Flash doesn't work, never did. Help?

rollex2 · July 1, 2008, 1:57am

Hello,

I’ve been searching forum posts conserning about Flash Player in web browsers. My flash (for example embedded videos like youtube and metacafe etc.) doesn’t work: The player seems to produce image for 1-2 seconds without any sound and then freezes. It does the same with every flash application on the site.

This problem existed on my openSUSE 10.3 and persists in my current version 11.0 stable.

Flash doesn’t work neither in konqueror nor Firefox.

Could you help me?
Thanks in advance.

user · July 1, 2008, 7:20am

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Please post output from uname -a.

Good luck.

rollex2 wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I’ve been searching forum posts conserning about Flash Player in web
| browsers. My flash (for example embedded videos like youtube and
| metacafe etc.) doesn’t work: The player seems to produce image for 1-2
| seconds without any sound and then freezes. It does the same with every
| flash application on the site.
|
| This problem existed on my openSUSE 10.3 and persists in my current
| version 11.0 stable.
|
| Flash doesn’t work neither in konqueror nor Firefox.
|
| Could you help me?
| Thanks in advance.
|
|
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rollex2 · July 1, 2008, 10:44am


rolle@peikko:~> uname -a
Linux peikko 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

snakeeyes · July 1, 2008, 11:00am

have u added the packman repo and installed “flash-player”?

rollex2 · July 1, 2008, 2:30pm

Yes, it is installed. Tried to re-install and update but problem persists.

snakeeyes · July 1, 2008, 3:04pm

r u on 32 bit or 64 bit? have u tried another browser like opera maybe, please try it, its in the repos…

oldcpu · July 1, 2008, 3:22pm

If I may try help here. … Flash does work! … so we need to check your configuration, to confirm it is correct. Please post the output of the following:
rpm -qa | grep xine
rpm -qa | grep flash
rpm -qa | grep codec
rpm -qa | grep mplayer
rpm -q MPlayer
rpm -q vlc
I had to leave the rpm commands as “general” as my memory is notorious, and I’m not at a linux pc now, so I can’t be exact in my syntax.

user · July 1, 2008, 4:08pm

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See his reply to my first reponse… he’s on 32-bit.

Good luck.

snakeeyes wrote:
| r u on 32 bit or 64 bit? have u tried another browser like opera maybe,
| please try it, its in the repos…
|
|
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rollex2 · July 1, 2008, 7:48pm


rolle@peikko:~> rpm -qa | grep xine
kdemultimedia3-video-xine-3.5.9-58.5
libxine1-dxr3-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-w32dll-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-pulse-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-sdl-1.1.13-0.pm.3
xine-ui-debugsource-0.99.5cvs-20080426.pm.0
xinetd-2.3.14-115.1
libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.13-0.pm.3
xine-devel-1.1.12-8.1
xine-ui-debuginfo-0.99.5cvs-20080426.pm.0
libxine1-jack-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-1.1.13-0.pm.3
jftpgw-xinetd-0.13.5-0.pm.2
libxine1-dvb-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-xvmc-1.1.13-0.pm.3
xine-skins-1.0.3-0.pm.0
libxine1-aa-1.1.13-0.pm.3
xine-ui-0.99.5cvs-20080426.pm.0
libxine1-syncfb-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-arts-1.1.13-0.pm.3
gxine-0.5.903-0.pm.0
amarok-xine-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1


rolle@peikko:~> rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-9.0.124.0-10.1
flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release
libflashsupport-000-67.1


rolle@peikko:~> rpm -qa | grep codec
k3b-codecs-1.0.5-0.pm.2
opensuse-codecs-installer-10.3.1-45.1
w32codec-all-20071007-0.pm.1


rolle@peikko:~> rpm -qa | grep mplayer
smplayer-0.6.1-0.pm.1

rpm -q MPlayer


rolle@peikko:~> rpm -q MPlayer
MPlayer-1.0rc2-4.pm.1


rolle@peikko:~> rpm -q vlc
vlc-0.8.6h-4.6

oldcpu · July 1, 2008, 9:44pm

The first thing that strikes me is this:

why so many flash apps? All you need is flash-player. So I recommend you uninstall libflashsupport and flash-plugin.

