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detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashblock
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:59 pm
by Diceman
With the new update, Flashgot now interferes with flashblock.
I have traced it back to something being performed in
this script that no longer behaves correctly with the new version of flashgot.
blocking this file will allow the video to start, but then blocks comments and other aspects of the site.
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:48 pm
by Giorgio Maone
Diceman wrote:With the new update, Flashgot now interferes with flashblock.
I have traced it back to something being performed in
http://s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-vfl0Ew ... mon_mod.js that no longer behaves correctly with the new version of flashgot.
blocking this file will allow the video to start, but then blocks comments and other aspects of the site.
What do you mean, exactly by "interfering" (step to reproduce)?
Does
downgrading FlashGot actually help?
Does the
Error Console (Ctrl+Shift+J) show anything interesting?
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:06 am
by Diceman
Actually, it wasn't a recent change in flashgot that has caused this, the issue can be reproduced as far back as 1.5.5.7, so it must be a change on youtubes side that is causing flashgot to interfere with flashblock
upon updating to flashgot 1.5.5.7+, youtube is no longer functional so long as flashblock is enabled
The blocked applet icon appears momentarily and then is replaced by a solid black frame
STR
Install flashgot and flashblock
navigate to a video on youtube
the video will appear as the usual flashblock clickable frame but then disappear and look like this
where it should look like
Going back to 1.5.5.6 and the flashblock button appears as normal.
1.5.5.7rc introduced these
+ Youtube signature decoding algorithm (SDA) sniffing
(thanks "user" for patches)
+ Youtube SDA sniffing automatically triggered if
stream checks fail
+ flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.auto
preference to control whether SDA sniffing should
be automatic or manual (UI-driven)
x More resilient internal preference setting API
Toggling flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.sandbox to false brings back the flashblock clickable frame
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:16 am
by Diceman
3 errors occur in the error console but only when flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.timestamp is set to true
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:17 am
by Guest
Diceman wrote:3 errors occur in the error console but only when flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.timestamp is set to true
Sorry, I meant flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.sandbox;true
turning this off removes the errors and restores the flashblock frame to working.
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:26 am
by Giorgio Maone
Guest wrote:Diceman wrote:3 errors occur in the error console but only when flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.timestamp is set to true
Sorry, I meant flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.sandbox;true
turning this off removes the errors and restores the flashblock frame to working.
Thank you. That code has been kindly contributed by "user", a genius of Youtube stuff. I'm checking if sandboxing is really needed from a security standpoint.
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:45 am
by Giorgio Maone
Oops, looks like the main problem is you using Firefox 13/16. Why?
Could you upgrade to latest ESR (24)?
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 10:28 am
by user
The second error message looks odd.
What's in your flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func preference?
URL of the video?
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:33 pm
by Diceman
Giorgio Maone wrote:Oops, looks like the main problem is you using Firefox 13/16. Why?
Could you upgrade to latest ESR (24)?
I guarantee its got nothing to do with the firefox version, it reproduces in nightly as well.
I use 16 still because of issue 781414
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:36 pm
by mitzone
exact same behaviour on my side also. I created an account just to post this. This was after recent flashgot update.
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:40 pm
by Diceman
Heres the same issue in Nightly
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:42 pm
by Diceman
mitzone wrote:exact same behaviour on my side also. I created an account just to post this. This was after recent flashgot update.
the 1.5.5.95 update tripped me up as well, but its actually a change on youtubes side - the google+ integration has fluffed up the sandbox, since it goes back all the way to 1.5.5.7 and i know for sure there was no problem back then (and flashblock has not been updated between then and now)
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:12 pm
by jlv
Guest wrote:Diceman wrote:3 errors occur in the error console but only when flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.timestamp is set to true
Sorry, I meant flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.sandbox;true
turning this off removes the errors and restores the flashblock frame to working.
I came here to the forums looking for a solution to the problem between FlashGot and Flashblock. I hadn't updated the FlashGot plugin in a while, and when I finally did, I found that Youtube videos were getting up by a black box. At this point I'm using FF27.0.1 on Windows 7/64. I went through creating a new FF user profile to see if I could narrow down what was causing Youtube to not work -- I suspected it wasn't Flashblock, since I hadn't updated it at all (I had updated about a dozen other add-ons). I finally narrowed it down to just this two add-ons together.
Anyway, I can get Youtube working again just by setting this:
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flashgot.media.YouTube.decode_signature_func.sandbox:false
I just wanted to report this is still a problem with the latest FlashGot (1.5.5.97).
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:02 pm
by user
I don't know what's happened, but I just looked at 98rc1 and it's missing the fallback code. Merged it again:
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http://rghost.net/private/52959999/da4cd39122fc513311c3ab2bb1137db6
Re: detection of demuxed streams change has broken flashbloc
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:15 pm
by Giorgio Maone
jlv wrote:
I just wanted to report this is still a problem with the latest FlashGot (1.5.5.97).
It should be finally fixed in 1.5.5.98rc2, please confirm, thank you.