Flash troubles...

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Wednesday 19 September 2007, john d. herron wrote:
>>Some 15 days ago I sent to the list the following  'help!' call:
>>
>>"I recently re-installed the Flash 9 player from Adobe's site. I had
>>first installed it about 1 month ago and it worked fine, but then, one
>>day, it just stopped cold.
>>Now, as I was attempting to load a videoclip on CNN's website, this
>>message came up:
>>"The video timed out attempting to play.
>>Please ensure that you do not have any Flash Blocking plugins active."
>>What would be considered 'Flash blocking plugins' and, if I find any,
>>how can I deactivate them?"
>>
>>Someone who replied to my message (and I somehow managed to lose that
>>reply: please forgive me...) wanted to know whether I'd tried out to
>>view video files on other site, e.g. YouTube.
>>Well, I did try a number of other sites (YouTube, Eurosport.com,
>>jovianarchives.com, ...) with no success. However, on these attempts I
>>got no messages of any kind: only the relevant page featuring a frozen
>>video window.
>>By the way: I'd installed the Flash 9 player from the Adobe website
>>because Adept only offered Flash 7, which is apparently not supported on
>>the sites of many providers of video material.
>>
>>Any help will be thankfully appreciated
>
>I can't offer any help, but I can confirm that exact problem here, on FC6
>
>Whatever it is, it should also fix it for me.
>
Playing around here with rpms of the various flashplayer9 releases, I find 
that 9-r60 does this, 9-r48 works but may need to hit the second story before 
it does, and an even older 9-r31 also works about half the time.

After finding the r48 worked, where 6 weeks ago it didn't on a cnn video, I 
put 9-r60 back in and got this error message again.  As a beta, I wonder if 
adobe put an expiration in it.  With this binary only crap, who knows...

Anyway, I'm working here with the 9-r48 version of libflashplayer.so 
installed.

>>jdh
>>_________________
>>kubuntu 7.04 on
>>i586 w/ 512 MB
>
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Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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