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ttuegel Apprentice
Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 176 Location: Illinois, USA
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:51 pm Post subject: Hulu and 64-bit Flash |
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Hello! Recently, I started being unable to watch videos on Hulu in Firefox, although I have Flash installed. I installed the 32-bit firefox-bin, in which Hulu works correctly. When trying to watch any video in 64-bit mozilla-firefox, the Hulu video player loads, but then reports:
Quote: | Sorry, we are unable to stream this video. Please check your internet connection and try again. |
Is anyone else experiencing this, and does anyone have a solution? Package versions are:
Code: | [I] www-plugins/adobe-flash
Installed versions: 10.0.45.2!m!s(05:40:12 PM 02/12/2010)(32bit 64bit multilib) |
Code: | [I] www-client/firefox-bin
Installed versions: 3.6-r1!m!s(07:04:33 AM 02/16/2010)(linguas_en linguas_en_US startup-notification -restrict-javascript) |
Code: | [I] www-client/mozilla-firefox
Installed versions: 3.6-r2(06:22:01 AM 02/26/2010)(alsa dbus libnotify linguas_en linguas_en_US startup-notification -bindist -custom-optimization -elibc_FreeBSD -gnome -java -wifi) |
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audiodef Watchman
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 6639 Location: The soundosphere
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ttuegel Apprentice
Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 176 Location: Illinois, USA
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well, Flash works for everything else I've tried, hence my confusion. Also, it worked until about a week ago! I just wanted to see if I could avoid using 32-bit Firefox, since the fonts look like excrement. |
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audiodef Watchman
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 6639 Location: The soundosphere
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ttuegel Apprentice
Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 176 Location: Illinois, USA
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:40 am Post subject: |
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Ah, I've found that thread now, thanks! (Search FAIL: "hulu 64-bit" is apparently too specific, while "hulu" does just fine.) |
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audiodef Watchman
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 6639 Location: The soundosphere
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johnny99 Apprentice
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Still a problem with 64bit.
The Hulu error message now blames Adobe for 64bit Linux problems.
Running hulu via /usr/bin/firefox (with www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.8, www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.45.2) now shows the message:
Quote: | We're sorry but we're unable to stream videos to your system.
This may be due to an Adobe software limitation
on 64-bit Linux systems. |
Hulu kicks the binary ball into Adobe's side of the court.
However, I was able to watch a show last night via /usr/bin/firefox-bin (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5..
I built flash with both 32 and 64 bit.
eix -I flash
Code: | [I] www-plugins/adobe-flash
Available versions: ~9.0.262.0!m!s 10.0.45.2!m!s {32bit 64bit multilib}
Installed versions: 10.0.45.2!m!s(19:38:16 03/11/10)(32bit 64bit multilib)
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/
Description: Adobe Flash Player |
But flash still lacks gpu direct rendering, even though my driver and card support it,
so Adobe has Linux issues on multiple fronts.
How about some love Adobe? |
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platojones Veteran
Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 1602 Location: Just over the horizon
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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I'm getting the same message from hulu.com using both FF and Chromium. What is really strange about that is: huludesktop, which also uses the 64 bit adobe flash player (my understanding), works just fine. I don't get it. |
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audiodef Watchman
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Kenji Miyamoto Veteran
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 1452 Location: Looking over your shoulder.
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:04 am Post subject: |
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platojones wrote: | I'm getting the same message from hulu.com using both FF and Chromium. What is really strange about that is: huludesktop, which also uses the 64 bit adobe flash player (my understanding), works just fine. I don't get it. | Huludesktop segfaults for me on start, so that isn't an option. _________________ [ Kawa-kun, new and improved!! ]
Alex Libman seems to be more of an anarchist than a libertarian. |
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devsk Advocate
Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 2995 Location: Bay Area, CA
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Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Anybody got any leads on this? |
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johnny99 Apprentice
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Berkeley, California
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johnny99 Apprentice
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 249 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Well, Adobe has responded to bug https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-4067
Quote: | Hulu has gone back to the original error message ("Sorry, we are unable to stream this video. Please check your internet connection and try again."), not trying to blame Adobe anymore. |
The Adobe solution was to get Hulu to change the message.
They closed the bug and didn't fix anything.
Adobe has earned their loss, and no love here.
I certainly hope HTML5 offers a full flash replacement, platform agnostic, cross-browser supported, standards compliant, and is adopted by anyone that uses flash. |
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BonesToo Apprentice
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 153
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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man i'm having this same problem now, neither huludesktop or hulu in browser will play video, but the ads and intros play just fine. And it all was working a week or 2 ago just fine. I don't remember installing or changing anything recently. No clue how to fix this. |
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platojones Veteran
Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 1602 Location: Just over the horizon
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | but the ads and intros play just fine. |
Yeah, same here...Isn't that funny...you get to watch the ads, but you can't see the videos. Hulu is doing this (they are trying to transition to a paid model).
Hulu sux! |
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BonesToo Apprentice
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