ppc and flash fix

Bug #646472 reported by Sergey V. Udaltsov

This bug report was converted into a question: question #138980: ppc and flash fix.

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Bug Description

On Power G5, flash cannot be played. Firefox advises to search for the plugin.

The "Install Multimedia Plugins" is going to internet but cannot find anything. The error message is "No packages with the requested plugins found". Requested plugin is "H.264 decoder"

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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

The flash plugin used is gnash.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Hallo
can you try adding medibuntu repositories?
Fabio

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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

medibuntu does not support power g5, only intel

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

Why did you close this bug? It is still there! I provided the information - I cannot use medibuntu on ppc.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Have you already installed
ubuntu-restricted-extras ?

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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

Yes, version 42

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :
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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

ok, for the flash the latest version of gnash solves the problem.

There is still another problem - totem is unable to find h.264 decoder. But that's probably a separate story. I'll file separate bug

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Ok Sergey
I change the title of the report and convert it into a question.
Fabio

summary: - h.264 decoder plugin not found
+ ppc and flash fix
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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

converted to a question as is not a bug

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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

This is what I am getting trying to play some mkv files

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