[Swfdec] Re: swfdec-mozilla plugin crashing Firefox; no sound

[Benjamin Otte]

On 5/4/07, John Thissen <jthissen at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I hate to bother you with what is likely an installation problem (i.e.,
> not a bug), but there seems to be no one else to ask....
>
A good idea is to either mail the list or - even better - file a bug
in bugzilla instead of mailing me. That way chances are higher that
someone can help you. And as a bonus, if the problem is solved, it can
be googled. :)

> On youtube, I can view video (for a while), but there is no sound.
> Right-clicking on the flash content shows that sound is enabled, but the
> sound slider (next to the little speaker) is slid all the way to the
> left. Firefox crashes very frequently with the plug-in installed,
> assumably when it encounters Flash content.
>
> The swfdec tests (sound, image) both run successfully and report all
> "OK", so I don't quite know how  to identify the problem with no sound;
> assumably this is related to the frequent crashes. (For the record,
> sound works fine with other applications.) I have tried building swfdec
> with mad or gstreamer disabled, but behavior seems to be the same.
>
I am guessing that it is a linking problem similar to bug 10829 [1] -
though that one is on FreeBSD. There are probably symbol clashes with
the JS functions.
The volume slider on Youtube not working is expected btw. Sound should
work nonetheless.

> I do *not* have the swfdec plugin for GStreamer installed (I have a
> feeling that I need that, but I don't know for sure). When I try to
> build gst-plugins-bad I am told that it cant find SWFDEC and that the
> plug-in will not be built. Then again, I have built swfdec with
> GStreamer disabled (--enable-gstreamer=no) to the same result, so I
> don't think I can blame my problems on GStreamer.
>
Nope, the Swfdec plugin in GStreamer has nothing to do with modern
Swfdec. It's still for the age-old version.

> Since others are using version 0.4.4 successfully, I assume that I have
> a library conflict. Can you give me some suggestions as to how I might
> proceed in debugging the problem?
>
There's two possible ways to approach the problem. One is to try and
get the Swfdec people to figure out what's wrong. That'd involve
filing a bug in our bugtracker, attaching stack traces etc. That may
be nasty as none of us
uses Suse or 64bit.
The other is to get OpenSuse to include Swfdec. I haven't had any
contact to Suse packagers, so I don't know how they handle it.
Probably some way of filing a request in their bugtracker? That way
you'd get someone in the know to figure out the right way to build the
plugin. And you could probably just copy what they did for your 10.2
install.

Benjamin

> Thanks!
>
> - John
>

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10829