[Swfdec] Can't use Mozilla plugin or play video with 0.8.2 / 0.9.2

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

Hi Jesse,

Jesse Zbikowski ha scritto:
> Hi, I built the 0.8.2 and 0.9.2 source tarballs but I can't view Flash
> content in Firefox.  In about:plugins I see:
> 
> Shockwave Flash
> 
>     File name: libswfdecmozilla.so
>     Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999
> 
> MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash 	Adobe Flash movie 	swf 	Yes
> application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash movie 	spl 	Yes
> 
> but on YouTube, etc. I don't see a player.  I can get the URL of the
> SWF and run it with swfplay from the command line, e.g.
> 
> swfplay http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/watch-vfl65425.swf
> 
> This gives me a player window with play button, volume control, etc.
> but it shows 0:00/0:00 with a black rectangle (no video) and pegs the
> CPU.  I can also use swfplay for the Mario Rush game listed on the
> Screenshots page, which works somewhat but also pegs the CPU and is
> too slow to actually use (after a few seconds I start losing lots of
> frames).  The same game works mostly OK with the official Adobe Flash
> 10 player on my computer (occasional CPU spikes but playable).  My
> system is Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex with Firefox 3.0.4, 3GHz Mobile
> Intel Pentium 4 CPU, and 1GB RAM.  I would appreciate it if someone
> could offer troubleshooting advice on how I can watch YouTube videos
> either in the browser or standalone.

Please check that you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, 
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ffmpeg and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly installed.
OTOH it's strange that you don't see the youtube player in firefox.

thanks,
riccardo