Media Problems with Firefox after Fedora 12 Upgrade

[LazarusLong]

I've recently upgraded to Fed. 12. Prior to the upgrade I had no problem watching videos on YouTube and listening to Pandora. Silverlight/Moonlight was also installed so my wife could watch back episodes of Grey's Anatomy on the abc website even.

After the upgrade videos like those on YouTube start to load then show an empty grey or black box. The Pandora widget also goes blank once it's done loading. The abc website tells me that my platform is not supported (this was the message my wife got before I installed silverlight).

Any ideas? Appreciate it.

[LazarusLong]

As near as I can tell, this is only happening with sites that use Flash or Moonlight.

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling flash-plugin, but have had no success.

[LazarusLong]

Further information:

Ran firefox with debug ($firefox -debug) and looked at the output when I tried to open a video in YouTube:

*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Write() wait for reply: Connection reset by peer
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2239):invoke_NPP_DestroyStream: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2123):invoke_NPP_URLNotify: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2167):invoke_NPP_NewStream: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2123):invoke_NPP_URLNotify: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad0922b8 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad0922b8 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad0922b8 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad0922b8 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:1977):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad0922b8 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0xad0922b8 is no longer valid!

Also, I checked the Preferences::Applications associations page. Flash video is set to 'Always Ask'. There's no option for using Shockwave Flash, even though the latest version is installed. I don't know if this is part of the problem or not. I just found it curious.

[LazarusLong]

About the only thing I can think to do at this point is uninstall/reinstall firefox and see if that fixes the problem. Just checking back here to see if anyone else may have an idea before I fire this off.

[deskartez]

About the only thing I can think to do at this point is uninstall/reinstall firefox and see if that fixes the problem. Just checking back here to see if anyone else may have an idea before I fire this off.

Nah that might not work, i tried uninstalling and reinstalling - didnt work . After searching the net :googleing for a resolution to this Flash issue, this script was pieced together. I got the idea from a similar script i came across on the unbunto forums . It comprises of the steps i have taken to get this stuff working with out modifying code or changing libs, But this doesnt work!

#!/bin/bash
echo "Close that Fox"
sudo killall firefox

echo "Removing everything associated with flash:"
sudo yum remove flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash*
sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper

echo "Installing nspluginwrapper"
sudo yum install nspluginwrapper

echo "NOTE*tar file from adobe needs to be in current directory "
echo "Installing proprietary Adobe Flash Player 10 (shockwave)"
tar -zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz 
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

echo "Link them bloody libraries so that firefox can see them."
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

I came across this site though but im not allowed to post a link , regardless ill summarize what i found there

some of the people on that site seem to have gotten flash to work by using symlinks to old lib.so files from the earlier version of fedora. They mentioned something about the current nspluginwrapper being linked to or the code in it stil utilizing or makeing refrence to the old lib.so's from the previous version of fedora. - What i just said is speculation i'm not sure any of that is correct but thats what i gleamed from the forum on that link.

Regarding the GREY BOX i get it on just some flash files ...like i can view some videos on you tube but others i cannot. However on other media sites across the net i cannot view any videos any longer - nothing works all i get is a grey box. EXCEPT for mega video for some reason all the video's on their site work . So ...hmmm i dont know what the issue is because FLASH works great on my Fedora 11 x64 laptop and on my Fedora 12 x386 laptop. But it does not work on my Fedora 12 x64 Desktop. Which previosuly was fedora 9 x64 and flash worked perfectly.

ill check back to see if anyone else posted anything

if anyone found a way to get flash working please post a reply

best regards

[deskartez]

I was trolling the fedora forums for any info regarding the nspluginwrapper and apparently some total linux HERO our there named leigh123linux on the fedora forums wrote his own rpm for the 64bit plugin. Basicaly you have to remove nspluginwrapper and the adobe plugin, then you just use his plugin and viola FLASHWORKS again!!

3 cheers for 'leigh123linux'

here is the shell script you can use to remove your current flash plugin and then setup your yum's repo to use his flash plugin and finally get it installed and flash working again!

#!/bin/bash
echo "Removing previous installs of flash:"
sudo yum erase flash-plugin nspluginwrapper*

echo "Setting up the new flash repository:"
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
echo "You have to fix the following code im not allowed to post links, add the ht and 3w's part to the front of the urls:"
sudo curl -O dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion-testing/flashplayer.x86_64/flash.repo
sudo rpm --import dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion-testing/flashplayer.x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-leigh123linux

echo "Installing the custom flash player without nspluginwrapper "
sudo yum install flash-plugin
echo "Finished "

best regards