Liferea podcast player controls disappear after watching flash flick

[Patola]

ii liferea 1.4.18-0ubuntu2 feed aggregator for GNOME
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

I am using Kubuntu 8.10 with the latest updates, but this bug has been following me since hardy at least. The problem is that after you see any embedded flash on a news item, you aren't able to play podcasts anymore.

Steps to reproduce bug:
1 - Open liferea. Choose a podcast with mp3 stream, I like this one: http://skeptoid.com/podcast.xml and this one: http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss
2 - You see it correctly, as in my screenshot 1. You are also able to play it correctly.
3 - Open any other news item which has an embedded flash player - from e.g. youtube. Cute overload has some new items like that: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/rss.xml (e.g. "A Born Bjorn Borg", http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/11/a-borg-bjorn-bo.html). Watch the video, or at least the first seconds.
4 - Return to the first new item, the podcast one. You'll see that the player frame is now all white, with no controls, as in my screenshot 2.

[Baggers (chris-bagley)]

We may have to dig deeper into the Kubuntu element if this is still a problem for you as on 8.10 Ubuntu with Liferea 1.4.18 I can't reproduce the bug, even using your feeds.

[Patola (patola)]

That's strange. As of today, with all the latest packages, the problem continues to happen.

How can I dig deeper? Which debug procedures should I use?

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Hi, is this still an issue for you? Can you please try with Jaunty?
Also, which version of the flashplugin do you have? Are you on 32 or 64 bit?
Thank you

[Patola (patola)]

Yes, it's still an issue for me. I have a 64-bit machine (two Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz) but I use kubuntu 32-bit for compatibility with some proprietary programs of my job.

My flash plugin is the following:
ii adobe-flashplugin 10.0.22.87-2intrepid1 Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10

I'll try with Jaunty as soon as it is officially released. :) This is my production machine, so I have to take some care with updates.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

ok, no worries, jaunty will be out next week.
in general however you can also test stuff by booting into a livecd (or even better, a liveusb)...
leaving this as incomplete until you can upgrade to jaunty and let us know
thank you, and good luck

[Patola (patola)]

Well, I just upgraded to Jaunty RC, and guess what! Now (after I check the option allowing flash on the feeds, it seems either it didn't exist before or the upgrade unset it) it seems to be working! I open up skeptoid podcast and play it - it works. I go to an youtube video and get back to it - it works again.

But please let me a few more days to test this thoroughly. Thanks for the tip.

[Patola (patola)]

Unfortunately, the bug keeps appearing. I just went through some flash movies in liferea and the podcast controls are all blank again.

My current version of the flash plugin:

ii adobe-flashplugin 10.0.22.87-2jaunty1 Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

sorry to hear that. switching back to new

[Milton (miltonlaufer)]

I have the same problem with a 64 bit Ubunto 9.04, adobe flash player 10.

The flash disappear randomly in the web pages, for instance when I try to see this web page: http://www.ustream.tv.

The funny thing is that if I enter to www.youtube.com the flash player is running, then if I go to ustream.tv it disappear and then if I go back to Youtube is gone also...

Thanks!

[Milton (miltonlaufer)]

I forgot this: the only way -then- to have the player working is to restart the browser (is the same with Firefox or Opera).

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

>1 reporter, -> switching to confirmed...