A present for you all... GPL Flash Plugin!

[Olaf Olson]

Dr. Sacco,

I made another attempt to understand what you wrote here. I am using 
Firefox, not Mozilla, but I assumed that this would function similarly. 
Perhaps I was mistaken.

Anyway, I downloaded the .so file (the one that Daniel Gimplevich 
suggested, from http://gplflash.sf.net), unzipped it, and placed it n 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. I set the permissions. I went to my home 
directory, but had a slight twist here. mine is in 
~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins. I deleted pluginreg.dat and fired up firefox.

First, I can't find any place that has about plugins. The tools menu 
talks about extensions, but no word about plugins.

I checked pluginreg.dat and I see this:

Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.08:$

[PLUGINS]
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so:$
:$
1075168137000:1:1:$
The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that 
are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.:$
Default Plugin:$
1
0:*:All types:.*:$
/usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1/plugins/libnullplugin.so:$
:$
1097759731000:1:9:$
The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that 
are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.:$
Default Plugin:$
1
0:*:All types:.*:$

This suggests that it is looking in the directories listed for plugins. 
It's not seeing anything except libnulplugin.so, else it SHOULD list the 
other .so files in that directory. One of the listed items is 
javaplugin_oji.so, but that doesn't show up in my pluginreg.dat file, 
either. Odd. Java stuff still seems to work.

I am using
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10.1

Which is Firefox the browser reloaded, version 1.0 Preview release.

So... Any suggestions as to why I can't seem to make this connect. 
Better yet, any suggestions on how to make it Flash?

Thanks in advance,

Olaf
Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:

>Linc,
>
>Let's look at mozilla.
>
>* unzip the plugin and place it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>
>* set the permissions to 755
>
>	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 364946 Dec 24 20:18 npflash.so
>
>* exit mozilla
>
>* in your home directory remove
>	~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat [it will be regenerated]
>
>* fire up mozilla
>
>* check about plugins.
>
>Here is what I see...
>
>        Shockwave Flash
>        
>                File name: npflash.so
>                Flash Movie player Version 0.4.10 compatible with
>                Shockwave Flash 4.0 
>                
>                Shockwave is a trademark of Macromedia®
>                
>                Author : Olivier Debon 
>                
>                
>        
>        MIME Type
>        Description
>         Suffixes
>         Enabled
>        application/x-shockwave-flash
>        Flash
>        Plugin
>        swf
>        Yes
>        application/x-futuresplash
>        Future
>        Splash
>        spl
>        Yes
>        
>
>-Joseph
>================================================================================
>        
>        
>        On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 22:02, Linc Fessenden wrote:
>  
>
>>        Christopher Murtagh wrote:
>>        > On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 20:59 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
>>        > 
>>        >>I just uploaded a zip file containing a version of the flash  plugin
>>        >>that "works". Unfortunately, it was too large [192K]  so it is waiting
>>        >>review by the list moderator.
>>        > 
>>        > 
>>        >  Rather than ok it and send an attachment to the list I've put it here:
>>        > 
>>        > http://open.mcgill.ca/mirror/ydl/contrib/npflash.zip
>>        > 
>>        > Cheers,
>>        > 
>>        > Chris
>>        > (YDL-General list admin)
>>        
>>        One quick question..  How do I get it installed?  I put it in every 
>>        plugin directory I can find - both mozilla and firefox and it doesn't 
>>        show up with an about:plugins..  Help?
>>    
>>
>        -- 
>        joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net
>
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