Flash/Mozilla - hopefully not too stupid (?) a question

[tqft]

Am running Ubuntu Dapper - fully up-to-date.

If I compile the mozilla plugin and have flash working in vlc, then convince firefox to use vlc as its media thingy - will flash based websites work properly?

Getting (particularly) the latest version (9?) of flash to work with firefox is a pain, worse as I build and run v3 from CVS, so if I can simplify this down by making flash a vlc problem that would help.

Thanks

Ian

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yep, they will work just fine.
VLC is able to read some FLV but not flash in general. So it should not be a problem.

[tqft]

J-B,

Thanks.

So far I have a working mp3, DVD, wmv and .mov (at least qt5 anyway) player.

However I used the moz plugin options
--enable-ffmpeg
--enable-dmo --enable-loader --with-mozilla-sdk-path=/media/hdb1/home/ian/mozilla/obj-i686-pc/sdk --enable-mozilla

What would you recommend as a test to see if the plug-in is working? Is there another step I need to take.

Don't know what this option was supposed to do but gcc4.0 choked on it, removed it still fine and still plays mp3's.
--with-ffmpeg-mp3lame

[Mimiru]

just an advice, flash under linux is limited to the 7th version

8 and 9 doesn't exist under linux because macromedia (now adobe) doesn't have any linux dev team until the version 7

[The DJ]

A version 9 is now under development by Mike Melanson. The team even has their own blog.

[Lotesdelere]

A version 9 is now under development by Mike Melanson.

Good news
About time...