[hardy]xembed and flash support patches doesn't work for konqueror

Should work with current kdelibs, konqueror and gtk-qt-engine in hardy

Patch for gutsy

In comment 1 that should be konqueror-nsplugins

Doesn't work with kdebase-bin-kde4 and konqueror from KDE 3 - the player runs, but it does not paint. (audio plays however)

||/ Name Version Description
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ii gtk-qt-engine 1:0.8-1ubuntu2 theme engine using Qt for GTK+ 2.x
ii kdebase-bin-kde4 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu5 core binaries for the KDE 4 base module
ii konqueror 4:3.5.8-2ubuntu16 KDE's advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer
ii konqueror-nsplugins 4:3.5.8-2ubuntu16 Netscape plugin support for Konqueror
ii konqueror-nsplugins-kde4 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu5 Netscape plugin support for Konqueror

After removing KDE4 and installing kdebase-bin-kde3 (4:3.5.8-2ubuntu16), a grey box renders. I'm testing this on http://nicovideo.jp 's player, and http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

this is a dupe of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nspluginwrapper/+bug/174343

isn't'?

kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.8-4ubuntu10 contains the fix.

I rejected gutsy gtk-qt-engine since the patch changes more than just disabling it for nspluginwrapper.

I rejected gutsy kdelibs, since the debdiff has lots of noise in it; in particular, adding X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain: everywhere does not seem to make sense, and is unrelated.

kdebase/gutsy-proposed accepted.

gtk-qt-engine/dapper-proposed looks good. Edgy and Feisty have the same problem (inadvertedly dropping ((qApp) && (qApp->type() == QApplication::Tty))), I rejected those.

Rejecting because of unclean diffs:

$ mdebdiff -s feisty-updates kdebase_3.5.6-0ubuntu20.9.dsc|wc -l
120774

gtk-qt-engine re-uploaded for gutsy, feisty and edgy.

kdelibs re-uploaded for gutsy.

Accepted kdelibs/feisty-proposed.

New gtk-qt-engine for gutsy looks good, accepted.

kdelibs/gutsy-proposed accepted.

gtk-qt-engine for feisty-proposed accepted.

gtk-qt-engine for edgy-proposed accepted.

gtk-qt-engine_0.70-0ubuntu1.2 for edgy-proposed uploaded

Cimmo,

It's not a dupe of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nspluginwrapper/+bug/174343 .

I installed the proposed packages for gutsy and removed kde4 packages. I am only getting audio playback but no visual rendering of the flash objects.

I figured out my problem. I had the ppa version of kdebase and konqueror-nsplugins installed. After I switched to the gutsy-proposed version of the packages, flash rendering worked.

Rashad, thank you for testing!

Can we please collect some more feedback here? Testing that flash now works is important, but even more important (from a "regressions are hell" point of view) are reports that otherwise the updated packages behave as usual and don't cause any problem.

Thank you all in advance!

Test Case:

Install these packages.

Install flashplugin-nonfree

In Konqueror under Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Plugins -> Plugins tab make sure flash is detected (if not click Scan for new)

Go to youtube.com, if flash worked, pass.

Tested on my computer, flashplugin-nonfree works without any problems with konqueror on Feisty and Gutsy 32bit. I only tested youtube, I don't use konqueror everydays. For Edgy, latest flashplugin-nonfree package is not available yet, but konqueror works without problem after installing the package from Gutsy repositories.

Verification done on Gutsy packages:

* After install the flashplugin-nonfree and go to youtube.com, I've got an error , flash plugin doesn't work.
* After installing the packages in proposed and go to youtube.com with konqueror the flash plugin worked fine, i was able to see a video there, bug is fixed.

thanks.

Verification done on Feisty packages:

* After installed the flashplugin-nonfree package and went to youtute.com with konqueror the flashplugin didn't work.
* After installing the packages in proposed and go to youtube.com with konqueror the flash plugin worked fine, bug is fixed there too.

thanks.

I copied the gutsy and feisty packages to -updates.

Verification for Dapper

* Verification wasn't really possible, with the provided testcase, for this bug since flashplugin-nonfree won't install anymore on Dapper - bug 173890 - so I updated the dapper-backports package for flashplugin-nonfree so it would install. In hindsight it might have been possible to test the bug after manually installing the flashplugin from Macromedia.
* After installing flashplugin-nonfree-9.0.48.0.0ubuntu11~dapper3 the flashplugin was still not detected by konqueror only after installing libgtk2.0-0 and libgtk2.0-bin and their dependencies was it detected. I'm not certain what was magic about that. With flashplugin-nonfree and kdebase et al from dapper-updates konqueror crashed when going to youtube.com
*After installing the proposed kdebase, kdelibs and gtk2-engines-gtk-qt youtube worked again with Konqueror

Still broken on hardy.

Dapper packages copied to -updates.

Thank you all for the work done so far.

I installed the binary packages from gutsy-proposed. I'm sorry to say, that they don't pass the test case described in comment #34 in a satisfactory way: Only the first video on youtube is displayed correctly (although nspluginviewer takes lot of CPU capacity). But when following a link to a second video, the video area is rendered grey and only audio is working. Sometimes I get a message saying that nspluginviewer crashed (after leaving a site).

