(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Walter Dnes]

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.

[watchdog]

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).

[watchdog]

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.

[sindi]

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).

[Walter Dnes]

[sindi]

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.

[Walter Dnes]

[sindi]

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.

[Walter Dnes]

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.

[Walter Dnes]

[sindi]

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.

[sindi]

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).

[Walter Dnes]

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.

[tallboy]

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

[watchdog]

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.