Please rebuild kmplayer with NPP support

[Malte S. Stretz]

Binary package hint: kmplayer

The latest flashplugin-nonfree doesn't work with Konqueror's nspluginviewer. See LP#189875. But there's a workaround to use KMPlayer with the NP Player instead, as described here http://mikearthur.co.uk/?p=171

From the comments (by Børre Gaup):
> To get knpplayer in kubuntu (hardy) I did this:
> sudo apt-get build-dep kmplayer
> apt-get source kmplayer
> cd kmplayer-0.10.0c
> vim debian/kmplayer.install
> Added the line usr/bin/knpplayer
> Compiled the package with the command: debuild -i -us -uc -b
> cd ..
> sudo dpkg -i kmplayer_0.10.0c-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
> Hope this helps!

It seems like KMPlayer 0.10 is needed so I'll file an additional bug for gutsy-backports.

Thanks,
Malte

[erythrocyte (erythrocyte)]

This workaround does the job very well. It's not perfect though. For example, playing flash radio on last.fm doesn't work. There's another problem too. Maximizing flash videos to full screen is buggy. :-

1.Go to youtube.com
2. Open up a video
3. Maximize video to full screen.
4. It works

Now do the following:

Repeat steps 1 and 2, then before step 3 click on the KDE Panel. The KDE Panel covers the lower portion of the video. A workaround for this problem is to enable hiding the KDE Panel by:

1.Right Click KDE Panel
2.Goto Configure Panel
3.Choose the appropriate hiding settings from the Hiding section

None of these problems occur with Firefox.

[erythrocyte (erythrocyte)]

After updating to Kubuntu 8.04 with Konqueror 3.5.9 , I no longer have problems with flash.

[erythrocyte (erythrocyte)]

An update:
I was wrong to think that flash works flawlessly in Konqueror 3.5.9 . At times it works and at other time all I get are grey boxes.

[Giuseppe Iannì (birimbao99)]

i agree, build kmplayer with npp support.

[Skarn (skarn86)]

knpplayer is currently missing from jaunty package.

It is vital to allow a painless experience with flash + konqueror.

Strongly hope you will rebuil this package with knpplayer soon.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This is fixed in the development version of Kubuntu 9.10.

[Skarn (skarn86)]

If this is fixed in the development version then please backport it for kubuntu 9.04, as 4 months is way too much time to spend it waiting for flash player ;-)