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My frustration is with the Linux Flashplayer. I run a Dell Inspiron 660 which came with Windows 7 preinstalled. I subscribed to a movie from the Amazon movie site and that movie runs perfectly in Windows.

Not so in SuSE 12.2 on the same system, same hardware. No matter what I do, I keep being told to install the flashplayer. And that is:

flash-plugin-11.2.202.251-release.x86_64(1).rpm

To test the system, I installed it into its own folder so that I could check to see where the various files should be. And that is:

/usr/bin lib lib64 and share

libflashplayer.so in the Firefox plugins folder

All files are in fact there yet the player will not work.

Anyone having some helpful ideas will be making my day here!

Thanks in advance!

I might also trouble a response to be sent to: hq(dot)the(dot)alfanut@gmail(dot)com

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have you tested your install of flash by going to youtube and trying to play a video?

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I have! YouTube works without a hitch, has from the beginning. It’s the Amazon.com movies which won’t play. Time after time, it wants me to update my player.

Searching other threads, I checked my system and libflashplayer.so existed in /usr/lib64 but not in /usr/lib so I copied it there with no results either.

I have no other video problems, just in the Amazon site. Thank you for caring!

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On 11/28/2012 07:56 PM, TheAlfanut wrote:
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> My frustration is with the Linux Flashplayer.

first, there is no such thing as a Linux Flash, all the flash in the
universe is made by Adobe…and, what they make for Linux SUCKS! and
they do not care.

> Not so in SuSE 12.2

likewise there is no such thing as SuSE 12.2, there is however, an
openSUSE 12.2

> No matter what I do, I keep being told to install the flashplayer.

that is because (i guess) you didn’t install it the correct way, with
YaST Software Management and then update it with YaST Online Update…

>
> All files are in fact there yet the player will not work.

in the Firefox location/URL bar type and enter


about:plugins

and scroll down to see if you find “Shockwave Flash” and what version…

and/or, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ and see what it
says you have installed, and compare it to the list of what is the latest…

if the adobe site says you have the latest installed and the movie
site tells you to install Flash, i guess one of two problems:

  1. the movie site is hard coded to only want to deal with the latest
    Windows release (which you may notice at the adobe site is 11.5, and
    for linux is 11.2)…some (brain dead) web sites just won’t accept that
    not everyone on earth runs Windows or Mac…

  2. perhaps you have turned off javascript–sometimes if you have
    javascript turned off the warning you get is to install Flash…that
    has been going on for years…

> Anyone having some helpful ideas will be making my day here!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> I might also trouble a response to be sent to:
> hq.the.alfanut@gmail.com
>
>

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Am 28.11.2012 21:06, schrieb TheAlfanut:
> the Amazon.com movies which won’t play. Time after time, it wants me to
> update my player.
Just a thought since we do no longer get new versions of flash in linux
(Adobe stopped updates we only get bugfixes) that you try google chrome
as browser. It is the only browser which comes with flash built into the
browser itself and has a newer version.
You need to install the proprietary chrome not the open source chromium
to test this.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/

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On 11/28/2012 09:06 PM, TheAlfanut wrote:
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> I have no other video problems, just in the Amazon site.

then the problem is either:

  1. allow javascript

or

  1. contact amazon and work out with them why you can use Flash at all
    sites in the universe except theirs…(and, i guess you will find the
    real problem is something to do with DRM)

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This might help you

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/476328-flash-player-requires-hal-drm-content.html

you can get hal here

http://software.opensuse.org/package/hal

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I suggest installing google chrome as for now it will bypass any flash issues until A: Firefox adapts to pepper (unlikely to happen)
2: the pepper flash plugin is liberated from chrome as its own package and set up to work with chromium (more likely to happen)
This more adobes fault then linuxes of course, they dont care nor they ever will.

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On 11/30/2012 04:16 AM, MadmanRB wrote:
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> I suggest installing google chrome as for now it will bypass any flash
> issues until A: Firefox adapts to pepper (unlikely to happen)
> 2: the pepper flash plugin is liberated from chrome as its own package
> and set up to work with chromium (more likely to happen)
> This more adobes fault then linuxes of course, they dont care nor they
> ever will.
>
>

Sounds good, but Chrome’s flash is fundamentally broken… so maybe it’s not a
great as it sounds. Even switching it away to using “true” flash is not working
perfectly there. IMHO, chrome is deteriorating quickly (not just flash, there
are other issues too)…

So… flash still works best with a working Firefox… though obviously, Ffox
changes rapidly (today’s Ffox is not necessarily a “good” Ffox) … Feel free
to disagree if you want on that, but some of us have to support 100’s of
thousands of users because our services depend upon flash. So… I’m prepared
to back up my assessment of Chrome (which we’re now telling our clients to
switch away from… and realize the majority are Windows users).

In general, with Ffox’s fast releases, we’re able to work around their issues…
Chrome is much more difficult.

And… with that said, if Chrome works for you… and you’re satisfied, then feel
free to continue to use it. But IMHO, Chrome is going to be the death of you…
eventually… (in my opinion of course… but based on a LOT of data).

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9 Jan 13, update – installed Hal, Amazon movie site message was, Player Crashed. Hmm! Reinstall flash player, conflict with older version which I uninstalled. Then, fresh new flash player installation and still no go. Uninstall Hal, try again, same as before when trying to play the movie. Updating flash player, then, zip. Zilch. Mind you, at no time did any of this affect videos on YouTube. Each time, they ran fine.

Neither of my current versions of openSuSE, that is, 11.4 or 12.2 will run that movie. Neither would various other Linux distros I tried. But one – Mandriva 2010.1 does! Problem there is, wrong video resolution for my new wide screen monitor. So sorry!

Several weeks of various frustrations, trial and error, waiting to D/L distros, install, update only to get the same basic results. Nothing. My dear wife asked, why bother? Indeed! The challenge of trying to make it work, I guess. Too many years of installing nVidia drivers, kernel sources, configuring Linux systems. I’m tired of it all. Linuxmint installed things automatically, configured the system well. Very nice. But for that one exception. No flash in Amazon.

So I guess when I get that craving, I launch XP and watch my movie. Then, reboot to Linux. Nuts! Google Chrome would not do it, either! Zippedi-doodah!

I want to say thanks to all those who bothered reading my thread, commenting and offering suggestions. Thank you, all! I’ll stick with open SuSE 11.4 for now, it offers a lovely version of TiMidity, another of my favorite utilities and I have collected hundreds of midis over the years. Nice sound when installing the EAWPATS sound patch files. Realistic! Use an external amp for additional speakers, kick back, sip the magical amber liquid and laugh. Life goes on!

Thank you again for bothering. I’m done. Cheers! Happy New Year!

HQ