On Thu, January 22, 2015 12:27, Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:36:24AM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
If one has already done all that and, following the most recent FF
update, all that is displayed is a video window with the Flash
logo/Button in the middle. And regardless of how many times one
clicks on said button no video will show or sound will emit, what then?
What firefox plugins do you have installed that might be blocking
flash?
I personally don't use flash stuff much, but I have noscript
installed
and it makes me either allow javascript or click on the embedded
flash
content to view it. But so far it always seems to work when I
either
allow javascript on the site or click on the content.
I thought that was the case too. However, disabling NoScript for YouTube does not change the observed behaviour. It is decidedly odd in that the Flash video will not play until one sets the enable html5 option in YouTube.
One of the artifacts of switching the html5 on in YT is that upon returning to the video page the video canvas shows an error message, with the 'Try again later' tag. But simply clicking on the video frame a second time starts the video.
I am not sure what is going on. I have discovered that the same approach (switching on html5 in YouTube) has solved this issue for a least one of the impacted users. I will try it on others as the occasion permits.
It seems to me likely to be a FF issue at its core.
On 23.01.2015. 14:52, James B. Byrne wrote:
On Thu, January 22, 2015 12:27, Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:36:24AM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
If one has already done all that and, following the most recent FF
update, all that is displayed is a video window with the Flash
logo/Button in the middle. And regardless of how many times one
clicks on said button no video will show or sound will emit, what then?
What firefox plugins do you have installed that might be blocking
flash?
I personally don't use flash stuff much, but I have noscript
installed
and it makes me either allow javascript or click on the embedded
flash
content to view it. But so far it always seems to work when I
either
allow javascript on the site or click on the content.
I thought that was the case too. However, disabling NoScript for YouTube does not change the observed behaviour. It is decidedly odd in that the Flash video will not play until one sets the enable html5 option in YouTube.
One of the artifacts of switching the html5 on in YT is that upon returning to the video page the video canvas shows an error message, with the 'Try again later' tag. But simply clicking on the video frame a second time starts the video.
I am not sure what is going on. I have discovered that the same approach (switching on html5 in YouTube) has solved this issue for a least one of the impacted users. I will try it on others as the occasion permits.
It seems to me likely to be a FF issue at its core.
I solved that for Firefox 35.x.
I added some symlinks to $HOME/.mozilla/plugins
Here is the list of symlinks:
[drlove@kanc ~]$ cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins [drlove@kanc plugins]$ readlink -f * /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so /usr/lib64/IcedTeaPlugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
I have not made java work though, but I have 31.x for that if necessary
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