Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: firefox-bin crashing a few times every day

[Mark Knecht]

On Nov 13, 2007 9:30 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> posted
> 5bdc1c8b0711121635t5a1e02abx807e5be4bab7c45e@××××××××××.com, excerpted
> below, on  Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:35:31 -0800:
>
> > OK, it seems that sometimes FLash is working on my system. It never
> > works on Yahoo but sometimes works on YouTube. I think it may fail on
> > YouTube after going to Yahoo, but not sure yet.
>
> Interesting.  I'm running swfdec (freedomware flash, was in the Sunrise
> overlay, don't know if it still is or if it moved into the main tree by
> now) on 64-bit firefox here.  Of course, it's not a full latest version
> implementation yet, but it does work on YouTube, which uses an older
> flash version, and I've been enjoying catching up on what everyone else
> has been raving about for awhile.
>

It seems to be in regular portage. I may try it out.

mark@lightning ~ $ eix swfdec
* media-libs/swfdec
     Available versions:  ~0.5.2 ~0.5.3 {ffmpeg gnome gstreamer mad oss}
     Homepage:            http://swfdec.freedesktop.org
     Description:         Macromedia Flash decoding library

* net-www/swfdec-mozilla
     Available versions:  ~0.5.2 ~0.5.3 {xulrunner}
     Homepage:            http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/
     Description:         Swfdec-mozilla is a decoder/renderer
netscape style plugin for Macromedia Flash animations.

Found 2 matches.
mark@lightning ~ $

I'm still not having too much trouble with YouTube. I'm having a
number of problems on Yahoo:

a) Almost all videos that don't resize to a larger display window
automatically play but paint a gray box over the top. Audio is fine.

b) I often see stranded 'npviewer.bin' processes left over in top.

c) I sometimes see stranded mplayer processes left over in top.

d) Yahoo searches for different video types so I tried each one out at
least once. Varied results. I searched out the Daily Show and then
tried the first one for each type that I could actually find. I'm not
asking anyone to explain any of this. Just posting the link for anyone
who would like to see how consistent the results might be.

As you can see below my results are not so good. I will use the same
links on my wife's Gentoo 32-bit machine and see how she does with
this.

i) AVI - Works.

http://cschneid.com/movies/2004-05-31_Talampaya_Geneva/Original_Muppet_Show/Kermit_the_Frog_on_The_Daily_Show_divx.avi

ii) MPEG = Works, uses mplayerplug-in - small window

http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/files/daily_show_video.mpg

iii) Flash - resizes to larger window - doesn't play

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1017234

iv) Real - Audio works, no video, uses mplayerplug-in

http://www.wilson-brothers.com/luke/multimedia/interviews/dailyshow01.rm

v) Quicktime - Video works, no audio - uses mplayerplugin

http://files.minut.ee/video/2005/The-Daily-Show-BushTalkingpointsIraq.mov

vi) Windows Media - this one worked, and worked inside Firefox.
Normally what I've seen is that WMV gets downloaded to my desktop and
I have to play them manually in Xine.

http://media.disloyal.org/Videos/476_ferrari_enzo_totaled.wmv

I'm going to be very busy for the rest of the week so it's likely I
won't get around to trying get Java working until the end of the week.
(Unless Beso or someone else reports back a more simple way of doing
it than the one proposed by Jeffery.)

Looking forward to hearing if this works better for others and how
these links do for you Duncan.

Thanks!

- Mark
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