I’m running 32 bit openSUSE 11.4, and recently ran zypper up. Now many
videos don’t play any more. For instance, on youtube, this one just
gives me a black screen in the video area - no play/stop controls and
the video never starts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-RKRNSG_c&feature=fvst
Actually, most fail to play. I stumbled across one earlier that played,
but now I can’t find any that will play.
They fail in Firefox, Opera and Konqueror.
I have an nVidia 5200 graphics card, running NVIDIA 173.14.31 (which
I’ve been running for months.)
I think it’s probably flash that’s busted. Going to adobe’s flash site
I don’t get the usual flash demo that shows it’s installed and working.
Here’s what zypper sees:
mkm@orca:~> zypper se flash
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary
| Type
--+---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------
i | flash-player | Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player
| package
| flash-player | Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player
| srcpackage
i | flash-player | flash-player security update
| patch
| flash-player-gnome | Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player
Settings | package
i | flash-player-kde4 | Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player
Settings | package
| flashrom | A universal flash programming utility
| package
i | pullin-flash-player | Placeholder for Adobe Flash PlugIn
| package
| pullin-flash-player | Placeholder for Adobe Flash PlugIn
| srcpackage
i | pullin-flash-player | pullin-flash-player: Trigger installation of
openSUSE flash player | patch
You may want to tell us which flash package version you have installed
rpm -qa |grep flash
Just an idea (workaround): You could try disabling the hardware acceleration for flash. Right-click on any flash video, select “Settings”, select the ‘Display’ tab, and uncheck “Enable hardware acceleration". See how that goes.
On 04/03/2012 08:36 PM, deano ferrari wrote:
>
> You may want to tell us which flash package version you have installed
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> rpm -qa |grep flash
> --------------------
>
>
> Just an idea (workaround): You could try disabling the hardware
> acceleration for flash. Right-click on any flash video, select
> “Settings”, select the ‘Display’ tab, and uncheck “Enable hardware
> acceleration". See how that goes.
On 04/03/2012 09:46 PM, caf4926 wrote:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/89g8de6
>
> If you right click a flash player screen> settings
>
> Try a different site with flash like a news channel or BBC
Rolled back to an earlier. It deinstalled flash-player-kde4 but no
matter. Not sure what the fallout of that is, but videos seem to work again.
How do you roll back? Every 3rd web page says “Flash plug-in crashed!” since the “zypper refresh/up” last Friday … (12.1 x86_64 Asparagus, and looks like FF11 now.)