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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:10 am    Post subject: vlc and adobe-flash Reply with quote

When I do a update world, vlc got upgraded/reinstalled. Afterward, flash content in browser (google-chrome) are replaced by vlc plugin, including YouTube, which doesn't work.

Re-emerging adobe-flashplugin reverses this behavior.

It seems like that's not a proper solution and I don't understand the root cause. Anybody?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

for temp workaround, disable nsplugin flag in vlc
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DaggyStyle wrote:
for temp workaround, disable nsplugin flag in vlc


There hasn't been a nsplugin useflag in vlc for quite sometime. If I'm not mistaken all vlc-2.x in portage are without this use flag. Instead with the 2.x versions one has to install media-plugins/npapi-vlc-2.0.0 for browser integration.

To the OP, I don't use Chrome or Chromium but have used Firefox for years. I had a similar problem as yours when vlc-2.x came into the tree, npapi-vlc seemed to cause vlc to become the default for all flash and didn't playback correctly.

I was able to resolve it by going to 'edit-preferences-applications' and setting the preferences for 'flash video' to 'libflashplayer.so'.

There must be a similar mechanism in Chrome / Chromium to set the application default for opening each mime-type. That will be where you can make the adjustment without having to do something as drastic as uninstalling npapi-vlc which is needed to playback non-flash content (that is if you don't use another web enabled media-player, such as mplayer).

I hope this helps.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

right, didn't noticed the flag was removed, nothing to add anymore.
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