Angstrom Flash player OPKG

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Hurdy

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Jan 7, 2009, 7:21:25 PM1/7/09
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Hi everyone, i'm looking to download a flash player for the Angstrom
distro.

I've tried using the command "opkg list" to find the correct file name
to do "opkg install ....." but the list returned in the terminal is
too big for me to scroll back up to find flash player.

I was wondering if anyone knows the correct command so i can download
flash player.

i've tried "opkg install flash" & "opkg install flashplayer" but it
just returns an error.

thank you for your time,

Rob

Joshua Hintze

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Jan 7, 2009, 9:22:31 PM1/7/09
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opkg list | more

That way you can scroll throw it slowly. Sorry I don't know the exact
package you are looking for.

Josh

Hurdy

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Jan 8, 2009, 4:38:01 AM1/8/09
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Thanks Josh

> opkg list | more

I appreciate the advice. It makes things a lot easier :). I'm still
learning the whole linux world and its little tricks.

I have another question also concerning an OPKG update I've done.
I updated the Angstrom version of firefox using OPKG. It installed
fine. The problem I'm having is that when I try to load Firefox it
says my SQLite version is too old. So... I did an OPKG search and
found libsqlite3-0 package as the most recent one available. I try to
download it but it says I have it already. Does anyone know if there
is a different package I should download to solve the firefox update
issue?
I've tried "OPKG -force-downgrade install firefox" (I can't remember
the exact command off of the top of my head) which is supposed the
revert firefox to an earlier version but it doesn't work.

Thanks,

Rob

Geof Cohler

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Jan 8, 2009, 7:19:16 AM1/8/09
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Hi,

Adobe Flash Lite v3.1 is not an open source application. But Calsoft
Labs has ported the true Adobe Flash Lite v3.1 Player to Beagleboard.
There are licensing fees required. Please contact Calsoft Labs for
more information (www.cswl.com).

The other alternative is to use SWFDEC that is part of the current
Angstrom build. Swfdec is pretty good -- although not full featured
yet.

Best regards,
Geof

Robert Schuster

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Jan 8, 2009, 8:43:23 AM1/8/09
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Hi,
what you probably want is named gnash.

Regards
Robert

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Koen Kooi

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Jan 8, 2009, 8:50:20 AM1/8/09
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Op 8 jan 2009, om 14:43 heeft Robert Schuster het volgende geschreven:

> Hi,
> what you probably want is named gnash.

Nobody wants gnash :) Having worked on both in OE, you definately want
swfdec, not gnash.

regards,

Koen

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Philip Balister

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Jan 8, 2009, 9:21:03 AM1/8/09
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Koen Kooi <ko...@beagleboard.org> wrote:
>
> Op 8 jan 2009, om 14:43 heeft Robert Schuster het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Hi,
>> what you probably want is named gnash.
>
> Nobody wants gnash :) Having worked on both in OE, you definately want
> swfdec, not gnash.

There is a talk on reverse engineering proprietary protocols by the
gnash developer at FOSDEM this year.

Philip

Koen Kooi

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Jan 8, 2009, 9:23:58 AM1/8/09
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Op 8 jan 2009, om 15:21 heeft Philip Balister het volgende geschreven:

>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Koen Kooi <ko...@beagleboard.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Op 8 jan 2009, om 14:43 heeft Robert Schuster het volgende
>> geschreven:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> what you probably want is named gnash.
>>
>> Nobody wants gnash :) Having worked on both in OE, you definately
>> want
>> swfdec, not gnash.
>
> There is a talk on reverse engineering proprietary protocols by the
> gnash developer at FOSDEM this year.

I guess they need RE, since they refuse to read the available specs....

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Ian R

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Jan 9, 2009, 2:03:51 PM1/9/09
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How do you configure swfdec-mozilla, as using the lastest 2009-X
release, it appears installed already:

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so

swfdec uses libavcodec, so will take advantage of Mans' excellent NEON
optimizations which should easily play YouTube 480x270 'high quality'
H.264 format with MHz to spare (as long as there aren't any s/w layers
getting in the way). Most of the video sites are switching to H.264
so NEON or other acceleration will be needed.

