flash content on linux (solution)

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Re: flash content on linux (solution)

Unread post by Mæstro » 2023-01-31, 00:45

Feeding the command I have given to the terminal is enough to install Flash and make it work in Linux. Upon running it, open (or restart) Pale Moon, and it will recognise the plug-in automatically; you can check this in the add-ons menu. No further action is needed.

I cannot promise that this command would act as intended, or even predict how it would act, in OpenBSD. There might be some tutorial online on how to run Linux software in some Wine equivalent for OpenBSD 6+, but I cannot direct you to one. Anything I find would be something that looks half relevant I had found with Mojeek about which I would know nothing; you could search, and interpret the results, better than I could.
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Re: flash content on linux (solution)

Unread post by souxd » 2023-02-15, 16:45

Palemoon 32.0.0 64bits
NixOS 23.05

I installed the clean flash linux plugin on both

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~/.mozilla/plugins
~/.moonchild\ productions/pale\ moon/10hy5370.default/plugins
and even tried setting MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH but none of those attempts worked. Flash doesn't play :(

EDIT: just checked pluginreg.dat

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Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.18f:$
Arch:x86_64-gcc3:$

[PLUGINS]

[INVALID]
/home/souxd/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
1621028967000:$
/home/souxd/.moonchild productions/pale moon/10hy5370.default/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
1676478894000:$
Invalid? Why?

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Re: flash content on linux (solution)

Unread post by FranklinDM » 2023-02-16, 05:50

I'm running an Arch-based distro (EndeavourOS) and @job's solution works fine for me. My copy of the Flash Player plugin comes from AUR though.

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Re: flash content on linux (solution)

Unread post by souxd » 2023-02-16, 16:06

FranklinDM wrote:
2023-02-16, 05:50
I'm running an Arch-based distro (EndeavourOS) and @job's solution works fine for me. My copy of the Flash Player plugin comes from AUR though.
Okay, just tried with the AUR NPAPI plugin, same issue :?:
❯ cat .moonchild\ productions/pale\ moon/10hy5370.default/pluginreg.dat

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Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.18f:$
Arch:x86_64-gcc3:$

[PLUGINS]

[INVALID]
/home/souxd/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
1606257943000:$

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Re: flash content on linux (solution)

Unread post by FranklinDM » 2023-02-17, 12:19

I'm not entirely sure, but I think Pale Moon is detecting the wrong flash plugin binary? The one I installed from AUR was stored at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so. Try removing the copy of the flash player plugin from your home directory and check if it works.

These are the contents of my pluginreg.dat:

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Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.18f:$
Arch:x86_64-gcc3:$

[PLUGINS]
libflashplayer.so:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
32.0.0.465:$
1676104159000:0:0:0:$
Shockwave Flash 32.0 r0:$
Shockwave Flash:$
2
0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$
1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$

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Re: flash content on linux (solution)

Unread post by souxd » 2023-02-18, 15:05

FranklinDM wrote:
2023-02-17, 12:19
I'm not entirely sure, but I think Pale Moon is detecting the wrong flash plugin binary? The one I installed from AUR was stored at /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so. Try removing the copy of the flash player plugin from your home directory and check if it works.

These are the contents of my pluginreg.dat:

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Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.18f:$
Arch:x86_64-gcc3:$

[PLUGINS]
libflashplayer.so:$
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
32.0.0.465:$
1676104159000:0:0:0:$
Shockwave Flash 32.0 r0:$
Shockwave Flash:$
2
0:application/x-shockwave-flash:Shockwave Flash:swf:$
1:application/futuresplash:FutureSplash Player:spl:$
❯ cat .moonchild\ productions/pale\ moon/10hy5370.default/pluginreg.dat

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Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.18f:$
Arch:x86_64-gcc3:$

[PLUGINS]

[INVALID]
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
1676732574000:$
/home/souxd/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
1621028967000:$
Weird, i don't know what's happening? Is there a flag i should enable on palemoon to be able to use plugins?

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Re: flash content on linux (solution)

Unread post by newFlashPlayer » 2023-02-26, 20:04

I've found help at videolan.org.
On my OpenBSD box, I installed the package vlc-3.0.17.3p0.
I built 'npapi-vlc' from https://code.videolan.org/videolan/npap ... tree/3.0.x.
Then I put libvlcplugin.so in the directory ~/.mozilla/plugins.
Now, I can open and watch a sample .flv file.
It's working fine.
I can connect to my video security system, I can see the controller GUI,
but the 'Live View' window is blank, no video from the cameras.
It seems that there's a problem with the Flash Video streaming.
Anyone have any suggestion?
For the video security system, I'm using 'Lorex DDNS Service'
which requires Flash Player.
Lorex support do not want to provide any technical specifications.
Is there a test Flash Video Streaming web site I can use?
Thanks.

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Re: flash content on linux (solution)

Unread post by Mæstro » 2023-02-26, 20:39

I would have suggested Club Penguin Rewritten, but i have found out that the wharf rat had shut it down last year. Should someone else have created a private Club Penguin server, one could try that. I know none online.
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