Swfdec - Dec 2007 - youtube.com complains about old version on 64 bit ubuntu gutsy

I read on lwn.net that swfdec has support for watching youtube.com 
videos. Good work! I have not been able to get the Adobe 32-bit mozilla 
plugin working under 64-bit gutsy so I figured I'd give swfdec a go.

A quick search of the archives and bugzilla turns up nothing obviously 
similar to my problem.

Viewing this page:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Opqy5mFZM&feature=related

I get this error:

    Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of 
Adobe's Flash Player.

This seems like it ought to be something very simple to remedy. I 
believe this is the check which is failing:

	<script type="text/javascript">
		// <![CDATA[
		writeMoviePlayer("playerDiv");
		var to = new SWFObject("/version-check.swf", "checker",
"0", "0", "0", "#FFFFFF");
		to.write("checkerDiv");
		// ]]>
	</script>

I built swfdec 0.5 and swfdec-mozilla 0.5.5 from source tarballs on 
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

My laptop is a lenovo T60p.

tsqali >> uname -a
Linux tsqali 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:28:27 UTC 2007 
x86_64 GNU/Linux
tsqali >> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 7.10
Release:        7.10
Codename:       gutsy

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 
Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

P.S. Javascript IS enabled.

Is the plugin correctly installed? Entering about:plugins in the
browser's address bar will list the installed plugins.
If it's not lsited there, I think Gutsy is broken and requires plugins
to be installed into /usr/lib/firefox instead of the usual
/usr/lib/mozilla. You can achieve that by passing
--with-plugin-dir=/usr/lib/firefox/plugins to swfdec-mozilla's
configure.

Cheers,
Benjamin

On Dec 29, 2007 2:23 PM, La Monte H.P. Yarroll <piggy at netronome.com>
wrote:
> I read on lwn.net that swfdec has support for watching youtube.com
> videos. Good work! I have not been able to get the Adobe 32-bit mozilla
> plugin working under 64-bit gutsy so I figured I'd give swfdec a go.
>
> A quick search of the archives and bugzilla turns up nothing obviously
> similar to my problem.
>
> Viewing this page:
>
>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Opqy5mFZM&feature=related
>
> I get this error:
>
>     Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of
> Adobe's Flash Player.
>
> This seems like it ought to be something very simple to remedy. I
> believe this is the check which is failing:
>
>         <script type="text/javascript">
>                 // <![CDATA[
>                 writeMoviePlayer("playerDiv");
>                 var to = new SWFObject("/version-check.swf",
"checker", "0", "0", "0",
"#FFFFFF");
>                 to.write("checkerDiv");
>                 // ]]>
>         </script>
>
> I built swfdec 0.5 and swfdec-mozilla 0.5.5 from source tarballs on
> Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.
>
> My laptop is a lenovo T60p.
>
> tsqali >> uname -a
> Linux tsqali 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 05:28:27 UTC 2007
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> tsqali >> lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 7.10
> Release:        7.10
> Codename:       gutsy
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204
> Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11
>
> P.S. Javascript IS enabled.
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