Flash player in Epiphany

Question

I have installed Epiphany browser, and really like it because of it's startup time and small footprint. However, I am unable to make youtube or huhu videos (anything that requires flash) to run on Epiphany. Can you please help me with the configuration. I have Firefox and opera both on my system, and both are able to play Flash based videos on the web.

Solution 1

Flash is GTK+2 and Epiphany is GTK+3...that's the problem.

1. install flash sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
2. install nspluginwrapper sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
3. sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
4. nspluginwrapper -v -a -n -i

Solution 2

I'm on Xubuntu 12.04, the lib is in /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/.

So in my case the code is:

sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
nspluginwrapper -v -a -n -i

Solution 3

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and in my case I installed flashplugin using Ubuntu Software Centre and so it installed the plugin at /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so. I did following and Flash worked perfectly in Epiphany 3.4.1.

sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper
sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
nspluginwrapper -v -a -n -i

Solution 4

If you are using Ubuntu 64-bit, install adobe-flashplugin:i386 instead of adobe-flashplugin, before using nspluginwrapper.

sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin:i386 nspluginwrapper
nspluginwrapper -v -a -n -i

Solution 5

I solve problem with adobe flash player in epiphany 3.6 ;-)

This is what I do:

1. sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin nspluginwrapper
2. sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
3. nspluginwrapper -v -a -n -i

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Comments

[Admin]

And what about playing videos at YouTube through HTML5? Does Epiphany support this? Then this can be a partial (only for the sites that have videos in HTML5) and more free solution to the problem.

[Admin]

There are TONS of videos even on youtube that won't play with HTML5. Supposedly it's because of the ads.

[Manish Sinha]

It does not work for me on 11.10 Oneiric

[jsantander]

worked for me! 11.10

[NeoShow]

didn't work in 12.04. $ sudo nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so --> nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

[zebasz]

Not working for me either, but I think it's because there is no 64-bit version of nspluginviewer. I noticed it automatically installed the i386 version with the amd64 version of the wrapper, so I doubt they'll work properly.