video plugins for Firefox

[Gerald I. Evenden]

On Sunday 02 August 2009 11:21:49 pm Goh Lip wrote:
> Donn wrote:
> > On Sunday, 02 August 2009 23:03:07 Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
> >> A few months ago I tried to update plugins to handle some of the newer
> >> videos but had a great deal of difficulty and thought I had lost Firefox
> >> altogether.
> >
> > I'm also in video hell. My Hardy and Jaunty machines (i.e. all of them :)
> > ) have both gone on strike. It's like there's a Won't Play Your Flash
> > Videos union and they both joined one night on a whim.
> >
> > I have not found a good solution. I have tried various add-ons to
> > download flash videos, but they work on/off. The latest trick is trawling
> > the /tmp directory for videos and then copying them out for playing in
> > mplayer and company.
> >
> > Video sucks and it's confusing, and it sucks :D
> >
> > \d
>
> IMPORTANT: Applies only to 64 bits
>
> I remember some time back you (Donn) listed your about:plugins and if I
> recall correctly, there were 2 entries for flash plugins, one with
> libflashplayer.so and another with npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
>
> Please recheck by going to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and see if there are
> 1 or 2 flashplugins, there should be 1 only and it should be
> npwrapper.libflashplayer.so.  Delete (better still move away somewhere)
> the other libflashplayer.so and restart firefox. Hope it works.
>
> Gerald, was this also the case in yours? Older videos should also work
> in newer flash versions.
>
> Regards,
> Goh Lip

At this very moment my system has:

gie at charon:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$ ls|m
nphelix.so
nphelix.xpt
nppdf.so
npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
gie at charon:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$

Occasional videos on YouTube.com just have white screens and none of the 
videos on onion.com play.

It seems to be something more than just the npwrapper.

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