flash 9 beta !!!

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PirahnaBreaks · Post by **PirahnaBreaks** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:39 am

New beta at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html - it should help with ALSA issues.

genmich · Post by **genmich** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:29 pm

netscape-flash-9.0.21.78.ebuild

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# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-www/netscape-flash/netscape-flash-9.0.21.78.ebuild,v 1.4 2006/11/01 01:54:03 tester E
xp $

inherit nsplugins

myPV=112006

S=${WORKDIR}/flash-player-plugin-${PV}/
SPLAYER=${WORKDIR}/flash-player-standalone-${PV}/
DESCRIPTION="Adobe Flash Player"
SRC_URI="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer9_update/FP9_plugin_beta_${myPV}.tar.gz
        http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer9_update/FP9_standalone_beta_${myPV}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.adobe.com/"

IUSE=""
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 -ppc -sparc ~x86"
LICENSE="Macromedia"

DEPEND="!net-www/gplflash
        amd64? ( app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs
                        app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs
                        app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs
                         app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs )
        x86? ( x11-libs/libXext
                x11-libs/libX11
                x11-libs/libXt
                =x11-libs/gtk+-2*
                media-libs/freetype
                media-libs/fontconfig )"

RESTRICT="nostrip"

#QA_TEXTRELS="opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so"

pkg_setup() {
        # This is a binary x86 package => ABI=x86
        # Please keep this in future versions
        # Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org> 2005/03/26
        has_multilib_profile && ABI="x86"
}

src_install() {
        dobin ${SPLAYER}/gflashplayer

        exeinto /opt/netscape/plugins
        doexe libflashplayer.so

        inst_plugin /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so

        dodoc readme.txt
}

(just the old beta with new version number)

trupoet · Post by **trupoet** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:34 pm

Got this installed finally.

Problems I ran into:

1. no mirrors had it yet, so it got it from macromedia.com
2. Once it downloaded them, the digest wasn't up to date so I manually digested
3. It couldn't read the archives, said they weren't valid tar archives.
4. I manually tried list via tar and indeed, they were corrupt or something.
5. I removed them and re-emerged, same thing.
6. I downloaded the tar.gz files myself via wget and put them in /usr/portage/distfiles
7. Re-digested, re-emerged and it worked just fine.

Any idea why it would work with wget alone but not with emerge (which I think uses wget anyway)?

mikegpitt · Post by **mikegpitt** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:59 pm

miga wrote:(just the old beta with new version number)

FYI 2 things:
- there is no need to edit the ebuild, since all that needs to change is the name of the file (the header line should not be added by me or you, only a gentoo dev when checking it into the tree)
- instead of posting here it is better to file a version bump on bugs.gentoo.org, assuming someone else hasn't done so already

yaq · Post by **yaq** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:07 pm

Skrot wrote:
dleverton wrote:When this happens, do you have any other movies loaded in other tabs/windows/browsers?
Not always. However loading up firefox and going straight to a flash video seems to lower the chance of the video/sound pause issue. I'm not really sure how to go about working out what the issue is. With a bit of persistence I can eventually see the whole clip, but not without some measure of frustration hehe.

Problem fixed in new version.

Skrot · Post by **Skrot** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:45 am

mikegpitt wrote:
miga wrote:(just the old beta with new version number)
FYI 2 things:
- there is no need to edit the ebuild, since all that needs to change is the name of the file (the header line should not be added by me or you, only a gentoo dev when checking it into the tree)

The myPV variable at the top of the .ebuild needed to be changed for the new tarballs.

yaq wrote:Problem fixed in new version.

Yeah in my limited testing so far, the issue does seem to be resolved. Wonderful!

Da Fox · Post by **Da Fox** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:06 am

Yep, I simulated high CPU load by running a couple of "while true ; do false ; done" processes, and while Video skipped badly, and audio a little bit it did not freeze.
If they keep this up we'll have a decent flash player for Linux before you know it :p

Btw, does anyone know why playing for example a youtube movie takes so much CPU power, while when playing the same movie with mplayer the CPU usage is almost unmeasurable? Is this related to the flashplayer itself or youtube's flashbased movie player?

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:38 am

trupoet wrote:1. no mirrors had it yet, so it got it from macromedia.com

That's not a problem, it's standard behaviour for Gentoo mirrors to be checked first, because they are a trusted source. Unfortunately that has the side-effect of showing several wget error messages.

2. Once it downloaded them, the digest wasn't up to date so I manually digested

You always have to "digest" a custom ebuild.

Any idea why it would work with wget alone but not with emerge

None (except for just blaming coincidence), unless you've customized FETCHCOMMAND in /etc/make.conf

yaq · Post by **yaq** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:11 pm

Da Fox wrote:Btw, does anyone know why playing for example a youtube movie takes so much CPU power, while when playing the same movie with mplayer the CPU usage is almost unmeasurable? Is this related to the flashplayer itself or youtube's flashbased movie player?

I think it is related to overall bad 'flash-linux' performance. Some complex flash banners (with transparnecy etc.) use 50% of my 1.3GHz, while running the same site under wine+ff2.0+win32 flash player it uses maybe 10%...

Tonglebeak · Post by **Tonglebeak** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:08 am

Got a question:

.swf files work fine, but is there anyway to get actual shockwave files to play? On candystand.com, most of the games are shockwave, and I can't play them as of yet

Lloeki · Post by **Lloeki** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:46 pm

shockwave is not flash, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave which contains good details. you could always get around that with ies4linux and wine. maybe.

