Marcos Dione wrote: > hi you all. this must be the most asked question, but so far I got > no empirical answer. and it is: what should I do to get the ^%#^# > falsh player (whichever it should be) to work? I have sid and kde from > cvs (every monday). I tried to use the flash players in debian (ok, > actually swf-player) and even macromedia's flash 5 plugin. now I > discovered flashplayer-mozilla and I'll try it, but just in case it > doesn't work either... could you gimme some tips?
Do you have your file associations set up correctly? Go to control-centre->file browsing->file associations. Check that you have an entry for applications/futuresplash. You want filename pattern *.spl on the general tab and the "netscape plugin viewer" service listed on the embedding tab. Do the same for applications/x-shockwave-flash, filename pattern *.swf HTH, -- Simon Hepburn.
