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Walter Dnes
Joined: 30 Dec 2016 Posts: 153
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Posted: Fri 13 Oct 2017, 00:51 Post subject:
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So the problem is not the machine. I took a look at the Gentoo ebuild (like Puppy .pet) of Adobe-Flash. Among the items listed for "NPAPI_RDEPEND" in the Gentoo ebuild is ">=sys-libs/glibc-2.4". I.e. it needs AT LEAST glibc-2.4 on Gentoo. Here's the full list. Ignore the "[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]" variable, which doesn't apply to Lucid Puppy.
Code: | NPAPI_RDEPEND="
dev-libs/atk[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
dev-libs/glib:2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
dev-libs/nspr[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
dev-libs/nss[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
media-libs/fontconfig[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
media-libs/freetype[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
>=sys-libs/glibc-2.4
x11-libs/cairo[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
x11-libs/gtk+:2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
x11-libs/libX11[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
x11-libs/libXcursor[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
x11-libs/libXext[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
x11-libs/libXrender[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
x11-libs/libXt[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
x11-libs/pango[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] |
Is there anything in the list that looks like a showstopper, besides glibc-2.4? According to Adobe's flashplayer-techspecs webpage http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/tech-specs.html the requirements for linux are...
YUM, TAR.GZ, RPM and APT packages for NPAPI and PPAPI
Latest versions of Firefox or Google Chrome
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 2022 Location: Italy
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Posted: Fri 13 Oct 2017, 01:15 Post subject:
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I also got aware of the problem. Using an old flashplayer (version 26.0.0.143) does not throw the problem. I am in puppy 4.31 (startdust).
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 2022 Location: Italy
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Posted: Fri 13 Oct 2017, 13:34 Post subject:
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In stretch puppy closing a tab in palemoon containing flash content throws an error about missing libvdpau_i965.so. No package provides the missing lib. Flashplayer 26.0 is also affected but in some ways palemoon let see the flash content.
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sindi
Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 1088 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
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Posted: Sun 15 Oct 2017, 16:06 Post subject:
Pale Moon with puppy linuxes - only 360p youtube html5 |
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Latest Pale Moon 27.5 in Lupu (Sulu) 2016 still plays youtube only 360p
Tahr with 27.4 same problem. Preferences, Content: - MSE stuff is enabled..
Seamonkey 2.4.6 and Chrome 41 offer all the resolutions but use too much RAM and I have 512MB. Smtube (I even tried version 17) only plays some Youtube videos. VLC from 2014 in Tahr does not help.
I would like 240p on older laptops and 480p or even 720p on 'new' ones (2007).
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Walter Dnes
Joined: 30 Dec 2016 Posts: 153
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Posted: Sun 15 Oct 2017, 17:12 Post subject:
Re: Pale Moon with puppy linuxes - only 360p youtube html5 |
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sindi wrote: | Latest Pale Moon 27.5 in Lupu (Sulu) 2016 still plays youtube only 360p
Tahr with 27.4 same problem. Preferences, Content: - MSE stuff is enabled.. |
Youtube seems to remember previous settings, possibly via cookies. If you last set at 360, it'll try 360 next time, by default. Try a 1080P video, and force it to 1080P, or whatever. Hopefully, it'll remember 1080P next time E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dC6uJDNf64
Click on the "cogged gear" at the bottom right of the menu (Where I have "HD")
Select "Quality"
What choices does it show?
Here's what I get
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sindi
Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 1088 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
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Posted: Sun 15 Oct 2017, 17:48 Post subject:
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I have Pale Moon set not to accept cookies (with Youtube NOT being an exception).
I tried editing about:config and html5 stopped working which I fixed by deleting
/root/.moon* (all the settings went back to default). Only options are auto 360p.
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Walter Dnes
Joined: 30 Dec 2016 Posts: 153
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Posted: Sun 15 Oct 2017, 21:12 Post subject:
Re: Youtube at 360p (no cookies) |
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sindi wrote: | I have Pale Moon set not to accept cookies (with Youtube NOT being an exception).
I tried editing about:config and html5 stopped working which I fixed by deleting
/root/.moon* (all the settings went back to default). Only options are auto 360p. |
I apologize in advance if this sounds repetitive. What do you get when you click on the work "Quality" on the roller coaster video? Wait for any commercial to finish first, because you can't tweak them.