Paczesiowa · Post by **Paczesiowa** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:39 pm

is it stable for u guys? I was using it with opera (and yes I did that trick with copying plugin to opera dirs and not netscape), and everything was working just like in ff (youtube,google even http://www.msdewey.com/) and it was great but it used to crash opera few times a day and it was sooo annoying I switched back to 7.*

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:58 am

Yay! Got the beta working with OSS

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:48 am

Tonglebeak wrote:Got a question:

.swf files work fine, but is there anyway to get actual shockwave files to play? On candystand.com, most of the games are shockwave, and I can't play them as of yet

Using Crossover Office, Shockwave works great even on my 64 bit konqueror. (Using nsplugins32)
Works perfectly in firefox-bin also.

musv · Post by **musv** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:05 am

Paczesiowa wrote:is it stable for u guys?

In Firefox it's ok. Sometimes the videos stop or the sound dissappears. But generally it's usable.

In Opera - forget it. My opera crashed all the time (freezing). So I installed both in Firefox and in Opera a Flashblocker.

Advantages: My Opera is usable again and faster than ever because that fucking flash content isn't to be loaded. On the space where the flash content is embedded I only see now the word "FLASH". If I want to consume that stuff I just click on the this word.

In Firefox the blocker shows a Play-Button.

The Flashblocker is the greatest invention since Flash.

One general thing about Flash I don't understand: Why produces this terrible thing in Linux a CPU-Usage like compiling Open-Office independent on the Flash version? The Macromedia team must have implemented an mprime-test instead of a nop.

Fac3k · Post by **Fac3k** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:15 pm

ppurka wrote:Yay! Got the beta working with OSS

gratz,
can you pls specify on what kind of system were you able to do that? I`d also like to know how exactly did you do that

Thanks in advance.

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:16 pm

Fac3k wrote:
ppurka wrote:Yay! Got the beta working with OSS
gratz,
can you pls specify on what kind of system were you able to do that? I`d also like to know how exactly did you do that

Thanks in advance.

Sure!
1. First go to this adobe site, and download flashsupport.c

2. Next compile as mentioned in the instructions. I don't have that ICU library, so I used the following command:

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cc -shared -O2 -Wall -Werror -lssl flashsupport.c -o libflashsupport.so

3. The second command is incorrect. You should do:

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ldd libflashsupport.so

4. Copy the .so file to /usr/lib

5. Maybe delete the pluginreg.dat file in your ~/.mozilla/firefox directory. (I didn't have to do this since I replaced flash 7 with 9.)

Those steps should be enough to get it working

Successfully running here on x86, with nvsound drivers and kernel 2.6.17. flash works fine in konqueror and firefox. However, though the videos run fine in opera, I don't have any sound in opera.

Fac3k · Post by **Fac3k** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:31 pm

It worked! I really appreciate your help. Thank you so very much!

search tags: flash 9 no sound oss x86 - resolved !

System_Failure · Post by **System_Failure** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:52 am

W00T!!!! works perfectly with nspluginwrapper on ~amd64 with firefox-bin-2.0!!! i'm going to go watch videos and stumble, LATER

Simius · Post by **Simius** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:06 pm

System_Failure wrote:W00T!!!! works perfectly with nspluginwrapper on ~amd64 with firefox-bin-2.0!!! i'm going to go watch videos and stumble, LATER

Yes, it does. No sound delay, no errors. A single freeze every week that can be resolved by a killall firefox-bin. There are two problems I found, however.
1. The all-too-well-known 32-bit / 64-bit ALSA dmix bug. Is there a way to disable sound in Flash, and enable it manually where needed (like in Youtube?)
2. Some flash content don't receive mouse events - specifically clicks. Mouseover IS received, click isn't. Some other flash content does receive clicks. Maybe even in the same single flash program. Like, the Youtube player's controls work perfectly, but the related links shown in the flash window after the video is played don't click.
This is most annoying when some shit-eating webmaster thought using flash as a menu system is Very Neat, and the godforsaken menu doesn't receive clicks...

genterminl · Post by **genterminl** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:13 am

The only line in /etc/package.unmask is "=net-www/netscape-flash-9*" (yes, without the quotes) but emerge still doesn't find it. I've typed that line manyally, and I've tried copying it from /usr/portage/profile/package.mask. I currently have 7.0.68 installed, and I'm on x86.

I'd appreciate any hints on finding what stupid thing I'm doing wrong.

Bloot · Post by **Bloot** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:16 am

You should also add it on package.keywords.

genterminl · Post by **genterminl** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:27 am

Good grief.... That did it. Exact line from package.mask put into package.unmask, and then the normal ~x86 in package.keywords.

Thanks.

Alejandro Nova · Post by **Alejandro Nova** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:33 pm

I installed alsa-driver-1.0.14rc1 with all its companion (alsa-headers, alsa-tools, and the like) and Flash suddenly was left without sound. The weird thing is: everything else is working with sound (Amarok, Ardour, etc). Sound worked with alsa-driver beta releases and with no change of tools and headers, so, I think, this bug is more related to ALSA than Flash.

Bloot · Post by **Bloot** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:58 pm

Alejandro Nova wrote:I installed alsa-driver-1.0.14rc1 with all its companion (alsa-headers, alsa-tools, and the like) and Flash suddenly was left without sound. The weird thing is: everything else is working with sound (Amarok, Ardour, etc). Sound worked with alsa-driver beta releases and with no change of tools and headers, so, I think, this bug is more related to ALSA than Flash.

I have the same issue except I don't have alsa-driver installed, just alsa-lib alsa-headers and alsa-utils, I explained it a page or two ago. Flash beta plugin won't share the sound device with alsa 1.0.13 packages or higher. I am stuck on the 1.0.11 ones due to this problem.

Anyway I think it's a flash fault, being in beta development yet, I bet it will be full compatible with alsa when the final version arrives.