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mrunion

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Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

Can anyone get the imeem flash player to work on x86_64? On my laptop (i686) it works fine, but on my desktop (x86_64) the songs (not the youtube videos) won't play.

Try playing U2's City of Blinding Lights from this playlist:  http://www.songza.com/mrunion

Does it play for anyone else on x86_64? Note, all other flash sites work fine. I so have a sever delay after LONG flash videos play for 35-45 seconds. That occurs on 32 or 64 bit, though -- and both in KDE and Gnome on moth Firefox and Konquerer.

Can anyone help with this?  It wuit sometime last week I believe. Maybe is was the new Kernel?

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mrunion

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

Oh, it should also be noted that songs from imeem.com themselves also do not play on my x86_64 machine. I really have no idea what's causing this problem! I haven't rolled back the kernel because I think that's going overboard for some music -- but still it's odd.  It used to work. I just have no clue how to troubleshoot any further.

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mrunion

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

OK, I downgraded the kernel to 2.6.27 (and nvidia to 177.82 along with that) and there was no change. I have one more thing I know to try.  The last time I KNOW this stuff was working was on 1/11. on 1/12 my pacman logs showed that ffmprg and x264 got an upgrade. I am either going to try and rebuild those packages or download old versions and try them (or both?). If there's any news I'll chime in.

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mrunion

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

Alright -- after downgrading and recompiling almost every kernel, video and asuio related thing since the last know working time (1/11/2009) I think I've FINALLY found the problem:

imeem.com CHANGED their player and that one doesn't work!  Arrggghhh!

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atrofast

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

I'd love to find a solution to this but I've been googling this issue off and on for the last couple of weeks to no avail. If anyone knows something I'd be most grateful.

mrunion

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

I have no idea. There is a bug report opened with Adobe, but I don't currently have the link -- nor does it seem it's seeing much action!

I feel your pain!!

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skottish

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

I have no idea. There is a bug report opened with Adobe, but I don't currently have the link -- nor does it seem it's seeing much action!

I feel your pain!!

You may want to take a look at Mozilla's Tamarin site. That's where all the development of ActionScript is happening.

arew264

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

I've noticed this as well. It used to work...

And Skottish, was that a joke? Wait, it wasn't. Since when did the Mozilla foundation develop software for use in proprietary commercial systems? Isn't that like... against the license agreements?

Last edited by arew264 (2009-04-15 04:01:29)

skottish

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

I've noticed this as well. It used to work...

And Skottish, was that a joke? Wait, it wasn't. Since when did the Mozilla foundation develop software for use in proprietary commercial systems? Isn't that like... against the license agreements?

Mozilla has been helping develop Flash since before version 9.0 came out. Since Tamarin is fully open source, there are no licensing issues with changes that Adobe makes. I'm not sure what license Tamarin is under though. It may be under something other than the GPL family. I know that Mozilla has a separte license that they use sometimes. This may help:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/

-- EDIT --

It looks like the MPL (Mozilla Public License) allows for Adobe to ship binaries:

http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html

mrunion

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Re: Flash Problem with songza.com on x86_64

Here is the ticket on Adobe's site: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1023

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