It seems like KDE commit 76944 wasn't included in the update. At least grepping for NSPluginStreamBase::updateURL in the patch doesn't find anything. See also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132138#c60

Verification done on Edgy packages:

* After installed the flashplugin-nonfree package and went to youtute.com with konqueror the flashplugin didn't work.
* After installing the packages in proposed and go to youtube.com with konqueror the flash plugin worked fine, bug is fixed there too.

thanks.

Copied to edgy-updates.

My system is Kubuntu 8.04 LTS. Although flash works on some websites like lastfm, on sites like youtube and dailymotion all I get are grey boxes with sound. The video isn't displayed. My system is up to date.

These are the package versions I have:

sudo apt-cache policy kdelibs konqueror flashplugin-nonfree kdebase
kdelibs:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
     4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
konqueror:
  Installed: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: 9.0.124.0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 9.0.124.0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 9.0.124.0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
kdebase:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
     4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

Has the fix been released into the main repos yet? I'm totally lost as to what I gotta do to make flash work seamlessly. Please do let me know if I need to provide additional information. Thanks!

I am using Kubuntu 8.04 LTS Amd64. Flash works on YouTube but does not work
properly on MySpace music pages. The music player on MySpace displays the
title of the song as undefined and it does not play.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:01 PM, erythrocyte <email address hidden> wrote:

> My system is Kubuntu 8.04 LTS. Although flash works on some websites
> like lastfm, on sites like youtube and dailymotion all I get are grey
> boxes with sound. The video isn't displayed. My system is up to date.
>
> These are the package versions I have:
>
> sudo apt-cache policy kdelibs konqueror flashplugin-nonfree kdebase
> kdelibs:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7
> Version table:
> 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7 0
> 500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
> konqueror:
> Installed: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7
> Candidate: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7
> Version table:
> *** 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7 0
> 500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> flashplugin-nonfree:
> Installed: 9.0.124.0ubuntu2
> Candidate: 9.0.124.0ubuntu2
> Version table:
> *** 9.0.124.0ubuntu2 0
> 500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> kdebase:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7
> Version table:
> 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7 0
> 500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
>
> Has the fix been released into the main repos yet? I'm totally lost as
> to what I gotta do to make flash work seamlessly. Please do let me know
> if I need to provide additional information. Thanks!
>
> --
> [hardy]xembed and flash support patches doesn't work for konqueror
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184149
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> of the bug.
>

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@ Rashad:

My Kubuntu 8.04 LTS is the 32 bit version. I just discovered something quite interesting about youtube videos. When I view them through http://video.google.com , flash plays perfectly - there is both picture and sound. The same videos on youtube.com however, come up as grey boxes with sound but no picture.

Maybe something to do with the way youtube (and dailymotion, etc.) embed flash videos on their sites?

Also I happened to stumble upon this from KDE docs:-

http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/faq/webbrowser.html#id2558174 ?
[QUOTE]
 9.13.
    Why does Konqueror display a plain grey square when I try to view flash animations, even though the flash plugin is installed?
    Under the latest versions of X.org, having the composite extension loaded can cause problems with the flash plugin. Try disabling the composite extension and see if normal flash operation is restored.
 [/QUOTE]

Does it have anything to do with the erratic grey boxes phenomenon that so many of us are facing?

The following are screenshots depicting the grey box phenomenon on my comp:-

Youtube via Google Videos
http://picasaweb.google.com/firasmr786/UntitledAlbum02/photo#5195640883281646130

Youtube via youtube.com
http://picasaweb.google.com/firasmr786/UntitledAlbum02/photo#5195640891871580738

On extremely rare occasions, youtube videos on youtube.com do manage do show up as expected. This video http://youtube.com/watch?v=EyDB4b_vRE8&feature=related for example *always* works perfectly as depicted in the screenshot below:

http://picasaweb.google.com/firasmr786/UntitledAlbum02/photo#5195644645672997458

@ Rashad

I confirm the Myspace problem you are facing.

I still see the following crash quite frequently, and on numerous sites, even after all updates are applied:

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[KCrash handler]
#6 0xb5776f42 in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#7 0xb57775b6 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#8 0xb57776c0 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 0xb5753e34 in gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data ()
   from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
#10 0xb5751f02 in gdk_pixbuf_new () from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb5c1d5c0 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
#12 0xb5c1da57 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
#13 0xb5bfa20f in ?? ()
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#14 0xb5bfb824 in ?? ()
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#15 0xb5f019f8 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
#16 0xb5f01e16 in ?? ()
   from /...

I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 fully updated as of 2008-05-26 and confirm this problem still exists. I do not have the Composite extension enabled in my xorg.conf. I have yet to see a single YouTube video work correctly, including the one erythrocyte reported always worked. I can confirm that YouTube hosted videos are visible via Google video search, so the problem depends on how the video is embedded in the web page; some ways of embedding a given video work and other ways of embedding the same source fail. I wonder if the failure is a race condition or otherwise related to CPU speed. My machine is quite slow (1.6Ghz VIA) and always fails. Others have reported occasional successes and it is a good chance they are using faster hardware.