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[KenS]

Weird - I just ran this Hack (thanks pepolpc!), and the test video below works fine, as do vids straight from youtube.com.  So I figure I'm in good shape.

Almost...

I tried running an embedded youtube video from http://www.boingboing.net, and I just get a blank white square where the video should be.  If I mouse over it, I get a "Click to activate and use this control" in the status bar at the bottom of the Opera screen.  But when I click on it - nothing happens.  Then, if I navigate away from the page, the white rectangle flashes grey right before the page changes.  I get the same weird behavior at http://www.theoffside.com.  And now I got the weirdness for the video here on this page.  OK, RESTART OPERA.... Video here now works fine after after a Opera restart, but still have the problem on Boingboing....  Except for a boingboing-TV video lower down the page - which worked for a while, then switched to a blank grey square 1/2 way thru the video....  Wow - lots of variations here....

I thought embedded flash videos were embedded flash videos were embedded flash videos - but I guess not.  Or something else is giving me a lot of variety here.  I suppose this 'improvement' is a "hack" - so at least there's truth in advertising here ;o)

Newbie question now - for those of us unaccustomed to such a long 'cp' expression at the terminal ... If I want to go back to my old lbflashplayer.so, all I will need to type is:

cp libflashplayer.so.bak libflashplayer.so

right?  No need for the '&& sed' etc....?

Thanks in advance!
 

[pinke555]

I'm having similar issues to Fricka after trying this out, only I think I'm not as knowledgeable about Terminal--can someone tell me how to undo this process?  I'm not sure why, but when I pull up any page on Utterz with a video on it my XO browser crashes completely.  Meanwhile, Opera just gives me a big gray square.  This was actually happening before I tried this tweak, so undoing this may not do a thing.  At this point I kinda wish I hadn't upgraded the OS to 653 :\  Stupid me. 

thepete,

i also stupidly upgraded to the 653 build, and opera stopped running (wrote about it in my tumblelog funkyboi.tumblr.com) you can change back if you hold down the "O" key on the game pad controller when you start up the xo, but it deleeted skype, which i had installed during my short time w/ the 653 build. hope that helps

Liam G.

[thepete]

Thanks Pinke555. I did learn about that elsewhere--definitely good for folks to know.  I ended up going up to a developer build that had a sleep mode and I'm just not caring about playing Flash videos that smoothly.  It'd be nice if they did play smoothly, but I can always download them and play them in Mplayer.  That's a serious compromise, I know.

[pinke555]

thepete, are you running 690, if not please let me know which build you are running.

Thanks in advance,
me

P.S. did all of your old apps go away?

[thepete]

Sorry pinke555 I've been busy with the job-hunt--but I'm no longer on 690--in fact, I can't get back to it.  Very frustrating.  I've reinstalled the OS a bunch of times, however, and what it does is leave your files where they are, but doesn't know they are there.  Effectively, you have to reinstall everything anyway.  The nice thing is you don't have to download them again--assuming you haven't deleted the install files, anyway.

Sorry again for the slow reply.  Feel free to contact me through my profile page if you need a reply when I don't give you one.

[pinke555]

Thanks thepete for the info on the whole file thing, thats strange that you can't get back to 690, well, I'm out of the buld upgrade scene for now, because I am running enlightenment 17 as a sort of dual boot OS/window manager, thanks to the instructions found in page two of this: [http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1846.0] post, thanks for all the info and good luck (or good luck in the past tense) with the job-hunt.

[thepete]

Thanks, Pinke!  Sadly, I'm still lookin!  But yeah, I'll be moving on from the upgrading scene as soon as I can get some kind of OS installed that allows a sleep mode.  I'd like it to be Sugar, on principle.  Xubuntu's trackpad is impossible to use, so I won't be using that until the firmware works better under Xubuntu.  Perhaps I'll check out enlightenment 17...

[pinke555]

Cool, did you boot Xubuntu off of an SD card/USB drive, or straight off of the fedora core?

[thepete]

SD card but had loads of odd things happen along the way.  When I finally thought to shoot video of the process, the XO was suddenly on its best behavior--typical!    In the end that trackpad was a deal breaker, so I have an unused SD card sitting on a shelf waiting for word of better firmware

[con]

I boot Xubuntu off an SD card when I'm sitting in a cafe or similar environment where I'm doing a lot of surfing and making notes in a word processor that requires a lot of typing.  In that instance, I use a portable Targus usb keyboard and wireless optical mouse and I don't even touch the trackpad.  For light surfing or when I'm mainly watching videos where I'm using the trackpad more frequently and don't do much typing, I boot off of an SD card that has a joyride build. 

[gyrm]

Perhaps a better way to improve Flash performance is to change the way Flash is embedded into the page. I wrote my first greasemonkey script that will do just this for YouTube. It sets the quality of the videos to "low" instead of the default "high".

http://ttwhy.org/code/lofi_flash.user.js

This seems to improve performance somewhat. Theoretically a similar script should be usable by Opera (http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/userjs/examples/) but it seems some modifications need to be made.

Also note that the script currently doesn't work when Flashblock is enabled.

[samphilomath]

Every time I right click on the flash player my browser closed itself.

Do any you guys know how to fix this?

 I usually improve my flash player performance by right click on it and change the setting.

[pinke555]

Every time I right click on the flash player my browser closed itself.

Do any you guys know how to fix this?

 I usually improve my flash player performance by right click on it and change the setting.

are you using browse? if you do that in browse, it will close, and opera won't even let you right click, hope that this helps.

[atogunatv]

I am presently on the default browser,made the adobe Flash player upgrade, I had even  disabled the click  to Play see fix here if you need it
 ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash#Click_to_Play )

I made the recommended hack and rebooted and  videos that are configured to at a show low res option, show really well. However my browser crashes however when i visit certain sites. ( eg http://www.demarketplace.com)
 
reading the post. i suspect that the hack, does not deal with video that is only high res.

These videos are also set at autoplay so that may be a problem.

I also noted  a mention of embed but some embeds on certain sites played very well.  These were also click to play not automatic load though.

can someone whounderstandsthe coding, please suggest a fix
your help is really apreciated, thank you!

[eclare99]

These are great instructions, and I finally got flash working, but now I want it "smoother", and I'm doing exactly what is suggested here, and I after I enter all the "libflasher.so" info etc, I get "cp: cannot create regular file 'libflasher.so.bak" Permission denied."
Can anyone help me this?
tia, Clare

That's awesome!
I just tried it on the default browser, and it worked!  Flash speed is noticeably improved.

Instructions are the same except the libflashplayer.so is located in /usr/lib/flash-plugin