[mythtv-users] mythbrowser and flash plugin?

Paul Harrison mythtv at sky.com
Wed May 27 17:36:19 UTC 2009


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/27/2009 10:41 AM, zablal baz wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me how to get mythbrowser working with my flash
>> plugin?  I have adobe flash installed and it works fine with
>> firefox.  But the mythbrowser doesn't seem to be aware that the
>> plugin is present on the system.  Can I just link
>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins ?
>
> You can't use flash (or other Netscape plugins) with MythBrowser in
> 0.21-fixes.
>
> Mike

It's not often you're wrong but I think you are this time :-) The old
KDE based MythBrowser has supported plugins for a while now even in
0.21-fixes (http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/13437). The new WebKit
based version in trunk also supports plugins but only if qt >= 4.5.0 is
used.

Paul H.


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