It looks to me like you obtained your vlc from videolan? I confess I prefer the Packman packaged version:
vlc-0.8.6h-1.pm.1

and finally, you have way more xine apps than you need (IMHO). 22 different apps with xine as part of the file name! Why so many? More is not always better. Now I confess that I am guilty in that I too tend to have way more than I need, and yet, I have significantly less than you. In my case, I only have installed:

oldcpu@stonehenge:~> rpm -qa | grep xine
xinetd-2.3.14-77
xine-skins-1.0.3-0.pm.0
libxine1-arts-1.1.13-0.pm.3
amarok-xine-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1
xine-ui-0.99.5cvs-20080426.pm.0
kdemultimedia3-video-xine-3.5.7-61.pm.1
libxine1-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-xvmc-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-aa-1.1.13-0.pm.3

rollex2 · July 10, 2008, 10:19pm

So what’s the solution here?

I suppose uninstalling useless flash-modules and applications didn’t solve the problem. Now embed and other flash works eg. in youtube (plays till the end) but yet no sound…

and every time I reboot I have to install firefox extension all over again on flash-based page or page containing flash-elements.

Don’t know what to do.

oldcpu · July 10, 2008, 10:25pm

What codecs have you installed in addition to flash-player? xvid? w32codec-all?

oldcpu · July 10, 2008, 10:26pm

I also note you have mixed videolan packaged apps with packman packaged apps. That can also lead to problems.

kastorff · July 10, 2008, 11:20pm

Thread moving to Multimedia

rollex2 · July 17, 2008, 2:43pm

Yes, w32codec-all, xvid and w32codec-all installed. I removed vlc-repo and installed it from pacman-repo. I also tried reinstalling some sound apps (alsa, alsa-base, alsa-oss… the rest of the alsa, kdemultimedia, etc.) and plugins and also did suse update but nothing seemed to help. Also updated firefox to 3.0 final + reinstalled flash-player from repo. No change. I can watch youtube videos but no sound frown.

What’s next?

oldcpu · July 17, 2008, 3:11pm

Good!

Not so good an idea. This could introduce more problems if you are not careful.

But you do have sound nominally (outside of flash)? Right?

Did you recheck your mixer when playing you-tube videos?

cjcox · July 17, 2008, 4:55pm

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 13:16 +0000, oldcpu wrote:
> rollex2;1840762 Wrote:
> > Yes, w32codec-all, xvid and w32codec-all installed. I removed vlc-repo
> > and installed it from pacman-repo.
> Good!
>
> rollex2;1840762 Wrote:
> > I also tried reinstalling some sound apps (alsa, alsa-base, alsa-oss…
> > the rest of the alsa, kdemultimedia, etc.) and plugins Not so good an idea. This could introduce more problems if you are not
> careful.
>
>
> rollex2;1840762 Wrote:
> > Also updated firefox to 3.0 final + reinstalled flash-player from repo.
> > No change. I can watch youtube videos but no sound
>
> But you do have sound nominally (outside of flash)? Right?
>
> Did you recheck your mixer when playing you-tube videos?
>
>

I’m curious. Flash didn’t support esound or pulseaudio (without making
some hacks)… did openSUSE do the hacks to make this work? Otherwise,
it only works with alsa.

I’m not actively running openSUSE 11 yet… just something I know
from trying to get Flash to work with esound.

rollex2 · July 17, 2008, 5:10pm

I know but I was ready to take that risk. Introduced some desktop environment problems but fixed them fast after running suse kernel-update.

Yes. Perfect 5.1 sounds in system, amarok, mplayer and other media players.

What mixer?

oldcpu · July 17, 2008, 5:17pm

User rollex2 noted they had this problem in openSUSE-10.3 and 11.0. They also noted they have kdemultimedia3-video-xine-3.5.9-58.5 installed, which leads me to believe they have a KDE-3.5.9 desktop in openSUSE-11.0. Their reply to a “post the output of uname -a” request indicates they have a 32-bit 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae kernel. Hence this is not a 64-bit problem.

I also have a 32-bit openSUSE-11.0 kernel, and I had flash running with both the older 2.6.25.5 and also have it running NOW with the latest 2.6.25.9. Flash does work. I did nothing special. What I did NOT do is add videolan to my repos, but I stayed strictly with Packman. I also have not added any additional pulse audio apps to my 11.0, but stayed with the originally installed pulse audio apps that were installed as part of the DVD default install. And flash-player “just worked” for me with openSUSE-11.0 (after doing the nominal packman updates).

I suspect user rollext2 has done something fundamentally wrong, but trying to speculate where they went astray is puzzling. I supposed we could ask rollext2 to type:
rpm -qa | grep pulse
to see if they have added too many pulse applications

oldcpu · July 17, 2008, 5:20pm

Assuming you are running KDE, then kmix. Check your Master Volume and your PCM volume while the you tube video is playing.