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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439858

Bug Comments Opened by Linus Torvalds on 2008-03-31 15:37 EST [reply] Description of problem:

youtube no workee - fedora 9 not usable for wife

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

swfdec.x86_64 0.6.2-1.fc9
swfdec-gtk.x86_64 0.6.2-1.fc9
swfdec-mozilla.x86_64 0.6.0-1.fc9

How reproducible:

I didn't try a lot of videos, but I couldn't find a single one that actually
worked. And what's the internet without the rick-roll?

Some just show a light gray background, some give the play buttons etc, but show
only a black screen even when the red ball at the bottom moves along..

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install current Fedora 9
2. Rick-roll!
3. No profit!

Actual results:

Some videos just show a light gray background, some give the play buttons etc,
but in the latter case show only a black screen even when the red ball at the
bottom seems to moves along..

Expected results:

Rick Astley in all his glory! People have reported that youtube videos are
supposed to work with swfdec, so I presume they have worked at some point and
have been broken recently.

Just to test that this isn't just a anti-rick-roll security feature, I also
tested some other videos, but let's face it - we do need Rick for the "Full
Internet Experience".

Additional info:

This is "high" priority because the wife will kill me if she doesn't have her
videos. And the adobe player won't install on current rawhide due to some
library issues.

"Obi-wan Kenobi, you're our only hope"

Well I've successfully added myself to the sudoers file. This may not seem like a great feat, but please keep in mind, visudo is just vi, and vi is about as user friendly as a Cat-o-Nine-Tails to the genitalia. Once I succeeded in giving myself "Super-Powers" I started to get a feel for CVS and SVN. I then immediately stopped that and decided never to do that again because as handy fall-back as they are, it's far more of a pain to learn them than it is to just manually download direct from SourceForge.

Installing the ATI Proprietary Driver was a bitch of the Queen variety. Though it is in the Debian non-free package repository, it didn't really play all that nice with my hybrid Etch/Sid setup. So I Googled around for a little bit and found Envy, a tool for installing video drivers in Debian.

This works so much better then traditional mode. You'll notice there's no banding. THere's also a shit load of duplicate photo's but, oh well.

Fullsize Right click and choose Save As...

So I was browsing fsckin w/linux the other day when I came across this great article on Metapixel. Naturally I wanted to try it out.

My first task was to find some sources photos. I needed several hundred so I figured Facebook was a good start. I grabbed about 749 of my friend Lindsay and one source photo for the program to use as a base. I then had to install metapixel (Thank you apt-get) which was easy and figure out how to use it, which was hard.

Anyways it took me about 6 hours in total downloading and screwing around, but you can see the results after the jump.

I've been a staunch supporter of Debian ever since I first started using Linux. It's stable, it's easy to work with (easy to fuck up too) and above all else, it's free. I mean completely free. As free beer and free speech, free. The only other party can rival it's moral authority is Richard Stallman's , a.k.a the people who brought us GNU.

So there I was, sitting, unhappily pondering my future employment, when it hit me, "If I lose my job (or preferably find a better one) I'm going to lose my MSDN access and that means I'll have to go back to pirating Microsoft software!" Normally I wouldn't give two shits about this as quite frankly I really don't care about the morals of piracy, but truth be told cheating activation is more hassle then it's worth, so I'm giving in to their demands. In a move that is almost completely, exactly what Microsoft wanted me not to do, I'm going to Linux!

Now I know what you're probably thinking? You're using Ubuntu right? Well no, not exactly. You see Ubuntu takes Linux and makes it simple and fun. This is bad and I'll tell you for-why. Linux was never meant to be easy, it was meant to be skull-shatteringly efficient. When things start getting easy, they start getting idiot proof and when things start getting idiot proof ... well I refer you to one Windows ME. Designed by idiots, for idiots. I on the other hand have a fully functioning frontal lobe so I'm going to step back from Ubuntu and go with the OS it was based upon, Debian GNU/Linux. Sure it's a little harder and won't be nearly as easy to adapt to with my minimal Linux knowledge, but it will be an adventure and hey, I just might learn something.