Hello,
We've just set up a Netgear Arlo surveillance system. It has revealed what looks like a Flash issue:
In Chromium (flashplugin 28.0.0.126), we are able to watch the video feeds. But we much prefer Firefox...
In Firefox, we get a ":connection failed" error. Many Netgear Arlo users report this and point to a Flash issue. So I checked in Synaptic, and I was surprised to find all these packages installed:
- mint-flashplugin 2016.12.24 (metapackage)
- mint-flashplugin-11 11.2.202.644
- mint-flashplugin-steam 11.2.202.460
- mint-flashplugin-24 28.0.0.126
Am I right to assume that only the last one should be kept? Perhaps the old ones interfere.
OTTH, the following are not installed:
- flashplayer-mozilla 3:28.0.0.126
- flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.6.1
Perhaps these could help?
I'm a bit lost among all these Flash packages. TIA for any insight. BR, Daniel
What's the correct Flash plugin for Firefox?
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What's the correct Flash plugin for Firefox?
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Re: What's the correct Flash plugin for Firefox?
I suspect not: Flash in Firefox WFM (per this test site), withdclement wrote:I checked in Synaptic, and I was surprised to find all these packages installed:
- mint-flashplugin 2016.12.24 (metapackage)
- mint-flashplugin-11 11.2.202.644
- mint-flashplugin-steam 11.2.202.460
- mint-flashplugin-24 28.0.0.126
Am I right to assume that only the last one should be kept?
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$ date ; aptitude search '~i flash' -F '%c %p %V'
Wed Jan 10 17:12:57 MST 2018
i libhal1-flash 0.3.2-dmo2+bp2
i mint-flashplugin 2016.12.14
i mint-flashplugin-11 11.2.202.644
i mint-flashplugin-24 28.0.0.126
Re: What's the correct Flash plugin for Firefox?
Well, with LMDE2, I'm used to remove mintflashplugin.
I prefer using flashplayer-chromium (from dmo), coupled with browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (from backports).
This way, flash is working both with Chromium (and chromium-based browsers) and Firefox.
I prefer using flashplayer-chromium (from dmo), coupled with browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (from backports).
This way, flash is working both with Chromium (and chromium-based browsers) and Firefox.
Re: What's the correct Flash plugin for Firefox?
Thanks to both for the replies,
[Edit:] However, adding browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash and flashplayer-mozilla while removing mint-flashplugin did give the following "result". If I click the "play" button on each camera, I get either a "request timed out" message, or I'm back to the initial window (with a play button to click). No more :connection failed.
For me too, though it complains that Flash is slightly outdated ("Your version28.0.0.126 Latest Version28.0.0.137"). But unfortunately, I still get the same error (described in my post #1).TomRoche wrote:[...]Flash in Firefox WFM (per this test site)[...]
I have that one.zorzi wrote:[...]I prefer using flashplayer-chromium (from dmo),
I hadn't noticed this one, because it is in backports. Unfortunately, adding it didn't solve my issue... coupled with browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (from backports). [...]
[Edit:] However, adding browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash and flashplayer-mozilla while removing mint-flashplugin did give the following "result". If I click the "play" button on each camera, I get either a "request timed out" message, or I'm back to the initial window (with a play button to click). No more :connection failed.
soooo ... why Flash?
So this, in addition to your previous history forces me to raise a question I had privately entertained earlier, when I readdclement wrote:adding browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash and flashplayer-mozilla while removing mint-flashplugin did give the following "result". If I click the "play" button on each camera, I get either a "request timed out" message, or I'm back to the initial window (with a play button to click). No more :connection failed.
Why use a surveillance system that streams with Flash? I'll just say upfront, I know nothing about this particular application space, e.g., what's available at what prices. I *do* believe (as I suspect you do also) that Flash is an obsolete and (empirically) declining technology. (IIRC it EOLs 2020.) Isn't there an available HTML5 alternative?dclement wrote:We've just set up a Netgear Arlo surveillance system. It has revealed what looks like a Flash issue:
Re: soooo ... why Flash?
That's because Arlo is the one and only system that I know of, which features 100% wireless waterproof cameras which run for 6+ months on batteries only.TomRoche wrote:[...]Why use a surveillance system that streams with Flash? [...]
Let me elaborate a little, provided you don't laugh at us. Granted, we probably don't use Arlo the way Mr Netgear has intended it. In fact we use it to survey... live tortoises (hermanni boettgeri) that we raise in our garden (in a suitable enclosure). Right now they should be hibernating, but the younger one refuses to do so, and we have to keep an eye on him all the time. Still, we have little use for the motion detectors
Re: soooo ... why Flash?
TomRoche wrote:[...]Why use a surveillance system that streams with Flash?
That does sound like a hard constraint. You might consider whining to Netgear to update to HTML5 video, given the already-scheduled Flash EOL.dclement wrote:100% wireless waterproof cameras which run for 6+ months on batteries only.
Or audio activation I'm guessing ... unless they scream when the have bad dreams ?-)dclement wrote:we have little use for the motion detectors