topic title: pepperflashplugin-nonfree 1.1 MIGRATED to testing
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#1

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PepperFlashPlayer:

This is the homepage of pepperflashplugin-nonfree, a Debian package for installing Pepper Flash Player, like FlashPlayer is the homepage of the flashplugin-nonfree package.

Pepper Flash Player is maintained by Google, and is newer than Adobe Flash Player. Adobe currently still provides security fixes for Adobe Flash Player. Google provides newer features in Pepper Flash Player. Pepper Flash Player can currently only be used with Chromium (and with Chrome).

The package is a separate Debian package, not integrated in flashplugin-nonfree. Users can choose between Adobe Flash Player and Pepper Flash Player by installing the corresponding Debian package. Both packages will co-exist for some time, until Adobe finally ends security support for the Adobe Flash Player. Pepper Flash Player uses a different interface with the browser than Adobe Flash Player, so it doesn't fit in the mechanism of"alternatives" (flash-mozilla.so). When both are installed on one system, then Chromium currrently only sees the Pepper Flash Player.

The design of the Debian package for installing Pepper Flash Player is similar to flashplugin-nonfree. The difference is that flashplugin-nonfree downloads just the Adobe Flash Player, while for Pepper Flash Player the Debian package downloads Google Chrome, and then unpacks it to make the included Pepper Flash Player available for use with Chromium. Other than that, the mechanism is the same. A different design would be to simply include the Pepper Flash Player in the Debian package. But the upstream license doesn't allow that. Another design would be to bump the Debian package version for each newer Pepper Flash Player. But that would reopen the debate on how to get the updated Debian package in stable in a user friendly way and sufficiently fast. Note that the Debian package would pull in a combination of feature updates and security fixes in a new upstream release of closed-source software, which is somewhat difficult for Debian procedures to install quickly in stable. So for now I'm sticking to the design of flashplugin-nonfree for the same reasons that package is designed that way.


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Just info for you Chromium Browser users in AntiX. __{{emoticon}}__

Edit: checked myself as of this posting after a apt-get update (I am running Jessie) with

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harry@biker:~
$ apt-cache policy pepperflashplugin-nonfree
N: Unable to locate package pepperflashplugin-nonfree
So not there yet.
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jdmeaux1952
Joined: 01 Nov 2013
#2
Thanks for the info
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Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#3
I just added pepper flash. Now to go to some game sites, with chromium just to see how it goes.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#4
do you get google-chrome with it, or is it just downloaded and then discarded once pepperflash is installed?
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Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#5
I can not get pepper flash working, so i tried to force it a little and this is what I got.

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Eino@antiX1:~
$ chromium pepperflashplugin-nonfree
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Operation not permitted).
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Operation not permitted).

(exe:8574): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
I guess I'm stuck with the current flash player, until the bugs are worked out.
anticapitalista
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Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#6
Eino does it work if you do it as root?
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#7
Guys. I have been running Chromium and Pepperflash now on all my 32bit and 64bit installs.

Pepperflash won't interact with Iceweasel. i tried to insert pepperflash in /user/lib/mozilla/plugins but it was a wast of time.
Pepperflash works OK with Chromium and Chromium leaves 11.2 nonfree flash alone. Iceweasel uses 11.2 non free and
leaves pepperflash alone. I did not try real hard to get pepperflash to work in iceweasel because I am not (aint) real worried
or concerned about living with it that way.
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Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#8
anticapitalista wrote:Eino does it work if you do it as root?
Tried nothing happens.
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#9
visit
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to determine whether your installed iceweasel is able to display"Webm" video files natively (no plugin)

If it is, and you install the"YouTube HTML5 Video" addon from
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(it will append"&html5=1" to the URL of YouTube video pages you visit)
your iceweasel will display videos at YouTube without requiring a (pepper/flash) plugin
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Eino
Joined: 12 Oct 2012
#10
Pepper-flash is disabled with NVIDIA video drivers, because of some serious bugs.
I guess everyone with NVIDIA video, will to need to wait for them to fix the issues.