Re: firefox-bin-flash and opera-plugins not working

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:43:53 +0100
Onno van der Linden <o.vd.linden%quicknet.nl@localhost> wrote:

> Hopefully my last message about it all.
> > Bad news:
> > no sound from www.youtube.com
> > 
> > you need libflashsupport.so to get OSS sound support
> > (NetBSD doesn't have ALSA, it only knows OSS)
> > https://svn.revolutionlinux.com/MILLE/RELEASE/mille-xterm/Mandriva/2006/devel/i586/libflashsupport-1.0-2098.i586.rpm
> > is where you get libflashsupport.so
> > extract the rpm and
> > cp libflashsupport.so /usr/pkg/lib/netscape/plugins
> 
> And this was where I went wrong
> Tonight I did
> cp libflashsupport.so /emul/linux/usr/lib
> 
> And a working youtube with sound :-)
> 
> The audio still isn't completely in sync with the video,
> but it is a million miles better than crashing.
> 
> Many thanks again to Geert Hendrickx for the hint about
> nspluginwrapper.
> 
This is great!  Now, if someone will just pkgsrc-ize it...


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb