Epiphany flash issue

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February 18th, 2012
lurgee

Lubuntu / Epiphany flash issue

Hi, all

I've been happily using Epiphany for ages, and everything seemed to be working well. LAst week, Epiphany talked to Flash nicely, and played video clips. Today, it doesn't. If I try to play a clip, I'm told there is a missing plugin.

I have multiple browsers on this computer, and they play clips fine. The problem seem to be local to Epiphany, and arose in the last few days. Updates were downloaded the other night, and there was a disc check during boot today, but I don't see how this could have affected things.

Epiphany extensions are installed. I have tried removing and reinstalling. I feel I'm missing something simple. Tell me what it is.
February 18th, 2012
Rodney9

Re: Epiphany flash issue

This may help - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1852167

I must admit I just like Chromium in Lubuntu, quiet light and doesn't memory leak, plays flash too.

For How-To's, Information and Screen-Casts on Lubuntu go to the
Lubuntu One Stop Thread -

Lubuntu One Stop Thread

Rodney
February 18th, 2012
lurgee

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Thanks for pointing m in the direction of that thread, but reconfiguring flash plugin didn't resolve (I've rebooted since then, just to give it a fair shot).

The problem doesn't seem to be with flash per se, as I have Seamonkey on this computer, and it runs fine. I downloaded Firefox as well, as a test for flash, and it also worked well. Only Epiphany seems to be having trouble.

I didn't like Chrome/Chromium all that much - it might sound odd, but I always felt I might somehow break the browser if I pressed the buttons too hard. Epiphany - while it has its faults - felt a bit more robust. Only it won't play videos, all of a sudden.
February 18th, 2012
lurgee

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Bump.

There seem to be a couple of other people experiencing flash related problems, post upgrade.
February 21st, 2012
lurgee

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Just ran

Quote:

$ nspluginwrapper -v -n -a -i

And got the following result:

Quote:

Auto-install plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Auto-install plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Auto-install plugins from /home/jt/.mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /home/jt/.mozilla/plugins

Does this shed any light on anything for anyone? All I can see is that my elves are erring. Bloody little tykes, I knew I was being too lenient on them ...
February 23rd, 2012
lurgee

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Finally managed to work my way to a solution on this.

1 - I purged flash from my laptop. I have no idea what the technical aspects are, but it boils down to Flash and Epiphany not liking each other. I used the following series of commands:

Quote:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-installer gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper*flash*so
rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash*so

2 - Then I installed gnash through symantic, and the 'Browser-plugin-gnash' package.

3 - This still didn't work, but after putting a check against the HTML5TUBE plugin on Epiphany (TOOLS > PLUGINS > check the box that says HTML5TUBE). I'd checked and unchecked this box a million times over the last few days, but finally seemed to have got everything right ... Success!!
March 5th, 2012
rolfijn

Re: Epiphany flash issue

I don't think the issue is resolved. HTML5 Youtube works for most videos without any flash plugin at all (be it adobe, gnash, lightspark or whatever...). HTML5 Youtube can be enabled through www.youtube.com/html5, which I think is the same as enabling the HTML5tube extension.

I have the same problem as the original poster. I can view most videos on www.youtube.com and www.vimeo.com through html5. Some videos enforce sponsoring and need flash (on youtube at least...). Grooveshark.com complains there's no flash available when I have "Enable Plugins" disabled in the privacy tab of the options dialog and works when I enable this option. So, it seems that flash is available within epiphany, just not for video.
March 27th, 2012
missmoondog

Re: Epiphany flash issue

as much of a pain as flash can be, almost still have to have it sometimes, at least.

you mean it is possible to get flash to work in epiphany? never thought i'd hear of the day!

epiphany could be a killer browser, just for the simplicity of it, but it always seems to be a day late and dollar short in areas you need it to work.
September 14th, 2012
mdye

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Why is this thread marked SOLVED? It's not solved at all - people want to use *Flash* which is not just used in YouTube. It's awesome that YouTube is using HTML5 - would that *everyone* were doing that (e.g., Hulu, etc.) But they just don't. At the risk of sounding snarky, I'm pretty sure GNOME and KDE people don't actually ever use the internet (though, to be fair, Epiphany has improved a *lot* - you can now use Google Drive. I never thought I'd see the day when it was that useful.) If the Epiphany developers could just address the gaping holes in this nice application it'd be great.
September 14th, 2012
vasa1

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by mdye

... If the Epiphany developers could just address the gaping holes in this nice application it'd be great.

