flash ( With details and user test results)

Mon Jul 2 06:41:15 UTC 2007

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
"kalin mintchev" <kalin at el.net> wrote:

> > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:42:13 -0400
> > Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> RW writes:
> >>
> >> >  If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions,
> >> > the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers.
> >>
> >> 	This is flash-9, and not flash-7?
> >>
> >
> > Yes
> 
> can you use that flash7 to watch videos on the new cnn site and youtube?

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[ from freebsd-ports@ ]
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:34:28 +0200
Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou <walsimou at walsimou.com> wrote:

> kalin mintchev a écrit :
> > and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video?
> > i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other one
> > is marked as broken...
> > now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never been
> > able to see any of the videos on youtube....  what do i need?
> >
[...]

> >   
> I follow this howto (french howto) and have flash 9 working
> 
> http://oregnier.developpez.com/cours/unix/freebsd/plugins/firefox/nspluginwrapper/

ok.. this is quite an interesting thread. I had tried flash > 7 with native
ffox sometime last year. The answer was to give up on it and have linux-firefox
and the whole linux-* saga.

So I decided to give this a try again, with some mixed results. I double
checked what I was doing with the steps shown in the URL Gaye kindly provided,
it all checked out as expected.

Ups : ffox native still works better, to me, than linux-firefox : it's not such
a cpu hog, it feels more snappy. Flash9 works mostly, except in certain cases,
and in those cases, it's not fatal (ffox doesnt die)

Downs: Flash videos, such as those in video.google, youtube and others, load
(static image is shown, start streaming), play for about 1 second with video +
sound, and then they just dissapear from the browser, with errors from the
NSPluginWrapper.

Details follow, apologies for the lengthy email...

$ uname -a
FreeBSD ayiin.xxxxxxx  6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #10: Sun Jul  1 09:50:58
EST 2007     root at ayiin.xxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AYIIN  i386

Kernel + world updated on  Sun Jul  1 09:50:58 EST 2007 (EST = GMT +10)
Ports up to date.

Native ffox : firefox-2.0.0.4,1
Native JDK : diablo-jdk
Linux Flash 9 : www/linux-flashplugin9
Native Mplayer-plugin www/mplayer-plugin
plugin wrapper : www/nspluginwrapper

up to here we have jdk, mplayer running GREAT (which is better than my
experience in the past)

[betom at ayiin] [Mon Jul  2 15:22:36 2007]
/usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper
$ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins
Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
Install plugin /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so
  into /home/betom/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.nphelix.so
Install plugin /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Segmentation fault: 11

I then cleaned up all linux firefox left overs, run as root just in case.

[root at ayiin] [Mon Jul  2 15:54:00 2007]
~
# nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins
Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/plugins
Auto-install plugins from /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
Install plugin /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so
  into /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.nphelix.so
Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin
Install plugin /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)

nspluginwrapper -l 
cores with seg 10 or 11.

BUT installing /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so by hand
worked great. strange.

Anyway, this is what happens when I tested the flash plugin. The following is
the stderr from firefox (native), with my comments interspec'ed , beginining
with ###

[betom at ayiin] [Mon Jul  2 15:55:27 2007]
~
$ firefox
###
### Not sure what the msgs up to this point refer to - firefox-native without any plugin doesnt produce these messages at all
###

(Gecko:42617): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated function.  User modifications to the MIME database are no longer supported.

###
### Loaded a local .swf . It worked ok...then issued this msg.
###

*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed

###
### Reloaded the .swf, no problems this time.
###

###
### Went to video.google.com - clicked on one of the videos, randomly http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-708218345413567790 
### Video started loading, buzzing sound ( as if there was static in sound card), then video completelly blanked out ,as if it was removed from the page. Msgs showed:
###

(npviewer.bin:42668): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_resize: assertion `width > 0' failed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Write() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection closed

*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed
###
### repeated test with video.google.com
###
(npviewer.bin:42682): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_resize: assertion `width > 0' failed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
[MORE AND MORE OF THE SAME, CONTINUOSLY]
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed

### yes, the messages were non-stop while the video.google page was open - i hit back and got :
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed

###
### tried with youtube.com. 
### Flash loaded ok, simple flash stuff like the 'videos being watched now' worked fine.
### Clicking on the suggested videon on the top RHS started playing the video + sound, after 1 second, again:
### this happens with CPU spiking to 100%
###
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_NewStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
[MORE AND MORE OF THE SAME, CONTINUOSLY]
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Connection closed

###
### Hit back button, bang, NPP_Destroy
###
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_URLNotify() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPClass::Invalidate() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed

###
### Browsing around... non-video Flash objects. working fine
###
** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Write() wait for reply: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_New() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Write() wait for reply: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_SetWindow() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_SetWindow() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_New() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed

###
### Visited http://www.thegridlayer.com/ . Main Flash loads and dissapears within a second
### NO CPU spike.
###
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NP_Shutdown() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Write() wait for reply: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_DestroyStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_NewStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue()
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_GetValue() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_SetWindow() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_New() invoke: Connection closed

If anyone has any tests / changes to suggest, I'm happy to test :)

Thanks!!

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