[Opera-Linux] operapluginwrapper for Opera 9.50

[Claudio Santambrogio]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:27:05 +0200, Liviu Andronic  
<landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/27/07, Patricia Aas <psmaas at opera.com> wrote:
>> > I'm using
>> > Opera 9.50 Beta 1
>> > i686, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5-0.2
>> > netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1 (more recent versions do not play flash at
>> > all)
>>
>> Can you give me examples of links that don't work and a description of
>> what does not work, youtube seems to work for me with 9.0.48.
>
> Please note that I use gecko-mediaplayer (probably not directly
> relevant to flash). It might also be relevant that I'm accessing the
> Internet through a transparent proxy.

I am getting confused here - you are not saying that you use  
gecko-mediaplayer *instead* of Flash, to play Flash movies on Youtube?

> Youtube (randomly selected video):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cTqdjzhoPY
> Opera loads the player, displays the spinning dots (at the center of
> the flash player) and hangs there. Firefox has similar behaviour, but
> after some seconds of spinning the dots it plays the video.
>
> On discovery it is most eloquent:
> http://dsc.discovery.com/
> It shows that the entire content is downloaded, but does not play the
> video. Firefox does.
>
> I also have problems with playing _any_ video with gecko-mediaplayer,
> but that's probably not directly Opera related. Firefox fails too.

Not sure - so does gecko-mediaplayer work in Firefox, or not?  I think you  
are possibly talking about two separate issues with two different plugins  
- it would help if you could keep the two issues clearly separate.

/c :)


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claudio santambrogio
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