Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:

 Bad news
 
   It's more painfull building up a collection of flv videos.  The old
 version used to copy Youtube videos/songs/whatever into /tmp with a
 filename beginning with Flash.  

Which tends to fill up disk space, if not wiped regularily ;-o

 The new version dumps it in the Cache directory of whatever Firefox
 profile I'm using.  You have to cd to the Cache subdirectory, and
 execute...

Which is more correct, as it belongs into the browser's cache.
Of course, Mozilla's way of placing it's cache directly into
user profiles (instead of separate dirs under $TEMP) is the wrong
approach, but that's another story.


BTW: if you wanna catch videos and other media you came along
while surfing, just use a proper proxy (eg. wwwoffle) for that.


cu
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Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
  This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash,
 especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in
 mirrorg).

Hi, this Flash 10.2-pre is in portage since 2 days ago. You'll just
have to unmask it. :)

www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.2.161.22_pre20100915



[gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-19 Thread Walter Dnes
  This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash,
especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in
mirrorg).

  Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
To find out where to install, go to about:plugins in Firefox, and see
where your current version of libflashplayer.so is installed.  In my
case it's /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so

  To install...

* for 64-bit version download the file 
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz

* for 32-bit version download the file 
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz

* exit Firefox

* mv your current copy of libflashplayer.so to another directory as a
backup, in case the new one doesn't work for you

* extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded tar.gz into the
directory which you removed libflashplayer.so from.

* fire up Firefox, and away you go

* note that when the release version comes out, you'll need to manually
remove the Preview Release libflashplayer.so

Good news
=
  It works for me, so far.  I've tried live365.com, both via my paid
account and via the free (with commercials) option.  It works.  So does
Youtube.

Bad news

  It's more painfull building up a collection of flv videos.  The old
version used to copy Youtube videos/songs/whatever into /tmp with a
filename beginning with Flash.  It would get wiped each time you
played a new video/whatever.  But you could always move it out to
another place before playing the next video.  Rename the file to
something.flv and mplayer plays it beautifully.  Nice way to build up
a collection.

The new version dumps it in the Cache directory of whatever Firefox
profile I'm using.  You have to cd to the Cache subdirectory, and
execute...

file * | grep Macro

and you'll get a list of all Macromedia Flash files in the directory.
One of them is the most recent Flash file you played on Youtube.  You
have to do some digging.  Again, copy it to another file elsewhere to
keep a copy.

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Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org



Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/19/2010 08:05 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
   This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash,
 especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in
 mirrorg).
 
   Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
 To find out where to install, go to about:plugins in Firefox, and see
 where your current version of libflashplayer.so is installed.  In my
 case it's /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so
 
   To install...
 
 * for 64-bit version download the file 
 http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
 
 * for 32-bit version download the file 
 http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
 
 * exit Firefox
 
 * mv your current copy of libflashplayer.so to another directory as a
 backup, in case the new one doesn't work for you
 
 * extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded tar.gz into the
 directory which you removed libflashplayer.so from.
 
 * fire up Firefox, and away you go
 
 * note that when the release version comes out, you'll need to manually
 remove the Preview Release libflashplayer.so
 
 Good news
 =
   It works for me, so far.  I've tried live365.com, both via my paid
 account and via the free (with commercials) option.  It works.  So does
 Youtube.
 
 Bad news
 
   It's more painfull building up a collection of flv videos.  The old
 version used to copy Youtube videos/songs/whatever into /tmp with a
 filename beginning with Flash.  It would get wiped each time you
 played a new video/whatever.  But you could always move it out to
 another place before playing the next video.  Rename the file to
 something.flv and mplayer plays it beautifully.  Nice way to build up
 a collection.
 
 The new version dumps it in the Cache directory of whatever Firefox
 profile I'm using.  You have to cd to the Cache subdirectory, and
 execute...
 
 file * | grep Macro
 
 and you'll get a list of all Macromedia Flash files in the directory.
 One of them is the most recent Flash file you played on Youtube.  You
 have to do some digging.  Again, copy it to another file elsewhere to
 keep a copy.
 
I have not tried the new version, but this should still work:
the flash-process has a file-open-link in /proc/PID/fd/
The /tmp/Flashxx file was symlinked there. So now the filename and
path are different, but you can probably still find it like that faster
(at least as long as the flv is open by the plugin :)

Bye,
Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-19 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:05:51 -0400
Walter Dnes wrote:

   This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash,
 especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in
 mirrorg).
 
   Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
 To find out where to install, go to about:plugins in Firefox, and
 see where your current version of libflashplayer.so is installed.  In
 my case it's /opt/Adobe/flash-player/libflashplayer.so
 
   To install...
 
 * for 64-bit version download the file
 http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_64bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
 
 * for 32-bit version download the file
 http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1_32bit_linux_091510.tar.gz
 
 * exit Firefox
 
 * mv your current copy of libflashplayer.so to another directory as a
 backup, in case the new one doesn't work for you
 
 * extract libflashplayer.so from the downloaded tar.gz into the
 directory which you removed libflashplayer.so from.
 
 * fire up Firefox, and away you go
 
 * note that when the release version comes out, you'll need to
 manually remove the Preview Release libflashplayer.so

I've just installed it and it's working nicely for me.

Thanks for the link and install instructions.  After creating
directory /opt/Adobe/flash-player/ and extracting the tarball,
I needed to create a symlink for 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so, and then restart firefox.

David