Re: [Gnash-dev] After upgrading to Firefox 24, YouTube videos never load

Thank you for your input.

>Check which media handler / sound handler you're using...

Versions:

Chromium: Version 28.0.1500.71 Ubuntu 12.04 (28.0.1500.71-0ubuntu1.12.04.1)
Firefox: 24.0
Gnash: Gnash 0.8.10 (release_0_8_10-21522-2e609a6)

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Build options
   Renderers: agg cairo
   Hardware Acceleration: none
   GUI: GTK
   Media handlers: gst ffmpeg
   Configured with: CFLAGS=-Wall -g -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -O2 CXXFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,--no-add-needed --host=i686-linux-gnu --build=i686-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-testsuite --without-swfdec-testsuite --without-ming --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-rpath --enable-cygnal --enable-python --enable-jemalloc --enable-media=gst,ffmpeg --enable-gui=gtk,qt4,dump --enable-renderer=agg,cairo --enable-docbook --enable-extensions=fileio,lirc,mysql --with-npapi-plugindir=/usr/lib/gnash --with-plugins-install=system --enable-shared=yes
   CXXFLAGS: -Wall -g -O2          -W     -Wall     -Wcast-align     -Wcast-qual     -Wpointer-arith     -Wreturn-type     -Wnon-virtual-dtor     -Wunused      -fvisibility-inlines-hidden

address@hidden:~$ ffmpeg --version
ffmpeg version 0.8.6-4:0.8.6-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the Libav developers
built on Apr 2 2013 17:00:59 with gcc 4.6.3

Gecko Media Player 1.0.4 "Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer"
Shockwave Flash - Version: 10.1 r999.<br>Gnash 0.8.10, the GNU SWF Player.
These are for both Firefox and Chromium, both as installed by either the Lubuntu 12.04 distribution or by me - nothing altered.

I know that there are releases of Gecko later than this - 1.0.8 being the latest official release - but 1.0.4 is what is in the repositories for [L]ubuntu 12.04. [In fact, I tried to download/install 1.0.8, but even after adding the correct PATH --> the gcc compiler, the install still could not either find the compiler, or didn't like what it found, I don't recall which...] It is possible that there is something that the later versions of Gecko need that are not in my distro version, and that this is why the version seems stuck at 1.0.4 ...

>Enable verbose logging and keep an eye on the log file. I did turn on logging for gnash, and checked all the boxes. This was a mistake - the log file created was at least 2GB, and brought my system to a crawl - it was quite a while before I managed to correct the situation. I turned off all but the two error checkboxes, and apparently there were no errors to log, as there was no file produced... >Try running gnash from the commandline. Direct SWF url for youtube has >the form http://www.youtube.com/v/<video_id>address@hidden:~$ gnash http://www.youtube.com/v/watch?v=nwV1xJu8qqM WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-dClSK1/pkcs11: No such file or directory Could not load movie 'http://www.youtube.com/v/watch?v=nwV1xJu8qqM'; Error: Could not load movie! address@hidden:~$ ls -Hal /tmp/keyring-dClSK1 total 216 drwx------ 2 scott scott 4096 Oct 16 10:54 . drwxrwxrwt 33 root root 212992 Oct 16 12:02 .. srwxrwxr-x 1 scott scott 0 Oct 16 10:54 control srwxrwxr-x 1 scott scott 0 Oct 16 10:54 ssh where: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 30 2012 tmp -> /data/scott/Tmp drwxrwxrwt 34 root root 212992 Oct 16 12:17 Tmp drwx------ 2 scott scott 4096 Oct 16 10:54 keyring-dClSK1 are the intermediate directories (in case this info is somehow useful...) >Try a different media handler.I may do that... someone (somewhere) mentioned vlc. If I don't have another answer, I will try that - can one have two plugins installed, and deactivate one of them in order to try the other (and the reverse, of course)? The wierdest thing for me, is that all worked fine before... then I could not do it in Firefox... and now I cannot also do it in Chromium. Nothing changed (I think), except for installing the latest Firefox. -Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandro Santilli <address@hidden>
To: scott092707 <address@hidden>
Cc: gnash-dev <address@hidden>
Sent: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 11:39 am
Subject: Re: [Gnash-dev] After upgrading to Firefox 24, YouTube videos never load

Check which media handler / sound handler you're using (it's in Help->About).
Enable verbose logging and keep an eye on the log file.
Try a different media handler.
Try running gnash from the commandline. Direct SWF url for youtube
has the form http://www.youtube.com/v/<video_id>



--strk;

From:	scott092707
Subject:	Re: [Gnash-dev] After upgrading to Firefox 24, YouTube videos never load
Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:35:30 -0400 (EDT)