Back in the summer, I had youtube working on almost everything I wanted to watch, via the gnash plugin for firefox, and posted that:
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2009-August/019791.html (whoops! accidentally sent that to -dev instead of -support: bad Ken!) Over the next weeks I played about with every from-source codec/audiolibrary I could find, and also got my amp working again (a kernel issue!). There were still a few videos that didn't render, but I got sound (needed faad2 for the silent films with dubbed-on projection noise) and things were good. By the time I started to build my next system, gnome-2.28 was out (I'll offer my experiences on that later) and various other upgrades, including a newer version of gnash. Gnash is now the last thing I build, and it took a very long tiem before I got there. Tried it, just a black box where the video should be. Went back to tjhe old system to watch a video there - same result. Something at youtube has changed (again). Found a note that a method of downloading the videos (instead of just watching them) had broken in August, and another contemporary note that a package in ubuntu needed to be updated to work with changes at youtube. But that's all I've found. I'm now at the stage where a very few videos will render (found 4 so far), and even some which were working for me in the early days (when less than half worked) no longer play. Noticed that fedora is using a gnash snapshot - found a slightly newer one but the results were identical. So, I'm open to suggestions (except those that begin "download from adobe" - I want libre, not binary downloads). Anybody else seeing this ? Anybody using gnash and NOT seeing this problem ? ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
