[Gnash-dev] A few issues with Gnash, Seamonkey and Mageia 6.

[Chris Kirsten]

Hi,

I'm on a converted Lenovo Windows 8 G580 x86_64 laptop.  Did a fresh install of 
Mageia 5 (Mandrake/Mandriva fork) and Seamonkey worked for YouTube and Udemy 
video's.  Then did a fresh re-install to upgrade to Mageia 6.  Now Youtube still 
works and I have some non-serious issues with Vimeo, but my main concern is to 
get my Udemy course video's going in Seamonkey 2.49.3.  The YouTube help page 
says SM does not the support the H.264 codecs.

Mageia has Firefox installed from their core releases and everything works 
there, but I have everything set up in Seamonkey.  For the moment I would prefer 
to keep to one thing as I am not that clever in Linux yet.  Then again, I would 
like to get SM working just because I could and for the learning curve.

Now;
Will the gnash plugins be installed for use in Seamonkey or will it default to 
Firefox again?  I have tried several things like copying plugin files over to 
Seamonkey, but no luck.  Tried installing FFMPEG, Cisco's H.264  codecs and some 
other ideas.

Mageia does have gcc and c++ support for gcc installed, but previously there 
were some issues with dependencies and so on.  I did try to compile gcc and was 
left with fatal errors, but that can come later.

Any ideas would be welcome.

Thank you,
Chris.