[SOLVED] Firefox Flash

[Euralis]

I just downloaded fedora 11 and I must say, i am not pleased. Not to sound to ungrateful to the open source crew which put this together, but who in the heck bundles together an OS with a browser that does not work. Today I went on youtube and surprise, it cant play flash, so I updated my repositories to rpmfusion, then went about updating everything, installed java, and all sorts of "add-ons" to firefox (notably the vlc plugin); and congratulations, I got nowhere.

The nature of the following is that whenever I try to display any video, a big grey play button appears in the window that should be displaying the vid, or I just get a black screen in that same window. What is up with that? it also tells me in a box that:

Additional Plugins are requried to play this content. The following plugins are required: MPG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder
Sorenson Spark Video decoder

Im sure this is something simple, but after looking around, all the threads that address this issue are outdated; does anyone here have any idea what is wrong?

Thanks guys

[MikeTbob]

Check your package manager to see if you have Gnash installed. It's an open source "Flash" player and I have seen it interfere with Adobe Flash.

[Euralis]

well mikeTbob, I had Gnash, and removed it. You were right, it was interfering, but now instead of a big black window, I am back to the grey play icon which when i click on gives me a white box. What does that mean?

[MikeTbob]

Tell us which plugins you have installed in Firefox. Click on Tools>Add-ons...tell us what you've got listed here.

[Euralis]

DivX Web Player
IcedTea Java Web Browser Plugin
mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8
NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 1.3.0
Quicktime Plug-in 7.2.0
Quicktime Plug-in 7.4.5
Realplayer 9
Shockwave Flash
VLC Multimedia Plug-in
VLC Multimedia Plug-in (compatible; Totem 2.26.3)
Windows Media Player Plug-in
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)

[reed9]

There are two open source flash players, gnash and swfdec. Both can interefere with adobe flash. No idea if Fedora comes with them preinstalled or not, but the big grey play button is indicative that one or the other is installed. Make sure both are uninstalled to get adobe flash working.

Not to sound to ungrateful to the open source crew which put this together, but who in the heck bundles together an OS with a browser that does not work.

While I appreciate that it's frustrating when things don't work the way we want, the browser works fine, and rpmfusion is not an official repository. The Fedora Project has clearly stated their commitment to free software.

I don't know your level of experience with linux, and I totally get that many if not most people just want their stuff to work without hassle, and probably a lot of the fuss about free vs non-free software seems weird and esoteric. But projects like Fedora or Debian that maintain strict standards on not including proprietary software are really important, and I don't think we should point the finger at them if non-free stuff doesn't work quite the way we hope.

That said, if you're using a distro like Linux Mint that includes flash and other non-free out of the box, I do think it fair to be critical if it doesn't work correctly.

[Euralis]

okay, i got rid of both gnash and swfdec: the result is a bar asking me to download adobe flash apears. I download, go into su - mode and try to use yum to install. This is what I get

[root@zeta1 Michael]# yum install adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Examining adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
Marking adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package adobe-release-i386.noarch 0:1.0-1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ==============================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ==============================
Installing:
adobe-release-i386 noarch 1.0-1 /adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch 1.9 k

Transaction Summary
================================================== ==============================
Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 0 Package(s)

Total size: 1.9 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID f6777c67


Public key for adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm is not installed

Could anyone help me out on how exactly i get the data key validated? Is there some simple command?

[MikeTbob]

check this guide, it has a lot of good info on Fedora.
Personal Fedora 11 Installation Guide

[gruven]

If you are using 32 bit (i386):

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

If you are using 64 bit (amd64), then you will need the 64 bit version of flash, available here.

Instructions for the 64 bit version are here.

Fedora is very big on only providing free software out of the box, so no proprietary stuff unless you enable an unofficial repository.

[Euralis]

Well; I installed it, without a problem, but its still telling me to get the newest flash player. I have no idea what is up. Here is the proof.

[root@zeta1 Download]# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Local Package Process
Examining adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
Marking adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm to be installed
rpmfusion-free-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 3.8 kB 00:00
updates/metalink | 14 kB 00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package adobe-release-i386.noarch 0:1.0-1 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ==============================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ==============================
Installing:
adobe-release-i386 noarch 1.0-1 /adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch 1.9 k

Transaction Summary
================================================== ==============================
Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 0 Package(s)

Total size: 1.9 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch 1/1

Installed:
adobe-release-i386.noarch 0:1.0-1

Complete!

I'm going to read mikes installation guide now; but if anyone else has any ideas, by all means chime in

Thanks for all the help thus far