libpepflashplayer on chromium?

Jan Beich jbeich at vfemail.net
Mon Sep 8 06:44:47 UTC 2014


Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> writes:

F>> Hi,
>> 
>> With latest release of chromium, www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 no longer
>> works. However, I note that Google have now introduced
>> libpepflashplayer to handle Flash content. Is this part of the
>> chromium source-tree or would this involve introducing a separate
>> port?
>
> Unfortunately the libpepflashplayer.so file is a shared object for
> Linux, so it doesn't work out of the box. But maybe it could work with
> nspluginwrapper? But AFAIK nspluginwrapper is for NPAPI Plugins which no
> longer work on Chromium > 35.x

There's already exists something similar, not sure if it supports
running from foreign ABI (linux/ppc, freebsd/x86) similar to
nspluginwrapper though. For Chromium you'll need to downgrade.

https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin

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