Bug 185936

Summary:	opera-9* + netscape-flash-9* doesn't play videos
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sven <sven.koehler>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	VERIFIED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	denilsonsa
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sven 2007-07-20 01:12:51 UTC

Hi,

i've got static opera 9.22 installed as well as netscape-flash 9.0.48.0-r1. I cannot view any youtube or google video. As well as any other video-playing flash.

Firefox works fine, Opera does not.

I don't think, it's actually a gentoo problem. But it's a problem, that gentoo-people should be aware of.



# emerge opera netscape-flash -vp

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/opera-9.22  USE="gnome qt-static spell" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1  0 kB 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-20 06:34:51 UTC

Try your luck w/ Opera folks, we've done what we could (Bug 127200).

Comment 2 Andreas Arens 2007-07-20 13:30:34 UTC

At least older flash player plugins could not handle composite enabled 
X displays very well. You might therefor also require the following export
that fixed flash on earlier firefox (and opera) for me.

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

Place early in the /usr/bin/opera script

Comment 3 Denilson Sá Maia 2007-07-26 12:33:25 UTC

As described in bug 127200 and in a ebuild message, adding /opt/netscape/plugins=2 to ~/.opera/pluginpath.ini solves this.

BUT, this still isn't the best solution. Bug 127200 comment 18 says that /opt/netscape/plugins/ path is deprecated. If so, why is libflashplayer still being installed there?

I think the actual fix to this bug is change netscape-flash ebuild to not install in /opt/netscape/plugins.

(I would reopen this bug if I could)

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-26 12:35:34 UTC

Please, complain upstream. It works just fine with any other browser using flash, we have zero control about Opera code.

Comment 5 Denilson Sá Maia 2007-07-26 12:38:23 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Please, complain upstream. It works just fine with any other browser using
> flash, we have zero control about Opera code.

But you have control about where to install plugins. And, like I said, Jeroen Roovers told us that /opt/netscape/plugins/ is deprecated. Why isn't it removed, then? (and the plugin placed on /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/)