Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Adding Adobe Flash to 64Bit Browser

OK, to get the Adobe Flash working on the 64bit Browser, you need to install a wrapper.
su -c 'yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 \
    nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 \
    libcurl.i686'

Once this is installed, restart your browser.  On F12 64, I had Adobe installed however every so often, I would lose the link to it in Firefox.  I would have to close all instances of FF and restart the browser.  Just became a pain in the rear.


YouTube is moving away from the Flash format anyhow so you may want to look at the follwing:

Source

Google has recently open sourced the VP8 video format and combined it with Ogg Vorbis audio and an adaptation of the Matroska container, creating a new format for free and open video and audio called WebM. YouTube is switching over to using WebM extensively and Fedora has embraced this format as well.
Updates to the GStreamer multimedia framework in Fedora 13 and Fedora 12 enable users to play many YouTube videos directly without Flash via browsers such as Epiphany and Midori, which use Gstreamer. Fedora 12 users also need the webkitgtk update.
Once you have the updates installed, to enable support for it in YouTube, go to http://youtube.com/html5 and click on "Join the HTML5 Beta" link in the bottom of that page. Note that all videos are not available in WebM format yet, but this is expected to happen over time. Here is a sample video for testing. Fedora 14 will have more extensive support for WebM by default.

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