Bug 189833 - net-www/netscape-flash beta "Moviestar" h.264 support
Bug#: 189833 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: enhancement Priority: P5
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: lack@gentoo.org Reported By: gnto@woox.net
Component: Ebuilds
URL:  http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/08/h_dot_two_sixty_four.html
Summary: net-www/netscape-flash beta "Moviestar" h.264 support
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2007-08-22 13:42 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-08-22 13:42 0000 
New beta from Adobe that includes hardware acceleration fullscreen, h.264, aac
etc.

Reproducible: Always

------- Comment #1 From ra 2007-08-22 13:44:26 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=128872) [details]
flash update 1 beta support

------- Comment #2 From Thomas S. Howard 2007-08-25 15:19:35 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=129162) [details]
Modified beta flash update ebuild

Renamed w/ correct upstream version.  Docs are installed now.

------- Comment #3 From Vlad-Mihai Sima 2007-09-03 14:47:38 0000 ------- 
The SRC_URI points to an rpm, but I can't see rpm as a dependency (and because
of that I am having problems). Is this correct ?

------- Comment #4 From Jesse Adelman 2007-09-03 23:38:49 0000 ------- 
Why not grab the .tar.gz which is available as seen in this bug's URL above and
not the RPM? :)

------- Comment #5 From Thomas S. Howard 2007-09-04 23:06:32 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Why not grab the .tar.gz which is available as seen in this bug's URL above and
> not the RPM? :)
> 
That's from the current stable ebuild, which this is just a modification of;
see bug #185141 for how it ended up using rpm.

One reason, though, is that the rpm has the docs and all that.  I'm not really
sure if the URI problems mentioned in the above bug still apply.

------- Comment #6 From Jim Ramsay 2007-09-05 19:07:59 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #5)
> I'm not really sure if the URI problems mentioned in the above bug
> still apply. 

The good news is that the tarball actually has a (semi-)useful version number
attached to it, so in this case there's no reason to use the RPM.

The bad news is that I have given this a try, and have had some odd problems
with it.  for example, if you go into a flash movie, right-click, and go into
"Settings", good luck trying to close the dialog!

So, I have checked in a tar.gz-based ebuild into the tree *but* it is package
masked because of this flaky behaviour noted above.  If you want it, you'll
have to put the following line in your /etc/portage/package.unmask:

=net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.60.0_beta082207

Enjoy.  If you dare.

------- Comment #7 From Frédéric COIFFIER 2007-09-18 12:17:14 0000 ------- 
This new version of netscape-flash is unusable with Konqueror 3.x

------- Comment #8 From Jim Ramsay 2007-09-18 14:49:59 0000 ------- 
(In reply to comment #7)
> This new version of netscape-flash is unusable with Konqueror 3.x

All the more reason to keep it in p.mask.  Thank you for the report!