Hi All, I've tried swfdec on Fedora 8 x86_64 without much luck. I originally used the rpms from livna. I primarily want it just to view youtube videos which from various blog posts I thought worked. It seems to detect the flash but i just get a white background (it does detect a plugin as you don't get the jigsaw piece). So i recompiled the rpm on my machine just to make sure. No difference.
Hi, On Nov 8, 2007 2:19 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:> I've tried swfdec on Fedora 8 x86_64 without much luck. I originally > used the rpms from livna. I primarily want it just to view youtube > videos which from various blog posts I thought worked. It seems to > detect the flash but i just get a white background (it does detect a > plugin as you don't get the jigsaw piece). >There have been reports from Gentoo on IRC about the same thing. It turned out they used Xorg 7.3 and that has a bug in it that prevented the videos from being shown. According to them Xorg 7.2 and Xorg git work fine. So if you use Xorg 7.3, you may be hit by the same issue. In that case no Swfdec recompile will help you. I don't know more about this, but maybe someone who was affected can answer in more detail?> From there I checked out a copy from the git repo but i can't compile > it due to the error below (either as a rpm or from straight source). >It's a known problem that rpm adds a -Wall flag. Unfortunately this reactivates a warning that we explicitly turned off by using -Wno-unused-parameter. If your non-rpm compile gets hit by the same issue, you probably have -Wall in your CFLAGS, too. To get around this, you have to add -Wno-unused-parameter to your CFLAGS _after_ the -Wall. Alternatively, you can add -Wno-error to get around gcc aborting on warnings. Cheers, Benjamin
> Hi All, > > I've tried swfdec on Fedora 8 x86_64 without much luck. I originally > used the rpms from livna. I primarily want it just to view youtube > videos which from various blog posts I thought worked. It seems to > detect the flash but i just get a white background (it does detect a > plugin as you don't get the jigsaw piece). > > So i recompiled the rpm on my machine just to make sure. No difference. > > From there I checked out a copy from the git repo but i can't compile > it due to the error below (either as a rpm or from straight source). > > Anyway I'm just wondering what the status of swfdec is on x86_64 > platforms and if there's any debugging I can do to get it working?Well the git repo has been compiling and running extremely well of late but I get no audio. Being Fedora 8 I'm not sure if this is because of pulse audio, a codec issue or if its just not supported as yet. If I use the moz plugin to save the .flv file and then try and play it with swfdec-player I get this error SWFDEC: ERROR: swfdec_resource.c(265): swfdec_resource_loader_target_parse: no decoder found for format so I think it must be a codec issue but as it doesn't return any details of the codec and I know nothing about the codecs that flv uses or youtube for that matter. Can anyone shed any light on this? Also is there a way to 'autoplay' a swf so you don't get a big grey play button on all flash component on websites? Other than that its coming along nicely. Pete