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mfaridi

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swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

I download some flash game and , all of them are swf and  I open them by firefox , but with firefox I can not play these games
what is problem ?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

How did you download these games, can you give us some examples (names, urls)?
Are you getting any errors when trying to play them? Do you have flashplugin installed?
Can you play http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/SWF/ ?

kurt

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Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

I download some flash game and , all of them are swf and  I open them by firefox , but with firefox I can not play these games
what is problem ?

Downgrade to shared-mime-info 1.1-1

mfaridi

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Registered: 2010-12-15

Posts: 192

Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

How did you download these games, can you give us some examples (names, urls)?
Are you getting any errors when trying to play them? Do you have flashplugin installed?
Can you play http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/SWF/ ?

thanks
when i open swf in that link ,firefox play them , but when i download them and i want stat them from hard disk , firefox an not play them

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

I download some flash game and , all of them are swf and  I open them by firefox , but with firefox I can not play these games
what is problem ?

I know exactly what you mean. I experience the same problem. A quick Internet search says there's no solution. In theory you should be using "flashplayer-standalone" from the AUR instead, but it seems to have dependency problems.

Anyway, I have a workaround: I host my own web server, which means I just throw the SWF file into a public directory then visit that address so Firefox thinks it's on the Internet. It works.

Downgrade to shared-mime-info 1.1-1

I can imagine this as a possible solution, but I'm not willing to downgrade that far just to get it to work.

Let me know if you find a way to get it to work!

karol

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Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

when i download them and i want stat them from hard disk , firefox an not play them

'firefox test.swf' works for me.

The 'usa*.swf' are NSFW and I they seem to only display a still frame - not a very good way of testing. Should I e-mail someone at mplayer about this?

mfaridi

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Registered: 2010-12-15

Posts: 192

Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

I download some flash game and , all of them are swf and  I open them by firefox , but with firefox I can not play these games
what is problem ?

I know exactly what you mean. I experience the same problem. A quick Internet search says there's no solution. In theory you should be using "flashplayer-standalone" from the AUR instead, but it seems to have dependency problems.

Anyway, I have a workaround: I host my own web server, which means I just throw the SWF file into a public directory then visit that address so Firefox thinks it's on the Internet. It works.

Downgrade to shared-mime-info 1.1-1

I can imagine this as a possible solution, but I'm not willing to downgrade that far just to get it to work.

Let me know if you find a way to get it to work!

thanks
I run Nginx web server on my computer and make swf directory in
/usr/share/nginx/html/swf
and put all swf files in swf directory but when I type in firefox
http://127.0.0.1/swf/
I see error about
403 Forbidden

I set permission 777 for swf directory and all swf files , but my problem do not solve and still I see problem about permission

rainbowdashc

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Registered: 2013-09-30

Posts: 70

Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

I download some flash game and , all of them are swf and  I open them by firefox , but with firefox I can not play these games
what is problem ?

I know exactly what you mean. I experience the same problem. A quick Internet search says there's no solution. In theory you should be using "flashplayer-standalone" from the AUR instead, but it seems to have dependency problems.

Anyway, I have a workaround: I host my own web server, which means I just throw the SWF file into a public directory then visit that address so Firefox thinks it's on the Internet. It works.

Downgrade to shared-mime-info 1.1-1

I can imagine this as a possible solution, but I'm not willing to downgrade that far just to get it to work.

Let me know if you find a way to get it to work!

thanks
I run Nginx web server on my computer and make swf directory in
/usr/share/nginx/html/swf
and put all swf files in swf directory but when I type in firefox
http://127.0.0.1/swf/
I see error about
403 Forbidden

I set permission 777 for swf directory and all swf files , but my problem do not solve and still I see problem about permission

Firstly, don't use 777.

mfaridi

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Registered: 2010-12-15

Posts: 192

Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

in first time I choose chmod 755for swf folder and 644 for swf files but I see forbidden error again

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

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Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

'firefox test.swf' works for me.

But it doesn't work for me... O_o I wonder what's different between our two setups.

karol

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Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

'firefox test.swf' works for me.

But it doesn't work for me... O_o I wonder what's different between our two setups.

Can you run it via the firefox application menu: File -> Open File ...?

skottish

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Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

I can do it just like karol does. I'm wondering if the reason is is that I have no mime associations with x-shockwave-flash (I'm using zeldaADPCM5bit.swf from mplayer's samples)?

~ > xdg-mime query default application/x-shockwave-flash
~ >

--EDIT--

Never mind. It doesn't work for chromium and I should probably stay out of this thread as I didn't help the last one like this very much...

Last edited by skottish (2014-06-06 22:52:16)

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

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Re: swf game and firefox can not run them only download them

Ok, I found a "fix". kurt was right:

Downgrade to shared-mime-info 1.1-1

First of all, let's get something good to test.

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail35.swf

In the file "/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml", find the section for "application/vnd.adobe.flash.movie". Delete it all (from "mime-type" to "/mime-type") and replace it with this:

  <mime-type type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
    <comment>Shockwave Flash file</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ar">ملف Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="be@latin">Fajł Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="bg">Файл — Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ca">fitxer Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="cs">Soubor Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="da">Shockwave Flash-fil</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="de">Shockwave-Flash-Datei</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="el">αρχείο Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="en_GB">Shockwave Flash file</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="eo">dosiero de Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="es">archivo Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="eu">Shockwave Flash fitxategia</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="fi">Shockwave Flash -tiedosto</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="fo">Shockwave Flash fíla</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="fr">fichier Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ga">comhad Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="gl">ficheiro sockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="he">קובץ של Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="hr">Shockwave Flash datoteka</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="hu">Shockwave Flash-fájl</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="id">Berkas Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="it">File Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ja">Shockwave Flash ファイル</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="kk">Shockwave Flash файлы</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ko">Shockwave 플래시 파일</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="lt">Shockwave Flash failas</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="lv">Shockwave Flash datne</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ms">Fail Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="nb">Shockwave Flash-fil</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="nl">Shockwave Flash-bestand</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="nn">Shockwave Flash-fil</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="pl">Plik Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="pt">ficheiro Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="pt_BR">Arquivo Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ro">Fișier Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="ru">файл Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="sk">Súbor Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="sl">Datoteka Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="sq">File Flash Shockwave</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="sr">Шоквејв Флеш датотека</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="sv">Shockwave Flash-fil</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="uk">файл Shockwave Flash</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="vi">Tập tin Flash Shockwave</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="zh_CN">Shockwave Flash 文件</comment>
    <comment xml:lang="zh_TW">Shockwave Flash 檔</comment>
    <alias type="application/futuresplash"/>
    <generic-icon name="video-x-generic"/>
    <magic priority="50">
      <match value="FWS" type="string" offset="0"/>
      <match value="CWS" type="string" offset="0"/>
    </magic>
    <glob pattern="*.swf"/>
    <glob pattern="*.spl"/>
  </mime-type>

And now Firefox will play local SWF files properly. I'm sure there's a better fix for this. Maybe someone smarter than me can find it.