F3 and Ctrl-Q do not show flv-files

J.A.G. · Post by *J.A.G. » 2016-01-02, 22:14 UTC

When I press F3 or Ctrl-Q on almost any kind of file, the resulting box shows its content, but with flv-files I only get a blank (empty) box.

Any ideas what is wrong and how to correct this? Thanks in advance!

J.A.G.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2016-01-03, 14:47 UTC

If you don't even see raw file contents, perhaps you've installed some lister plugin that tries to open FLV but shows nothing. Please check lister window title (it shows plugin name in a parentheses if it is used) and try to switch views (using keys 1, 2, 3, 4).

J.A.G. · Post by *J.A.G. » 2016-01-03, 17:35 UTC

Thank you for your reply

After pressing F3, the keys 1-2-3 give the expected result, but 4 gives an empty box, with the heading: lister (swflst) - [file name.]

Any further suggestions?

HolgerK · Post by *HolgerK » 2016-01-03, 18:06 UTC

Any further suggestions?

Also i dislike flash and removed it a while ago from all of my computers:
- Do you have the Adobe Flash player installed ( https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ )?
As far as i see some (or all) (flash-)lister plugins needs this as prerequisite.

Another possible reason:
- Incompatible bitness between lister plugin (x64/x86) and installed Adobe Flash player (x86/x64).

Regards
Holger

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2016-01-03, 21:03 UTC

J.A.G.,
If you don't use swflst plugin (which opens FLV files in your case and shows nothing; it seems to be this plugin), you can uninstall it, or you can edit its detection string to exclude FLV extension...

J.A.G. · Post by *J.A.G. » 2016-01-03, 22:55 UTC

Thank you very much for your advice. I shall try it out tomorrow, and report back

J.A.G. · Post by *J.A.G. » 2016-01-04, 15:57 UTC

The detection string of swflst here looks like this:

MULTIMEDIA & ext="SWF" | ([0]="F" | [1]="L" | [2]="V") | ([0]="M" | [1]="Z" | [2]="P") | (([0]="F" & [1]="W" & [2]="S")|([0]="C" & [1]="W" & [2]="S") & FORCE)

I am not sure about what to do with that. I de-activated swflst, but that did not do it.

Thanks again for any useful advice.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2016-01-04, 16:04 UTC

Well, it seems that you can remove this part of detection string (it checks that first three file bytes contain "FLV" text):

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| ([0]="F" | [1]="L" | [2]="V")

Anyway, when you delete plugin from Lister plugins it shouldn't be loaded anymore...