Akregator and Flash

[quiddity]

Hello all,

I have a problem with Akregator and Flash (as the title suggests).

If I try to view a feed story within Akregator, Flash videos (e.g. Youtube) do not load properly. I get a black box and some of the controls, but nothing else. The video will not play.

Some other things that I think use Flash do not load at all, for example embedded Soundcloud tracks (this might be html5 though? Not sure).

Flash works fine in both Firefox and Rekonq, and the problems with Akregator persist no matter which I have set as the external browser.

I am using Akregator 4.7.3 and KDE 4.7.4

Thanks for any help.

[claydoh]

I believe the html rendering in does not support flash.
You can configure Akregator to open a post in an external browser with a middle-click on. the entry

[herophuong]

Actually, youtube in akregator is rendered in html5. But with this behaviour, we can consider that is a "bug" of akregator (or webkit in kde, i don't know) for not rendering html5 correctly.

[claydoh]

I do not believe Akregator uses webkit, but uses khtml.

You can check/change this if you follow the pictorial here.

[molecule-eye]

Sorry for bringing up this old ass thread, but this problem still persists in Kubuntu 12.10, KDE 4.10.1. It would be nice if Akregator used Rekonq to view HTML and for dealing with embedded flash. Any news on this? Bug report?

[vinnywright]

Sorry for bringing up this old ass thread, but this problem still persists in Kubuntu 12.10, KDE 4.10.1. It would be nice if Akregator used Rekonq to view HTML and for dealing with embedded flash. Any news on this? Bug report?

@hear it uses whatever is listed as the default browser in system settings>default applications and seemed to do flash just fine last night

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

Adobe has canceled all development of the Flash plugin for Linux. Therefore, we should no longer expect that any other program will use the plugin. That some programs still do is a benefit, of course, but there exists no incentive for developers to continue making their code work with Flash. The plugin will wither and die as Adobe makes changes to the underlying codecs and containers.

[vinnywright]

Adobe has canceled all development of the Flash plugin for Linux. Therefore, we should no longer expect that any other program will use the plugin. That some programs still do is a benefit, of course, but there exists no incentive for developers to continue making their code work with Flash. The plugin will wither and die as Adobe makes changes to the underlying codecs and containers.

so how will we eventually watch youtube or flash content anywhere?

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

For Linux, only Google Chrome. It includes the new plugin that Google, not Adobe, maintains.

Also, just found this: tips for how to get Chromium to use Chrome's plugin.
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/how-t...sh-player.html

[molecule-eye]

Then mine's broken because it's not using firefox, which I have as my default browser.

[vinnywright]

Then mine's broken because it's not using firefox, which I have as my default browser.

check Akregator>settings>configure Akregator>browser tab,, sett the one you want for external browsing .

VINNY