FS#24348 - [Epiphany] Flashplugin does not work

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Michael (SiD) - Thursday, 19 May 2011, 08:02 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 03 October 2011, 13:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

If I try to play flash content (e.g. on Youtube) Epiphany reports the Flashplayer is to old and need to be updated. The system is up to date. In Firefox and Midori the Flashplugin works.
There are no errors/warnings in the log files and if I start Epiphany from a terminal there are no error Messages, just the Message in the epiphany window that the Flashplayer is to old.


Additional info:
* package version(s)

epiphany 3.0.2-1


Steps to reproduce:

Install Epiphany and flashplugin, try to play a video on e.g. Youtube
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 03 October 2011, 13:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Flash on Epiphany i686 is not supported. Use nspluginwrapper if you still want to make this working.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 19 May 2011, 08:37 GMT
is normally. flashplugin is blacklisted because epiphany is a gtk3 application and flashplugin is gtk2 and they don't have support for running plugins in a separate process like chromium or firefox.

the fun part is that you can use html5 feature from youtube or gnash-gtk
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 19 May 2011, 14:49 GMT
Flash is GTK2, Epiphany is GTK3. Those won't mix. The only solution to get Flashplugin working with epiphany is by wrapping is with nspluginwrapper as we do with Flash on x86_64 using the multilib repository.
Comment by Felix (Wey) - Saturday, 18 June 2011, 11:48 GMT
I'm not familiar with the way nspluginwrapper works, but i modified its PKGBUILD as in the attachment and were able build and install it on i686. I issued nspluginwrapper -v -a -n -i and epiphany was able to play flash videos.

Would it be possible to add an official i686 package for nspluginwrapper?
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Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Saturday, 18 June 2011, 13:14 GMT
feel free to add it on gnome wiki.

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