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On Monday 05 May 2008 18:04:42 Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 |
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> and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded |
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> flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt |
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> konqueror and my amd64 system is using netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, |
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> that version now seems to have been removed. So what version are people |
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> using? |
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> TIA |
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> -Robin |
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Taken, sucessfully, from |
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http://mikearthur.co.uk/2007/12/konqueror-with-latest-adobe-flash-howto/ |
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KMPlayer is my media player of choice as it allows you to trivially switch |
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between XINE, MPlayer and GStreamer backends and, as of version 0.10.0, has a |
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nifty backend that allows you to use XEmbed-supporting plugins, including |
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Adobe’s Flash plugin, which can then be embedded in Konqueror to allow Flash |
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to work trivially. |
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HOWTO: |
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Install KMPlayer. It is included in all the major distributions I’ve ever |
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used. Ensure it is installed/compiled with the “NPP” backend enabled which |
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allows the playback of Netscape XEmbed plugins |
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Run KMPlayer so it creates its config file. Close it. (This step probably |
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isn’t necessary but it won’t do any harm) |
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Open “~/.kde/share/config/kmplayerrc” in a text editor of your choice. Add the |
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following to the end of the file: |
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[application/x-shockwave-flash] |
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player=npp |
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plugin=/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so |
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Change the “plugin=” line depending on where the Adobe Flash plugin was |
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installed on your distribution. The above example is where it is installed on |
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Gentoo. (If people could reply with the location of it on their distribution |
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that would be great, thanks!). |
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Open Konqueror and click “Settings > Configure Konqueror…”. In the new window |
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navigate to “File Associations” in the left-hand panel and |
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select “application/x-shockwave-flash“. Click the “Embedding” tab and |
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click “Add..“. Select “Embedded MPlayer for KDE” from the new window. If it |
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is not there then you may need to restart KDE or run “kbuildsycoca” from a |
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terminal. Close all the opened windows. |
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Enjoy a working Flash in Konqueror! |
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As at least one of the commenters from the blog, I didn't habe an |
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application/x-shockwave-flash association, so had to create it. |
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Mike Williams |
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