How to play local stored flashvideo.swf ?

[terjejh]

@malcolmlewis

Hi
OK, so as a test copy the mimeapps.list to your home directory as a backup, edit the file so there is only one line with application/x-shockwave-flash

Restart the shel and firefox and try opening, if it doesn’t work, check the FF preferences again and if the VLC plugin is still present delete and try firefox again.

You could then restore the original mimeapps.list file back and see if it comes back…

I tried, but still not possible to display the .swf flash-video file with VLC.

I did also disable the VLC web plugin in FF 'about:addons.
Then the default VLC media player was default in FF preferences.
I have the VLC Media player selected as the default (preferred) video application in Gnome control center.

By the way, VLC won’t display .swf flash video file stored locally, at least not on my system (and not on malcolmlewis’ system ?)

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Terje J. H