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Since I installed hardy I'm yet to get video on flash working straight... I've tried everything I've read, installing ff3beta3, wrapping flash9 with nspluginwrapper, back to firefox32 and nonfree32, flash beta10, wrapping flash beta10...
well, most like the path you took, but my symptoms have been, I presume, different: in YouTube and other flash based video website, videos just freezes (not firefox, just the stream) after 2 secs, or even don't start (like vimeo)
before taking the leap into "your setup" I'd love to know if you think it will solve anything... what exactly is different in "your setup" ? the combination of specific versions? the fact that you compile it ?
thanks
now runing firefox (3 non beta) does this:
./firefox
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/andrezero/firefox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so [/home/andrezero/firefox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64]
which is clearly a 64/32 incompatibility between the firefox and the "wrapped" .so (made from flash 9.0.124)
So, still stuck with the 9.0.124 non-free which still halts all video after 2 secs...
unbelievable... failure
Well flash seems to be a give and take on 64 bit hardy. I think my install differs from other installs because I wipe all existing flash, nspluginwrapper, and link files out manually to make sure none of them are left behind to cause problems. I am not certain, but the problem you describe with the video starting then freezing seems like it could be caused by some files left behind from a previous install.
I do believe the install route I took was simpler because I compiled it myself and copied the flashplugin manually to the directories that needed it.
None of the nspluginwrappers are perfect but I believe for my purposes, the nspluginwrapper 1.0.0 was a little less buggy than the one that is packaged with ubuntu. Also as far as the flash/nspluginwrapper combination is concerned, for me the older flash player 9r48 combined with nspluginwrapper 1.0.0 was the most stable on my system. Other versions of flash crashed on various websites.
The /home/andrezero/firefox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 doesn't bother me because that some error sometimes appears when running a dual core machine. However I don't know why you are getting the LoadPlugin: failed errror. The only thing I can think of is if you have firefox installed in both your home directory and elsewhere on your system, and/or firefox is trying to call a broken or nonexistent plugin. The default directories to install the plugins are /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins unless your installation is different. I do hope you eventually get flash working.
But I didn't need to change the nspluginwrapper plugin, the 0.9.91.5 version in the repositories worked fine.
Now I have a happy girlfriend again
I'm glad everything worked out for you!
kj