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jwhendy
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Hulu + flash player

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I have not been able to watch hulu videos... for some reason youtube works fine.

I get the error: 'hulu is unable to stream video. Please check your internet connection.' or something to that effect.

I have flash-plugin installed via gslapt and have tried the official version from adobe and tried copying it to usr/lib64/, /lib64, /usr/lib/ and /lib/ with no success...

I'm using 64bit Salix. Hulu wants at least version 10.0.22 but I'm using 10.0.42. It's just not seeing it where it wants for some reason.

Thoughts?


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Re: Hulu + flash player

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Update: tried copying libflashplayer.so (downloaded from adobe) into /home/uname/.mozilla/plugins. This created a different occurrence in hulu (some different 'loading' animations') but the same error messages.

In addition, I tried midori and found this:
- originally, hulu would not even load and gave the message: you need at least version 10.0.22 of flash plugin
- I looked around and found other lib files in /usr/lib64/midori so I copied the libflashplayer.so into there and now midori gets as far as firefox, namely, instead of the flash error, it simply says 'unable to stream video. please check your internet connection.

I also tried google chrome but am getting an error that libnss3.so is not present... this is odd in that to rpm the google chrome package I 'had' to install seamonkey libs as well, which put libnss3.so in /usr/lib64/seamonkey/lib/ but it's not being found.

I feel that salix might have some library issues, or at least 64bit library issues. What's going on here? Firefox has it's own libnss3.so as well. I also suspect that either libflashplayer isn't the issue or some other library isn't being found but is most likely present. Any thoughts?


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Re: Hulu + flash player

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Are you sure Hulu uses Flash for video playback? I get the same results than you here, but flash works on every other site so far.


PS: The seamonkey-solibs packages is needed by every browser that uses flash.
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Re: Hulu + flash player

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I'm not so sure Hulu uses flash... I only found this after my experiment with Midori, though. Once I put libflashplayer.so in it's library folder, it changed from 'You need at least version 10.0.22 of flash' to 'Hulu unable to stream video'. You're probably right in hinting that it might be something else...

I disagree about the seamonkey libs unless the Salix install CD is not created properly; namely that firefox was installed by default but the seamonkey libs were not. Gslapt recommended seamonkey-libs when I installed rpm.


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Let me correct my sentence about seamonkey-solibs: flash in firefox does not need seamonkey-solibs, but if you are using flash in alternative browsers you'll probably need the seamonkey-solibs. So it's not needed to have it on the install CD.
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Oh, and I have to correct my statement about the hulu error, too :lol:
After disabling flashblock in Google chrome the video player loads correctly at hulu. Same for Opera and Firefox. But I cannot get further because: "We are sorry! Currently our video library can only be streamed within the United States."
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And to make the same statement in yet another way: seamonkey-solibs is required by other browsers only if you want to view flash content. All browsers work just fine without seamonkey-solibs if you do not want flash content. Firefox does not require seamonkey-solibs, because it already includes the libraries that seamonkey-solibs includes (libnss).
thenktor wrote:But I cannot get further because: "We are sorry! Currently our video library can only be streamed within the United States."
Same here.
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Thanks for the update and help -- I'll check things out when I get home.

What is 'flashblock' by the way? Is that a plugin or setting via preferences? I don't see 'flashblock' in either Preferences or Tools->Add-ons in Firefox.

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

Not installed by default, so you probably don't have it. ;)
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Hmm... I definitely don't have it. So we're kind of stuck, then? Neither of you can check Hulu due to being outside of the US and the only potential issue identified was the blockflash plugin, which I don't actually have :)

Not sure what to do at this point, I guess. I dual boot, so I guess that can work but it would be nice to identify the issue.

One additional question has to do with where libraries are stored... how does that whole business work? Does Salix itself know to look in /lib64 or /usr/lib64 via an environment variable? Do any programs (for example, trying to install Google Chrome) expect it in /lib or /usr/lib instead? Also, what differentiates whether a program has it's own set of libs (like the libnss3 issue) vs. using the same .so file from the shared libraries in the mentioned locations?

Sorry for ignorance... perhaps this is not the place to ask this question. After digging, I just found it odd to find so many copies of various libraries and yet have things complaining that they weren't present!


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John
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