[wellylug] flash issues (was Critical Review of Karmic Koala)

[Cliff Pratt]

Roger Searle wrote:
> Cliff Pratt wrote:
>> What issues do you have with Flash? I see a massive start button
>> that wasn't there before upgrading to KK and some sites don't work
>> properly - FarmTown in Facebook being one of them. They seem to get
>> stuck and the images become 'seperated' into (presumably) their
>> programmed components eg a status bar doesn't work and has the bar
>> and the components one under the other.
>> 
> 64bit installs, one upgrade, one fresh install, no sound on either.
>  Finding an easy solution to one (linking a couple of files) had me 
> surprised (I shouldn't have been) that it wasn't the solution on the
>  other, which ended up requiring the installation of some pulseaudio
>  package(s).  Both situations were solved by some quick googling, and
> I'm not too concerned with understanding what/why they worked or
> didn't in the first place, only that there is now sound, so apologies
> to anyone else who may have a similar situation.  Google knows lots
> and lots about this topic, I've often not had luck solving past
> issues with flash sound and it has resulted in decisions to install
> 32bit more than once.
> 
> Progress is certainly being made on various fronts, great to have
> seen since KK release that with firefox now at v3.5, first visits a
> page with flash, it does actually manage to find and install the
> right plugin.
> 
> TVNZ news and On Demand wouldn't display video, have discovered this
>  morning that it is the Adblock Plus plugin that was getting in the
> way due to the ad they serve up at the beginning of each video (so is
> not flash-related).  Now for the first time, I have everything 
> multimedia-related functioning - YAY! <http://tvnz.co.nz/video/faq>
> 
I solved the major problems by ensuring that I was using the correct 
latest version of flash player from Adobe. This involved removing 
swfdec-mozilla and moving aside the old versions of the plugin.

Cheers,

Cliff