Getting Shockwave Flash to work

[Calum]

hello, i don have netscape installed, i have galeon, konqueror, mozilla and phoenix. I want them all to be able to use the shockwave plugin.

I have copied the .so and the .class file into the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder and i have set konqueror to autodetect plugins, and the mozilla plugins directory is in its search path for such.

My shockwave plugin was only a few hundred kb in size, and contained a .so file and a .class file and two readmes.

they claim i need netscape to make this work.

How do i make it work, and what the real lowdown?

thanks.

[Calum]

no wait, i went to rpmfind.net and got the rpm for mandrake and now the shockwave plugin works in mozilla and galeon BUT not konqueror (even though i set it to scan for plugins in the right dir all the time) and not in PHOENIX either! to be expected since phoenix has NO settings to speak of, is it supposed to support plugins yet? i thought it might, baing mozilla as it is...

well then, any thoughts?

thanks guys, i know it is painful watching me taking my first steps in online linux!  

[Calum]

yeah but i think it needs netscape. mozilla and galeon doing flash still, they are both 'netscape compatible', however even though konqueror is still avidly watching the mozilla plugins, and even though both the rpm and the hand installed versions of the plugin are showing up, it still does not display flash.

I think it will not work in konqueror until i install netscape. I have netscape 6, but it seems to just be a tar.gz file containing the full installed dir of netscape 6. I unzipped it and put it in /usr/bin/ but it is not running. i will need to delete it again. I don want netscape anyway...

[voidmain]

Flash works for me in Konqueror. But I'm on RedHat and have also installed "plugger".  Do you have the "plugger" RPM installed? I don't believe plugger is required for flash though. It's more for other video and dound files (Quicktime, MPEG, AU, WAV, MIDI, WAV, etc, etc, etc)...

[ September 28, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[TheQuirk]

It can run Quicktime?

[voidmain]

http://www.dbhome.dk/antialias/konqueror-quicktime2.png

[beltorak0]

btw, calum, the new shockwave flash will hang mozilla in kde if another app is using the sound driver at the same time.  If you experience this problem, "artsdsp mozilla %u" instead of "mozilla %u".  You can get to this setting by right clicking a ".html" file and select "edit file types".  then "edit" the mozilla entry.  also, but right clicking the mozilla icon on the quick launch bar and selecting preferences, then go to the execute tab.  this will force mozilla to use the kde sound driver instead of allowing flash to try to access the sound hardware directly.

-t.

[flap]

I can't get the flash plugin working in konqueror either. If I browse to a local .swf file in konq it will play, but for some reason it won't play them when they're embedded in web pages.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by flap:
I can't get the flash plugin working in konqueror either. If I browse to a local .swf file in konq it will play, but for some reason it won't play them when they're embedded in web pages.

Some flash pages require you to have JavaScript and Java turned on (not to mention installed). Could this be your problem?

[flap]

Ah possibly; I don't have java installed. I did wonder about that, although none of the flash pages I've tried have worked. I'll have to try once I've fixed my KDE problem (see other thread.)

[Calum]

hello again all, i don't have plugger, i will have to see about getting it,is it free?

in the meantime i installed a java2 runtime environment and i now have shockwave flash installed in mozilla and galeon. still not working in phoenix or konqueror, but i prefer galeon anyway.

i tried to install netscape 6 from the cover CD of an issue of Australian PC from last year but it seemed to be some hacked version with odd config files, so no joy, it wouldn't compile.

Now. What about macromedia director? how do we gqet them to work? example: when i visit this site with linux2.4/galeon:

http://workmanweb.com/fliersclub/simulator2.html

i get a message telling me to download the director plugin, then i get redirected to a page telling me to upgrade from netscape 6 to netscape 6.1!!!   :confused:    :confused:    :confused:    :confused:    :confused:  

what's the deal?

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
hello again all, i don't have plugger, i will have to see about getting it,is it free?

in the meantime i installed a java2 runtime environment and i now have shockwave flash installed in mozilla and galeon. still not working in phoenix or konqueror, but i prefer galeon anyway.

i tried to install netscape 6 from the cover CD of an issue of Australian PC from last year but it seemed to be some hacked version with odd config files, so no joy, it wouldn't compile.

Now. What about macromedia director? how do we gqet them to work? example: when i visit this site with linux2.4/galeon:

http://workmanweb.com/fliersclub/simulator2.html

i get a message telling me to download the director plugin, then i get redirected to a page telling me to upgrade from netscape 6 to netscape 6.1!!!     :confused:        :confused:        :confused:        :confused:        :confused:    

what's the deal?

You will never get a proprietary format to work that requires a proprietary plugin unless there is a version of the plugin available for Linux. Unless there is an app capable of handling that format in which case it can be added to the plugger configuration and that app could be spawned by plugger.

Flash is a separate plugin (plugger does not handle flash, the Macromedia Flash plugin for Linux handles it directly). You can download it from Macromedia. I have it working on Mozilla with no trouble (but I also downloaded and installed Java from Sun as I believe some flash pages also require Java).

Plugger handles *many* other formats. But it relies on other system apps to provide that functionality, and those apps must also be installed before the format can be viewed/played.

Plugger was included on the RedHat 8.0 CDs although it was not installed by default, nor does it appear on their new software installation utility. But you can install it using the rpm command. It was also included in earlier versions. The web site for plugger is here:

http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html

And if you get all the plugins working in Mozilla/Netscape the way you want they should also work in Konqueror by running the "nspluginscan" (there is a button to scan plugins in the Konqueror options menu).

Here is a list of plugins that I show when I do a "Help->About Plugins" in Mozilla:

    File name: plugger.so
Plugger version 4.0, written by Fredrik H