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I want to play a .swf file using a standalone Adobe Flash Player on Trusty. AFAIK I was able to install Adobe's standalone Flash Player under Precise. However, Trusty won 't let me install version 10 (I think that it is 32 bit?) of it without installing ia32-libs package. Since that package no longer exists on Trusty, what do I do?

John Rose
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  • vlc used to attempt to play some type of web videos, flc or fls? Tried it? – Xen2050 Dec 19 '14 at 16:35
  • Did you try the instructions here? You may have to just accept needing either the 32-bit libraries or Wine. – Nattgew Dec 19 '14 at 16:37
  • BTW I tried Lightspark but it failed due to not being to play particular .swf file. I looked at Launchpad for Lightspark, it has 233 reported bugs & there seems to be no dev happening. – John Rose Dec 19 '14 at 16:42
  • @Nattgew The instructions referred to "Adobe website (the page links to Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac files for the plugin and the standalone player - look for "Download the Linux debugger and standalone players")." whereas the referred-to Adobe website had this list "Linux 
    DownloadDownload the Flash Player 11.2 Plugin content debugger
DownloadDownload the Flash Player 11.2 Projector content debugger
DownloadDownload the Flash Player 11.2 Projector".                                                     Should I use the Projector or the Projector...debugger?
    – John Rose Dec 19 '14 at 16:47
  • Just tried downloading and running the Flash Player 11.2 Projector and it gives:
    john@JohnDesktop:~/Downloads$ ./flashplayer 'Temporary/Her Laziness Queen of the Black Country Xmas Message.swf' ./flashplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libssl3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any ideas?     – John Rose Dec 19 '14 at 16:52
  • @JohnRose you can try running it with ldd for more info but it's probably looking for the 32-bit version (unless you are missing libssl3) – Nattgew Dec 19 '14 at 17:08
  • @Nattgew actually I think the problem is that the flash file is a wrapper, and is simply a player for an actual video content stored elsewhere. (There are many SWFs like this) – Thomas Ward Dec 19 '14 at 19:49

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The Standalone Flash Player for Windows can be used with Wine without issue, and actually is more efficient for Flash applications. Unfortunately, VLC does not provide the intractability with interactive SWF files.

I have written a test result for this on the AppDB for Wine, here. Note that this is on a Trusty system with the Wine PPA.

Simply download the Windows executable (link on the AppDB), and run it to run your .SWF applications. It should work out of the box with Wine with no additional configuration or DLLs needed.

Thomas Ward
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  • Downloaded the Windows executable using AppDB link & ran it. When I opened the .swf file it displayed a blank window. I then tried running the .exe from the Terminal: john@JohnDesktop:~/Downloads$ wine flashplayer_16_sa.exe 'Temporary/Her Laziness Queen of the Black Country Xmas Message.swf' err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception. followed by lots of other messages. I am emailable at johndotaarondotroseatgmaildotcom if you would like to try the relevant .swf file. – John Rose Dec 19 '14 at 17:03
  • .swf file is downloadable from: https://app.box.com/s/lx59ycbabujvcky4z4dz – John Rose Dec 19 '14 at 17:20
  • .swf file is only 80kb: when I get Firefox to bring up that URL, it gives a blank page. So it looks like Wine & flashplayer are working. However, all other entries in Tools->Page Info (in Firefox) are not swf (or other video) files so my guess is that the .swf entry (shown as embedded) somehow refers to the real video file. The web page for playing the video clip is: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152432831365653&set=vb.618775652&type=2&theater The swf entry is: https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v1/yZ/r/GCPgv5N0J7W.swf Any ideas? – John Rose Dec 19 '14 at 19:32
  • @JohnRose that seems like it might be a different kind of SWF, just a wrapper for a video playing. I've seen such wrappers before, they dont' work standalone. Unless opened in a web browser, this will fail each and every time. The Standalone version for Linux (old by this day and age) would provide a similar result. – Thomas Ward Dec 19 '14 at 19:46
  • Any ideas how to download the video clip as a file, either .swf or .mp4 or any other video standard file? – John Rose Dec 20 '14 at 06:57
  • I do not understand the use of single quotes / double quotes / forward slashes / backward slashes in .desktop files. I have problems with the Exec & Path statements below. Could you supply corrections to: [Desktop Entry] Name=AdobeProjector Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/john/.wine" wine C:/Program Files\ \(x86\)/Adobe\ Projector\ 16\.0\\flashplayer_16_sa.exe Type=Application StartupNotify=true Path="/home/john/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Projector 16.0" Icon=AdobeReader9 – John Rose Dec 20 '14 at 14:44
  • You don't need that at the command line... you don't even need to define the WINEPREFIX or anything... Open the executable on its own with a double click. Exit the program. Then just set the app to be used via the GUI for the SWF - right click the .swf, hit "Open With", select "A wine application" or "Adobe Flash ..." and hit "Select". Then SWFs and such will run automatically with it. (No need to use a whole Desktop launcher for it) – Thomas Ward Dec 20 '14 at 17:40
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Use vlc, open & play it.

The basics guide: http://www.ehow.com/how_7370013_open-swf-vlc.html

This is about replacing the flash player with vlc in your browser, so vlc should work stand-alone VLC for flash video

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    vlc gave a blank window. Please see my last comment to Thomas W above: it seems possible that the .swf file is currupted. – John Rose Dec 19 '14 at 17:24
  • Same here, not blank but more like a 0 length do-nothing. Appears to be a "Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 10" file, but vlc, totem, and actual flash in web browser didn't play anything – Xen2050 Dec 19 '14 at 19:03