You could start your own thread with specifics.
September 14th, 2012
claracc

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by mdye

Why is this thread marked SOLVED? It's not solved at all - people want to use *Flash* which is not just used in YouTube. It's awesome that YouTube is using HTML5 - would that *everyone* were doing that (e.g., Hulu, etc.) But they just don't. At the risk of sounding snarky, I'm pretty sure GNOME and KDE people don't actually ever use the internet (though, to be fair, Epiphany has improved a *lot* - you can now use Google Drive. I never thought I'd see the day when it was that useful.) If the Epiphany developers could just address the gaping holes in this nice application it'd be great.

For me it is solved in the web version 3.4.1, with adobe flashplayer 11.2.232.238 and installing nspluginwrapper and nspluginviewer. I can see flash videos with web without any problem.

It is certain, that it has been a long time for epiphany webkit to work with flashplayer, but now they have got.
September 14th, 2012
vasa1

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by claracc

For me it is solved in the web version 3.4.1, with adobe flashplayer 11.2.232.238 and installing nspluginwrapper and nspluginviewer. I can see flash videos with web without any problem.

It is certain, that it has been a long time for epiphany webkit to work with flashplayer, but now they have got.

@claracc, you may be interested to know that Midori plays Flash without needing the wrapper.
September 14th, 2012
claracc

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by vasa1

@claracc, you may be interested to know that Midori plays Flash without needing the wrapper.

I didn't know. Thanks.

Do you recommend better to use midori instead epiphany in an old pIII 1GHz CPU, 512 MB ram?.

Is midori using less resources (CPU and ram) than epiphany or are they similar?
September 14th, 2012
vasa1

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by claracc

I didn't know. Thanks.

Do you recommend better to use midori instead epiphany in an old pIII 1GHz CPU, 512 MB ram?.

Is midori using less resources (CPU and ram) than epiphany or are they similar?

@claracc, I think they're very similar in resource usage but Midori seems more user friendly, AFAICT, and the Midori QnA at Launchpad is decent as well. But, to get the latest, you'll have to install it via its Launchpad ppa (which is what I've done).

I had a problem with Epiphany when I tried to use a custom ad blocker. Another potential concern is that the Epiphany devs are keen to ensure it works primarily with a GNOME environment.
September 14th, 2012
claracc

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by vasa1

@claracc, I think they're very similar in resource usage but Midori seems more user friendly, AFAICT, and the Midori QnA at Launchpad is decent as well. But, to get the latest, you'll have to install it via its Launchpad ppa (which is what I've done).

I had a problem with Epiphany when I tried to use a custom ad blocker. Another potential concern is that the Epiphany devs are keen to ensure it works primarily with a GNOME environment.

Thankyou. I will try.
December 30th, 2012
The_Cunning_Stunt

Re: Epiphany flash issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by claracc

For me it is solved in the web version 3.4.1, with adobe flashplayer 11.2.232.238 and installing nspluginwrapper and nspluginviewer. I can see flash videos with web without any problem.

It is certain, that it has been a long time for epiphany webkit to work with flashplayer, but now they have got.

This doesn't work for me

I ran

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper nspluginviewer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: calligra-l10n-engb cdparanoia k3b k3b-data k3b-i18n kdevelop-l10n kdevelop-php-docs-l10n kdevelop-php-l10n language-pack-kde-en libasprintf0c2:i386 libflac++6 libgomp1:i386 libk3b6 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: nspluginviewer:i386 nspluginwrapper 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 202 kB of archives. After this operation, 583 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/multiverse nspluginviewer i386 1.4.4-0ubuntu4 [86.0 kB] Get:2 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/multiverse nspluginwrapper amd64 1.4.4-0ubuntu4 [116 kB] Fetched 202 kB in 0s (380 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package nspluginviewer. (Reading database ... 202461 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nspluginviewer (from .../nspluginviewer_1.4.4-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package nspluginwrapper. Unpacking nspluginwrapper (from .../nspluginwrapper_1.4.4-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up nspluginviewer (1.4.4-0ubuntu4) ... Setting up nspluginwrapper (1.4.4-0ubuntu4) ... plugin dirs: nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins Auto-update plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins

Then I ran

Code:

$ nspluginwrapper -v -n -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libcinnamon-browser-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Auto-install plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

If I open this page, it stills tells me that i need flash