel, but I think it should be libvdpau_i965.so not libvdpau_i965.co. Do you have appropriate [vdpau] packages installed for your hardware?

jacbart · 2014-07-06 23:14:24

that was my bad on the co and so part I don't have copy and paste working with my terminal so i typed it wrong it is libvdpau.so. As for the ~/.asoundrc, well I don't have one.

emeres · 2014-07-06 23:32:18

I assume here that you do not have pulseaudio installed.

$ cat /etc/asound.conf

If you do not have one, reinstall alsa and all its packages, since that error should not occur with the default setup. Show your audio hardware if it does not help:

aplay -lL; lspci -nn|grep -i audio; lsmod|grep ^snd

Run multiple speaker-test instances, all should output sound.

Does vdpauinfo return anything? Can you locate that library? You could try running firefox with ldd and a url to a flash video.

I would concentrate on video part first though.

Last edited by emeres (2014-07-06 23:33:05)

jacbart · 2014-07-07 00:03:51

I do have pulseadio installed but I still don't have that file. So I tryed to reinstall the alsa packages and I still don't have it.

Here is the other command

# aplay -lL; lspci -nn|grep -i audio; lsmod|grep ^snd

snd_hda_codec_hdmi     40396  1 
snd_hda_codec_realtek    54803  1 
snd_hda_codec_generic    56366  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_intel          22270  5 
snd_hda_controller     22911  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec         104665  5 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep               6652  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                83207  4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_timer              19294  1 snd_pcm
snd                    61276  18 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel

I don't know where the vdpauinfo is.

I will continue to search google the sorts for more info on these issues.

emeres · 2014-07-07 00:18:30

jacbart wrote:

I do have pulseadio installed but I still don't have that file. So I tryed to reinstall the alsa packages and I still don't have it.

You misunderstood me, that file is the global configuration for alsa, it does not exist by default. Since you are using pulseaudio install pulseaudio-alsa package, that should solve the audio issue for now. You only posted the output of the last command. If the alsa error is gone, ignore the rest and concentrate on video and your gpu.

Read the wiki for beginners how to look up certain binaries. Vdpauinfo is a binary that comes with vdpauinfo package from AUR.

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