gplflash sucess ? (Solved Workaround)

Mythos · l33t Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal

nspluginwrapper with flash 9

Hi there anyone have installed with sucess the new gplflash ?

For amd64 firefox
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dangertools · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:14 am Post subject:

installed yes, but when i choose a webpage with enabled flash my mozilla crashes. so swfdec is the only thing i have

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Mythos · l33t Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal

Hi there dangertools, thank you for the answer, but is swfdec a plugin for mozilla or is just a external tool ?
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dangertools · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject:

try it and you will see! it is a plugins but it doesn't work really good

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axelmasok · Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 171

I seem to have firefox, java and flash working so far.
I got annoyed with firefox-bin and no java with flash7 so i tried out gplflash again.
Simply emerged the following on amd64:

gplflash-0.4.10-r3
mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3
blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 (jre if you like)

Now I know that gplflash only supports <v4 flash but i'll take my chances.
It has been patched so it doesn't segfault on amd64.
Java is fine as far as I can tell.

Axel

xordan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 148

Nope, crashes for me, and somehow screwed up firefox so it segfaults

dangertools · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:08 am Post subject: Re: Gplflash

axelmasok · Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 171

Axel[/quote]

we have talked about errors which still exist in gplflash-0.4.12 and so be sure that *.10 has much more problems

, and yes, this old version only supports flash <v4. latest version would be 0.4.13 but looks like it has some major problems too cause eg there is no ebuild for it and i tried to install it from the tarball and it didn't work too.[/quote]

Your likely to be correct. The version I run is probably buggy still. I can say now after a week of use everything seems "reasonably" OK. I had one or two firefox crashes but on returning to the same page later prooved OK.
By no means am I a lucky one. I will keep my eye on new versions and test them as I go.

tcbounce · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:58 am Post subject: no joy with gplflash

I've been getting segfault's on every flash page I tried too. I emerge it with the oss use flag (which probably created more problems)

It will be great when we have something that works.

I also suggest an mozilla XUL extention that puts an sexy "F" icon where the flash would be - that is configured to load flash on demand, and report that your browser is flash capable. So even if you have the flash plugin from hell installed, (that may work on some sites), at least you know when your mozilla session is about to die, the instant you click on an unloaded flash object

Reminds me of at 2400bps connection and manually loading images in Netscape 2.0.

Cheers,

Luke

chchoque · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Paris/France

Luke,

Are you using the 0.4.13 version?

The 0.4.12 was crashing immediatly because of wrong size of integer. The drawing code was supposing that an int was 32 bits...
You have two ways to make it work:
- grab the 0.4.12 and get the amd64 patch available at sourceforge. I have developped this patch on a dual opteron, gentoo-64, kernel 2.6.9. I have no major crash so far.
- grab the 0.4.13. This version sometimes crashes on my machine. It has some parts of the amd64 patch. The missing part is thread safe section that prevents firefox to close the plugin while it renders sound, video or is drawing. This problem has also be reported on x86. The crash occurs when you have multiple Flash scripts in a page.

If you get compiling errors on 0.4.13, edit the makefile to remove the faulty .libs that cause the link to fails (.libs/;libs). This is a configure version problem.

FYI, I'am working on a next major step. The new plugin will be based on openGL for rendering and will implement flash action script, up to version 7. That's a lot of work. There is a big library to write and I'am now in the Object/inheritance model implementation.
The graphic layer still need some fixing.

The main concern I have now is that I'am nearly the only active developer on gplFlash. As soon as the base code and the design will be stabilized, we need more developer involved if we want to have something available before summer for gentoo-64 users.

Cheers
Christophe

axelmasok · Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 171

Thanks Christophe,
I thought gplflash was more active than just 1 developer. I wish I could help. It is a shame with all the crying over no flash on amd64 that gplflash would have more support. I will use gplflash 100% over macromedia. Will continue to keep an eye on new versions to test.
I have compiled 0.4.13 the other day to test and am getting a few random firefox crashes. about:plugins reports 0.4.12 still.
If there are any developers interested reading this - offer some help to Christophe if you can spare the time.