[CentOS] 200 Stream not found errors in flash player and firefox

[Rob Kampen]

On 05/23/2012 11:38 PM, ken wrote:
> Rob, what are you doing to get the error message?  I.e., what command or
> application are you invoking and where does the "200 Stream...." error
> appear?
It appears in the middle of the flash player screen (black at this point 
as it is trying to load the stream)
> I've been having problems with flashplayer also-- for a long time and
> over many upgrades.  When, using firefox, I visit a site which invokes
> flashplayer, the cpu load begins to increase.... it can go from 0.4 to
> 6.8.  If I then close the tab to that site, the cpu load goes back down
> to where it was.  I've talked with friends who use Mac OS X and Windows
> and they both experience similar problems with flashplayer, so I always
> assumed it was something in flash.
Yes, flash player appears to have some nasty bits - maybe this is 
another reason why Apple / Steve Jobs was so anti flash on the iPhone.
I am now using Konqueror with flowplayer - this is a java / flash 
incarnation that seems to work fine.
>
> On 05/21/2012 11:09 PM Rob Kampen wrote:
>> Hi List,
>> I have been getting the above errors for the last few months and
>> extensive google foo has been less than conclusive - but indicates that
>> the requesting flash player is somehow putting the wrong url content
>> into the request.
>>
>> After I recently did a yum update on my wife's laptop she too started
>> getting these errors. She has an old sony laptop running 5.8 and other
>> than this error on various streaming tv links it is working just fine.
>> Needless to say, she is less than thrilled with my IT skills at this
>> point as she can no longer watch her favourite TV programs.
>>
>> So I decided to try and track down the problem on my own machine (CentOS
>> 6.2) where yumex allows you to see and load older versions of a package.
>> I started with a downgrade (and then a 2nd one .... and then the 5th
>> one) of libflashplayer.so - fortunately rpmforge has older versions.
>> Going right back to a 10.x version did not fix the problem. Thus I guess
>> it is a firefox / xulrunner problem, however I am not happy to go back
>> too many versions here as the exploit potential is much higher.
>>
>> Then I tried konqueror with flash enabled and guess what - no problems
>> with any of the links that fail under firefox / libflashplayer.
>>
>> So my question to the list members - does anyone else have this problem
>> with flash under firefox?? What do I do to fix it?
>> TIA
>> Rob
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