Flash/Shockwave?

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:13 am

Are they the same thing? I thought Shockwave was just a web player that would play Flash movies online.

To explain... About a week ago I had tons of tabs/windows open in Firefox. I closed all of them and came back to my PC after a while. (When I open Firefox, I have an extension installed that automatically opens all the windows and tabs I had open when I closed it). When I started it up and it started loading everything, I got the message "The Plugin Has Performed an Illegal Operation" and Firefox crashed.

After a few minutes of fast-clicking as soon as I opened it and before it crashed again, I was able to close out all the tabs, and get it back to only a single window/tab with Google. But still, even opening a single window to Google would give me the Plugin error.

So I closed FF, moved everything out of the Plugins folder to a temp folder, and started it up that way. Back to normal, everything worked fine.

I browsed like this for a couple of days, until I went to a site where I needed the the Quicktime player. I downloaded and installed that, and it worked fine.

But everytime I visited a site with Flash animations, I would just get a blank area where the movie should be. I tried copying the flash files back into the Plugins directory, but it didn't do anything. So I tried downloading the Flash player from Macromedia's site, which is slow as fucking hell, and gave up. I finally found a mirror for the Shockwave player, and I installed that with the Plugin for Firefox.

Now, every now and then, I can watch animations. But there are still a lot of sites that don't display - they still have a blank area on the page where the movie should be.

Do I need a Flash player AND the Shockwave player? And does anyone know where I can download it besides Macromedia's site?

Here is an example of a site that doesn't play:
http://www.atomfilms.com/content/ninjai/

Here is one that does:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/banana.php

Thanks. I feel like such a noob asking a question about Flash player.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:17 am

all you need is shockwave mango

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:33 am

Cool, that's what I thought.

I wonder why most animations won't play then? =\

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:52 am

do you have the latest?

i know its a stupid question.. but odd none the less.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:54 am

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:04 am

allright, thats it, you made me do it, i am going to install FF and try it for my own damned self!

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:07 am

after installing Just Flash, both sites worked..

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:10 am

Ghey, the save preferences button on the first link dosen't do a thing for me, it just sits there :E

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:11 am

lol, I'm the ghey one for not choosing screen size =p

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:12 am

woah that ninja show is pretty kick arse

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:15 am

I don't remember where I got this, but for netscape based browsers I have this file: install_flash_player_plugin.msi

It's about 4 megs in size, different from the 900kb exe found on the macromedia site.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:58 am

dzjepp wrote:woah that ninja show is pretty kick arse

Agreed

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:19 pm

dzjepp wrote:lol, I'm the ghey one for not choosing screen size =p

I did the same thing first time. keke

dzjepp wrote:woah that ninja show is pretty kick arse

Yea, I've watched all of them up through 10, and then forgot about it. It takes them a while to make new episodes, so I just came back to two new ones.

I like when he meets the old man in the woods who curses at him.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:20 pm

dzjepp wrote:I don't remember where I got this, but for netscape based browsers I have this file: install_flash_player_plugin.msi

It's about 4 megs in size, different from the 900kb exe found on the macromedia site.

Hmmm. Could you upload that somewhere?

Post by **Oeloe** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:51 pm

Downloading the Firefox flash plugin should be a matter of 10 seconds, automatically popping up on the page you encounter with flash on it. A reason why copying the plugin files to the FF folder probably is because of the file C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\pluginreg.dat

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:58 pm

Ah, thanks. :icon14:

I'll try deleting that file and then re-installing all my plugins.