I've been following this bug because I've been trying to get flash to work on my 64-bit Squeeze box. Maybe you'd like to have some feedback from an end-user.
I removed Gnash in it's entirety because it would only sporadically work and I lost my patience with it. I decided to install swfdec-mozilla and noticed it had very few dependencies that it tried to pull in, in any case I took this to be a good sign. Firefox loads up and YouTube comes up, and although the video 'plays' it stays black (no motion) and has no audio. This is really disappointing because end-users like me do tend to expect to install packages and for them to just work. After scrambling around on Google I find this bug report and notice that I need certain gstreamer packages for it to work (just like Gnash in this respect). This is a bit of a pain because I've just removed all the gstream* packages that I could remove when I binned Gnash. I try installing a couple of 'ugly' and 'bad' gstreamer plugin sets and nothing works. I decided to quickly install everything gstream* and find that YouTube now plays (crap performance mind you but it does work and that would be for another bug report). Now I've removed all the gstream* packages again because I want the fewest packages on my systems as possible; I turn off recommends in both apt and aptitude. This does mean that I'm back where I started. I think the best thing next is to grab the the official 64-bit Adobe flash beta package and just install that, because I know if I install it that it is just going to work and I don't have to faff. I don't want to because I try to have the least amount of closed-source stuff on my systems :( As an end-user, I can only voice the opinion that I think it is imperative that if swfdec-mozilla wants to attempt to be a true drop-in replacement for the official Adobe flash player, then it needs to come with hard dependencies on all the things necessary to create a full and uncompromising flash experience; I just cannot see how end-users can or should be expected to figure it all out themselves. -- Regards, Sheridan Hutchinson sheri...@shezza.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