Here's what the Youtube menu looks like, before clicking on the word "Quality". Also, do you get all 3 versions of "Big Buck Bunny" at the HTML5 test site http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html ?
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sindi
Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 1088 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
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Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2017, 11:05 Post subject:
pale moon only 360p youtube in lupu and tahr |
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I see ONLY auto 360p for all youtube videos.
At the html5 test site I see Big Bunny videos in webm and ogg format but not H264 (same combination as listed for FF 4).
Flash no longer works at Youtube with either of two add-ons (youtube flash video player is one). Has Google decided that Firefox cannot play it?
I have tried various versions of Flash 10, 11 and the latest gcflash for linux.
I don't know what Seamonkey identifies as - it does offer all the resolutions in html5. Palemoon is set to User Agent Mode Firefox and the only other option is Gecko..
I got notified of a PM but it is not there.
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Walter Dnes
Joined: 30 Dec 2016 Posts: 153
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Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2017, 12:29 Post subject:
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I may have mentioned this already. In "about:config" toggle media.libavcodec.allow-obsolete to true. If that doesn't help, I don't know what can.
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Walter Dnes
Joined: 30 Dec 2016 Posts: 153
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Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2017, 12:37 Post subject:
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sindi wrote: | I got notified of a PM but it is not there. |
Look carefully at the header near the top right corner of the page. If someone quotes all or part of a message you posted (like I'm doing now) you'll get numbers beside "Notifications". If someone sends you a PM, you'll get numbers beside "Notofications" and "Private messages". It's a bit confusing at first.
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sindi
Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 1088 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
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Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2017, 13:23 Post subject:
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Thanks for explaining that if I am quoted it emails me to notify me of a private message.
I use lynx (nongraphical) for the forum. I switched to Pale Moon to download your jpegs and access the link.
I should have been notified of a reply to my post not a PM.
I wonder if it is just Puppy Linux that works only at 360p with Pale Moon. I will drag out an XP computer test with.
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sindi
Joined: 16 Aug 2009 Posts: 1088 Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
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Posted: Mon 16 Oct 2017, 16:14 Post subject:
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Setting obsolete codec true did not help. Still will not play flash video.
I will attempt to download a video then play it.
Windows 7 can play youtube at 720p with Pale Moon but is jerky full screen (with a whopping 2GB RAM and my fastest laptop from 2007).
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Walter Dnes
Joined: 30 Dec 2016 Posts: 153
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Posted: Wed 18 Oct 2017, 22:34 Post subject:
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I mentioned this in a reply to someone else on Friday 13th. The Gentoo equivalant of a "pet" is called an "ebuild". The ebuild for downloading and installing the latest Adobe-Flash requires ">=sys-libs/glibc-2.4", i.e. glibc version 2.4 or higher. This may be a problem for Puppy linux.
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tallboy

Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 1767 Location: Drøbak, Norway
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Posted: Thu 19 Oct 2017, 00:21 Post subject:
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Is there a different location for the flash-player lib in Gentoo? Do you have to use an ebuild to install it? If you download and unpack the flash_player_npapi_linux.i386.tar.gz, the contents can be just moved or copied into their respective folders. In Lucid 5.2.8.7, the libflashplayer.so goes to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and the other files go to /usr/bin/, /usr/lib/ and /usr/share/, as shown in the attached /usr/ directory in the flash-player package. Depending on the distro, there may be a demand for restarting X and the WM to make things work.
My own flash-player plugin version 10-something is kept for emergencies only, so it is usually disabled.
I have switched back to my former PaleMoon 27.4.2 setup, because I have a problem in 27.5.1 with some websites with no response to mouseclicks, and no functional login window. I also had a funny problem with Youtube; no functional back and forward arrows! Impossible to replay a movie!
I am trying to find out if there are some 'self-made' modifications related to the latest version which make things go bad.
tallboy
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watchdog
Joined: 28 Sep 2012 Posts: 2022 Location: Italy
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Posted: Thu 19 Oct 2017, 00:27 Post subject:
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I'll survive without the flash plugin. I seldom use it e and I use the "Ask for activate" option. In puppy one could use an old version of the flash plugin for emergency use.
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