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nautilus package

errors with flash swf files

Bug #51640 reported by Jamie Dimmel
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Undecided
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have many files saved from youtube with a swf extension. Under Breezy these were able to work fine in Nautilus and opened with Xine. Now if I just click on them in Nautilus they will flash and disappear. Sometimes if I hit F5 they will reappear but it happens again until they are no longer present. Also when I try to open them with Xine I am told they have the wrong file extension, but they do not tell me what the correct file extension for Flash Video is (even though half the time when I try to rename them they dissapear as above).

I am running basic Dapper upgraded with the latest Ubuntu updates, I have the flash plugin from Multiverse and Totem-Xine/Xine from universe. Don't understand as all this worked in Breezy great.

If you need anything else, let me know.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Does running "xine file.swf" from the command line works? Could you give a link to download a such example or attach one small one to the bug page?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Jamie Dimmel (jedimmel) wrote : Re: [Bug 51640] Re: errors with flash swf files

That works, and also if I remove the file extension,
which is what I've done. I've used PrefixSuffix to
remove the file extension from all my *.swf files and
now Nautilus treats them fine. I could have put the
extension .flv on them, but I didn't know if that
would be changed in the future either, so I just left
them without an extension.

--- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your bug. Does running "xine file.swf"
> from the command line
> works? Could you give a link to download a such
> example or attach one
> small one to the bug page?
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> errors with flash swf files
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/51640
>

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Do you still have that bug? Could you attach an example to the bug?

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Jamie Dimmel (jedimmel) wrote :

I have stopped giving extensions to flash files I
save. I just leave the extension off and Linux knows
how to handle it.

--- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> Do you still have that bug? Could you attach an
> example to the bug?
>
> --
> errors with flash swf files
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/51640
>

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

if you rename one to have a name extension, do you still have the problem?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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