[SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

chris_debian · 2012-05-31 07:57:52

Hi, all.

Happy to have just installed Arch, after not using it for a while. It's looking as good as ever, but I can't get Flash to work.

I installed Gnash and some things work, but not many. Wanting to be able to use a full Flash implementation, I installed the Flashplugin on my 32-bit box.

When I go to the Adobe test page, I don't see any Flash. When I go to YouTube and similar, I just get a black 'box'. When I visit websites with Flash effects, these do not work and I am told I need a plugin.

When I look at Firefox's 'about:plugins' page, Flash is associated with swf files, so that looks ok.

Can anyone help me with this? If I can get it sorted, my main box may well be having an Arch install, today.

Fingers crossed.

Cheers,

Chris.

Last edited by chris_debian (2012-05-31 15:08:50)

Lone_Wolf · 2012-05-31 11:44:33

Sounds like a firefox addon you use blocks flash, do you have noscript installed ?

If so, you'll have to allow javascript for the sites you want to use flash on.

If you don't use noscript, check what other addons might be the cause of the block.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2012-05-31 11:44:47)

chris_debian · 2012-05-31 11:49:53

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Sounds like a firefox addon you use blocks flash, do you have noscript installed ?
If so, you'll have to allow javascript for the sites you want to use flash on.
If you don't use noscript, check what other addons might be the cause of the block.

Hi, thanks for the reply. The only add on I have installed is a block. I have this installed with other distros and it doesn't interfere with Flash.

Thanks,

Chris.

x33a · 2012-05-31 12:14:49

Probably It's due to hardware acceleration. Disable it.

chris_debian · 2012-05-31 12:33:19

x33a wrote:

Probably It's due to hardware acceleration. Disable it.

Hi x33a!

I meant to say 'adblock' above, but my phone had other ideas. Could you be more specific regarding your suggestion. I don't recall doing anything regarding acceleration and my X is configured dynamically (no xorg
Conf).

Thank you.

Chris.

x33a · 2012-05-31 12:38:24

I meant flash hardware acceleration.

Put this in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

#Hardware video decoding
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode = 0

and see if it makes a difference.

chris_debian · 2012-05-31 13:49:41

Unfortunately, that didn't seem to change anything.

The contents of the file looks like this:

#Hardware video decoding
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=0

and prior to editing, looked like this:

#Hardware video decoding
#EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1

Thanks for trying.

Chris.

chris_debian · 2012-05-31 15:08:10

From the Arch wiki:

"Troubleshooting

If you have Abobe Flash installed on an older system and you start playing a video which simply turns black with nothing happeing, it is most likely that your CPU does not support ISSE2. You can simply check out this by looking at your CPU flags with this command:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags

If sse2 is not mentioned there, then you need to install an older version of Flash (for example 10.3). "

I only have SSE, not ISSE2, so I think that may be why. I have partial success with Gnash, so will stick with that for now. At least it's open source.

Thanks for your help, all.

Chris.

chris_debian · 2012-05-31 15:14:08

Wow, YouTube works and the Adobe test page, that's a bonus!

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#1 2012-05-31 07:57:52

[SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

#2 2012-05-31 11:44:33

Re: [SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

#3 2012-05-31 11:49:53

Re: [SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

#4 2012-05-31 12:14:49

Re: [SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

#5 2012-05-31 12:33:19

Re: [SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

#6 2012-05-31 12:38:24

Re: [SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

#7 2012-05-31 13:49:41

Re: [SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

#8 2012-05-31 15:08:10

Re: [SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

#9 2012-05-31 15:14:08

Re: [SOLVED] Flashplugin Does Not Work With Firefox.

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