Swfdec - Dec 2008 - Can't use Mozilla plugin or play video with 0.8.2 / 0.9.2

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.

Thanks in advance,
Jesse Z.

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

Hi Riccardo, thanks for your response.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Riccardo Magliocchetti
<riccardo.magliocchetti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please check that you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good,
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ffmpeg and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly installed.
I have gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, gstreamer-0.10-plugins-ugly and
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg.  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg includes

/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so
/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpostproc.so

gstreamer0.10-plugins-ffmpeg is also mentioned on the Wiki so maybe
this package has a different name in Ubuntu 8.10.

I see from strace that swfplay succeeds in opening all of the 59
shared libraries it looks for.  It doesn't try to open any codecs,
only these two gstreamer libraries:

/usr/lib/libgstpbutils-0.10.so.0
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0

This looks like the famous H264 issue where all videos encoded as H264
don't work Swfdec. Though 0.8.2/0.9.2 aren't supposed to peg the CPU
with it, but just do nothing.
Someone said adding &fmt=22 to the youtube URL is supposed to
workaround that issue, I've never tried it myself though.

Do other video sites work?

Cheers,
Benjamin


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Jesse Zbikowski
<embeddedlinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jesse Z.
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