I bring up firefox and do 'about:plugins' and you get the default
plugin

Adding a symlink and we start to get somewhere

root@beagleboard:/home/ian# cd .mozilla/
root@beagleboard:/home/ian/.mozilla# mkdir plugins
root@beagleboard:/home/ian/.mozilla# cd plugins/
root@beagleboard:/home/ian/.mozilla/plugins# ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/
plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so

Plugin gets registered and some sites come up with a large circle with
a play icon... but no video plays

Anyone got a recipe that works?

I'm happy to look into NEON optimizations here...

Jerry Chen

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Jan 10, 2009, 6:19:38 AM1/10/09
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I did the same thing on beagle board and got exactly same result as
you did. I tried the swfdec on my PC with Ubuntu 8.10 and I was able
to play Youtube there.

magnet

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Jan 10, 2009, 6:31:27 AM1/10/09
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hi,

I did the same too with same results, but I could diagnose troubles
with swfdec and codecs when launching from a terminal and looking at
stderr.

do you guys get any errors ?

magnet.

lorin...@o2.co.uk

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Jan 29, 2009, 1:06:16 PM1/29/09
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I see the same behaviour as Ian and Jerry.
This is the console output I get:
=====
root@beagleboard:/# firefox --display=:0&
root@beagleboard:/# Loading stream: http://uk.youtube.com/active_sharing.swf
SWFDEC: ERROR: swfdec_as_context.c(170): swfdec_as_context_abort:
abort: Runtime exceeded

(firefox-bin:6578): Swfdec-CRITICAL **: swfdec_as_context_run:
assertion `context->frame != NULL' failed

[1] + Done firefox --display=:0
=====
Any ideas?

On Jan 10, 11:31 am, magnet <mag...@ci0.org> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I did the same too with same results, but  I could diagnose troubles
> withswfdecand codecs when launching from a terminal and looking at

recalcati

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Mar 1, 2009, 3:25:45 AM3/1/09
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I get a similar log.
But before I have also some issue in D-BUS.
youtube is really important, what can I do?

root@beagleboard:/home/recalcati/.mozilla/plugins# firefox --display=:
0 http://uk.youtube.com/active_sharing.swf -jsconsole &
root@beagleboard:/home/recalcati/.mozilla/plugins#
(firefox-bin:2127): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the
D-BUS daemon:
dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11
initialization failed.


(firefox-bin:2127): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the
D-BUS daemon:
dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11
initialization failed.


(firefox-bin:2127): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the
D-BUS daemon:
dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11
initialization failed.


(firefox-bin:2127): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the
D-BUS daemon:
dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11
initialization failed.


(firefox-bin:2127): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the
D-BUS daemon:
dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11
initialization failed.

/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:46: Clearlooks
configuration option "menuitemstyle" is not supported and will be
ignored.
/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:47: Clearlooks
configuration option "listviewitemstyle" is not supported and will be
ignored.
/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:48: Clearlooks
configuration option "progressbarstyle" is not supported and will be
ignored.
Loading stream: http://www.youtube.com/active_sharing.swf?gl=GB&hl=en-GB
unhandled event 19
SWFDEC: ERROR: swfdec_as_context.c(170): swfdec_as_context_abort:
abort: Runtime exceeded

(firefox-bin:2127): Swfdec-CRITICAL **: swfdec_as_context_run:
assertion `context->frame != NULL' failed






On Jan 29, 7:06 pm, lorinmc...@o2.co.uk wrote:
> I see the same behaviour as Ian and Jerry.
> This is the console output I get:
> =====
> root@beagleboard:/# firefox --display=:0&
> root@beagleboard:/# Loading stream:http://uk.youtube.com/active_sharing.swfSWFDEC: ERROR: swfdec_as_context.c(170): swfdec_as_context_abort:
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