Bug 473084 – x11-libs/libvdpau: the flashplayer anti-blue-people hack doesn't work on www-client/opera www-client/qupzilla

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michał Górny 2013-06-12 10:51:50 UTC]

The:

  enable_flash_uv_swap=1

hack in vdpau_wrapper.conf doesn't seem to affect Opera. I guess that's because the hack simply looks for 'libflashplayer' in /proc/self/cmdline. In Opera, the command-line mentions 'operapluginwrapper-*' instead, with no reference to the actual plugin name.

I'm not sure who's at most fault here, I have no idea if anybody wants to fix it. Adobe should've fixed their screwup long ago and we're letting them get away with it by working it around on our side. Opera is discontinued anyway, so probably there's no point in changing anything with the way it loads plugins.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-06-12 14:18:24 UTC]

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0)
> Opera is discontinued anyway, so probably there's no point in changing anything
> with the way it loads plugins.

Apparently they're working on Opera 15.

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2013-06-12 14:26:08 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> (In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0)
> > Opera is discontinued anyway, so probably there's no point in changing anything
> > with the way it loads plugins.
> 
> Apparently they're working on Opera 15.

But I doubt it will retain its own plugin system.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-21 19:51:09 UTC]

Created attachment 353790 [details, diff]
Check /proc/self/maps for libflashplayer references

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-27 14:02:16 UTC]

Created attachment 354314 [details, diff]
v2: break when done

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-27 15:00:04 UTC]

Comment on attachment 354314 [details, diff]
v2: break when done

This one doesn't work as I intended it. Am I getting the logic wrong?

[Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-08-11 22:51:05 UTC]

Still applies to 0.7 and still fixes the smurf issue...

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-09-19 14:50:04 UTC]

@Doug: would upstream be interested at all in this?

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-12 19:52:34 UTC]

I have sent the patch to aplattner at nvidia dot com, too.

[Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-13 00:26:23 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #8)

Apparently that should have gone to some mailing list instead and git-formatted. Which I hope I have succeeded in doing...

[Comment 10 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-15 12:48:33 UTC]

There appear to be some existential kinks to work out as to the original workaround for the Flash bug.

[Comment 11 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-12-05 16:57:19 UTC]

Created attachment 364678 [details, diff]
0001-Add-a-special-check-for-the-Opera-browser.patch

[Comment 12 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-06-13 13:50:44 UTC]

Found a few more.

[Comment 13 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-06-13 13:52:30 UTC]

The patch got lost in an argument over finding the perfect solution to an already hackish problem.

[Comment 14 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2015-09-06 04:13:46 UTC]

Reassign to the maintainer.

[Comment 15 Stephan Hartmann (RETIRED) 2020-12-17 19:22:01 UTC]

Most likely not needed anymore.