I’ve been struggling quite a lot lately with my beloved Opera browser and flash video (read: YouTube and so on).
Even if the configuration of the flash player/plugin on my Gentoo looked perfectly working (Firefox was playing flash video flawlessly…), I was unable to enjoy them with Opera, which is my main browser.
Well, looking at the fact that I am in Tokyo enjoying all the pressure of my JAL training, I didn’t actually looked deeply into the problem trying to find a solution, until this afternoon, when straight back from the training center I don’t know why, but I found unbearably annoying to have to open another browser just to watch a video… my geek side took the command and a quick jump into Gentoo’s Forum gave me all I needed to solve the problem (refer here for the relevant post!).
Apparently, was just a matter of re-linking the plugin:
# ln -s /opt/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
/opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/flashplayer.xpt
# ln -s /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.soplus changing the /opt/netscape plugin path in Opera Preferences Downloads to the /opt/opera path (2 Mime types) works. In a new setup Opera takes the right path automatically, when the symlinks are made first. So only putting these 2 symlinks in the ebuild would be an (ugly) temporary fix…
Needless to say, now everything is working!
I’m missing following the OpenSource community (I really don’t have time even to keep the pace with all the news around…), but it’s good to see it’s still helpful as ever! ;)
