#445108 Unable to play flash videos in Liferea

Package:
liferea
Source:
liferea
Description:
feed/news/podcast client with plugin support
Submitter:
"Toufeeq Hussain"
Date:
2014-11-26 00:51:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#445108#5
Date:
2007-10-03 09:13:57 UTC
From:
To:
I'm unable to play flash videos which are embedded inside RSS Feeds.

As an example take any of the popular RSS Feeds which contain flash
videos (FLV), Gizmodo or Engadget. The feed renders fine and the flash
video is also displayed but is not playable. The video shows up but on
clicking the video it does not play.

The Liferea I'm running is the Xulrunner based one.

Thanks.

#445108#10
Date:
2007-12-04 01:25:14 UTC
From:
To:
tag 445108 unreproducible
thanks

Sorry for the late reply.

I have not been able to reproduce this. Does it still happen in the
latest versions? Could you send me a specific item in and specific
feed where it shows up?

#445108#17
Date:
2013-01-07 09:18:12 UTC
From:
To:
This bug has been marked as unreproducible for 3 years and moreinfo for
2 months.


If this bug is still a problem for you, please report back.
Otherwise, this bug report will be closed.

Thanks for your time.

#445108#20
Date:
2013-01-07 09:18:12 UTC
From:
To:
This bug has been marked as unreproducible for 3 years and moreinfo for
2 months.


If this bug is still a problem for you, please report back.
Otherwise, this bug report will be closed.

Thanks for your time.

#445108#25
Date:
2013-02-05 13:28:17 UTC
From:
To:
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.6 (squeeze)
Release: 6.0.6
Codename: squeeze

$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2~bpo60+1 x86_64
GNU/Linux

WHAT?
Crash

WHEN?
On loading news with Flash Player content

WHY?
Probably something gone wrong with new FlashPlayer, my own was updated
from command line, and after that Epiphany and Liferea crash at loading
Flash content. I think that is the reason why you can't reproduce that
crash, or error. Your versions of Flash is probably different, and
doesn't have the same behavior.

#445108#30
Date:
2013-03-17 10:55:54 UTC
From:
To:
From your gdb, it's the flashplayer plugin that's crashing. I'd suggest
trying to run a different version of the flash plugin.

Is it really *all* flash content that doesn't work for you?
Have you tried the flash plugin that's in the debian repos?

You installed it from command line? Have you made sure that your flash
plugin matches the architecture of your distro?  If you're running a
32-bit flash plugin on a 64-bit distro, it's not going to work.

Flash content works just fine here using flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.2 from
wheezy so I'm thinking it's got to be a problem with that flashplugin
you've got.

Thanks for your time,

#445108#33
Date:
2013-03-17 10:55:54 UTC
From:
To:
From your gdb, it's the flashplayer plugin that's crashing. I'd suggest
trying to run a different version of the flash plugin.

Is it really *all* flash content that doesn't work for you?
Have you tried the flash plugin that's in the debian repos?

You installed it from command line? Have you made sure that your flash
plugin matches the architecture of your distro?  If you're running a
32-bit flash plugin on a 64-bit distro, it's not going to work.

Flash content works just fine here using flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.2 from
wheezy so I'm thinking it's got to be a problem with that flashplugin
you've got.

Thanks for your time,

#445108#38
Date:
2013-03-17 15:17:35 UTC
From:
To:
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7 (squeeze)
Release:	6.0.7
Codename:	squeeze

$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2~bpo60+1 x86_64
GNU/Linux

Hello :]
Right now I have new version of Flash Plugin - 11,2,202,270. And as for
now everything works great with Liferea and Epiphany browser :]

I am also sending other important information in attachments :]

$ ls /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/
flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz


Dnia 2013-03-17, nie o godzinie 18:55 +0800, David Smith pisze:

I did it of course in near chance :]

There was no content with Flash that was not crashing :]

Different story was with other browsers like Google Chrome and Iceweasel
(most of time without a single crash).

I didn't installed it from scratch, I just used update-flashplugin-nonfree command from root :]

That was true, just like I wrote earlier :]

Thank you David too, nice to read that someone keeps an eye on that :]

#445108#41
Date:
2013-03-17 15:17:35 UTC
From:
To:
$ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7 (squeeze)
Release:	6.0.7
Codename:	squeeze

$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2~bpo60+1 x86_64
GNU/Linux

Hello :]
Right now I have new version of Flash Plugin - 11,2,202,270. And as for
now everything works great with Liferea and Epiphany browser :]

I am also sending other important information in attachments :]

$ ls /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/
flashplayer10_2_p3_64bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz


Dnia 2013-03-17, nie o godzinie 18:55 +0800, David Smith pisze:

I did it of course in near chance :]

There was no content with Flash that was not crashing :]

Different story was with other browsers like Google Chrome and Iceweasel
(most of time without a single crash).

I didn't installed it from scratch, I just used update-flashplugin-nonfree command from root :]

That was true, just like I wrote earlier :]

Thank you David too, nice to read that someone keeps an eye on that :]

#445108#46
Date:
2013-03-18 02:13:32 UTC
From:
To:
Google chrome is going to ignore any flashplayer lib you installed as it
has flash compiled inside of it.  You could even remove that flashplayer
lib and Chrome's flash will still work :).

Iceweasel might be finding a flashplayer plugin in a different directory
(ie: user's home folder), especially if you installed it through iceweasel.
So the problem in that case, is most likely the flashplugin itself.
If you want to upgrade flash, you should try pulling in the flashplugin
(version 11) which is in  Debian testing.


Great.

#445108#49
Date:
2013-03-18 02:13:32 UTC
From:
To:
Google chrome is going to ignore any flashplayer lib you installed as it
has flash compiled inside of it.  You could even remove that flashplayer
lib and Chrome's flash will still work :).

Iceweasel might be finding a flashplayer plugin in a different directory
(ie: user's home folder), especially if you installed it through iceweasel.
So the problem in that case, is most likely the flashplugin itself.
If you want to upgrade flash, you should try pulling in the flashplugin
(version 11) which is in  Debian testing.


Great.

#445108#54
Date:
2014-10-23 13:08:21 UTC
From:
To:
Hi

I can see the last submission to this bug report is from 18 Mar 2013; I
just wanted to add some info in case is useful for someone.

I had this bug with Liferea too (debian jessie, liferea 1.10.9-1);
searching on the web and booting Liferea from a console suggested the
problem was related to libcairo2. I tried different versions without
luck.

Yesterday I had to make some changes in Squid3 config file (installed
on a Debian Wheezy server used by all the computers at home) because of
some problems navigating through certain sites; mainly, adding
"dns_v4_first on" to force the use of ipv4.

Surprisingly, after the change, flash videos in liferea started working
again.

Hope it helps someone.

Thank you for your hard work!

#445108#59
Date:
2014-11-24 23:36:17 UTC
From:
To:
Hi the bug is not reproducible under Liferea 1.8.6 on debian wheezy I'm
off to test unstable and jesssie.

No proxy though.

#445108#64
Date:
2014-11-26 00:48:11 UTC
From:
To:
Welp looks like the bug persists on testing. I'll see if I can gather
more information tomorrow.