flash, oss4, and opera

Ancestor · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 72

the problem is very strange.. I was a not-very-happy user of netscape-flash with nspluginwrapper.. it worked well in firefox (both 32 and 64 bit versions) and in opera.. then I switched to oss4.. I was unable to get sound from libflashplayer plugins in firefox and opera (64bit browsers unfortunately have problems with oss support in flash, and libflashsupport.so didn't work)..
but still I was able to use flash in firefox-bin, end eventually without sound in other browsers

but then I emerged newer version (9.0.115.0, previous was 9.0.48.0-r1) of netscape-flash.. and new problems appeared..
since I've emerged this version, flash in opera became completely useless (only white rectangles)
in firefox-bin and firefox it worked good, even sound..

but becase opera is my main browser I decided to completely unmerge netscape-flash, libflashsupport and nspluginwrapper, emerge it once again and then give it a try..

but there was still no flash in opera, and there was no sound in firefox (both versions)..
I downgraded to previous version of netscape-flash, and now I have flash in all browsers, but without sound

and here is what firefox prints in console:

jlh · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject:

I guess I'm having the same or a similar problem here. I'm on i686 and never had troubles with flash and opera/firefox with version net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1 and older (sound is fine too). But since I upgraded to net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.115.0 I also get those gray rectangles in opera instead of the flash content. It still works fine in firefox.

For now, I just masked 9.0.48.0-r1 and downgraded.

rwf · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 234 Location: mi.us

1. opera 9.25 and Flash 9.0.48 works. opera 9.25 does not work with Flash 9.0.115

2. opera 9.50 (1709 or greater) works with Flash 9.0 115

Ancestor · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 72

both statements are true

I can use flash 9.0.115 in opera 9.5, and 9.0.48 in opera 9.25
but there is one little problem.. still:

rwf · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 234 Location: mi.us

1. Is the shared library 'really' present?

2. Is the shared library 'really' 32-bit?

Ancestor · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 72

if you're asking of /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_oss.so, I can say it doesn't exist.. despite of installed emul-linux-x86-soundlibs alsa-lib etc.
so I removed all alsa packages, because they were unnecessary for me..

and now I get: