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keniv · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 145 Location: Scotland

Hello Bigpup

I posted after you post about ram usage and flash but I dont know where it has gone and so I am posting again. I noticed the same pattern as you did with respect to ram usage and flash also cpu usage was affected. I did try unticking the "enable plugins only on demand box" and this time the flash video on the BBC site played properly. I dont know why the sound only should play with the box ticked. However, this left me without flashblock on other sites. I seemed to remember with Opera 9 there was a flashblock which used java script. As I could not find this I have change libflashplayer.so to the one I was using in Opera 10 when everything worked. This one is 10.0 r32. This one plays the video on the BBCs site, the flashblock works and video on you-tube also plays. Ram and cpu demand is also down based on htop. It also still puts the video into tmp and so it is easy to keep a copy. I expect there will be problems in using this older version of flash but I have not found it yet.

Regards,

Ken.

bigpup · Posted: Fri 12 Aug 2011, 14:00 Post subject:

keniv,

Thanks for the info on Flashplayer.
Seems like the developers of that thing will never get it to not make problems.

Béèm · Posted: Fri 12 Aug 2011, 14:24 Post subject:

keniv · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 145 Location: Scotland

Hello Bigpup

Yes it certainly seems to produce a lot of problems. If anybody comes up with a better solution then I would certainly try it as I am a bit concerned about using this older version. However, with the older hardware I have got flash is a bit jerky in a browser. With this older version of flash I can start it then pause and minimize the browser then play the file in mplayer and it is perfectly smooth. There is an advantage to using the older version for me. I will post if I come across any problems with using the older version.

Regards,

Ken.

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

now with three heads

Béèm · Posted: Fri 12 Aug 2011, 14:48 Post subject:

bigpup · Posted: Fri 12 Aug 2011, 14:55 Post subject:

bigpup · Posted: Fri 12 Aug 2011, 15:05 Post subject:

keniv · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 145 Location: Scotland

The menu->internet->Adobe Flash Player Config seems to work form me in that I can delete the local storage settings. I have not tried to do anything else. If you delete all the previous settings I guess it gives you a "clean start".

Regards,

Ken.

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 13 Aug 2011, 03:24 Post subject:

I updated from Lupu-526 to Luci-528.
Renamed the lupusave file to lucisave.
Deleted the old SFS file.
Copied the Luci-528 SFS file into its place beside the lucisave.
Booted the Luci-528 CD-RW, and it [found the SFS and] updated the lucisave just fine.

BUT...
Youtube vieos have only images; no sound. Sad

Tried uninstalling the old flashplayer version, and installed flashplayer-10.3.181.34 using a PET file.
Made no difference.

Downloaded the tar.gz file for the latest version = 10.3.183.5, and copied the latest libflashplayer.so file in place of the old version.
Made no difference.

Anyone know how to get sound to work in Youtube videos?

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Sylvander · Posted: Sat 13 Aug 2011, 05:00 Post subject:

Yikes, wouldn't want to be forced to begin afresh! Sad

Would rather go back to 526 than do that.

bigpup · Posted: Sat 13 Aug 2011, 15:43 Post subject:

Sylvander · Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2011, 07:23 Post subject:

1. "How did you uninstall? "
Used PPM.
Clicked on the installed libflashplayer-10.3.181.22

2. "Where did you get the Pet file?"
Searched the Puppy forums and found a thread offering it.

joe0855 · Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2011, 11:50 Post subject:

Is there a clean way to update my 5.25 to 5.28? Could I just copy the save file from my 5.25 thumbdrive and paste it into a new 5.28 installation on another thumbdrive?