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winformsflashvideogeckofxcefsharp
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cas4

Reputation: 363

Playing Flash video using cefsharp or Geckofx

I'm putting together a simple winforms app for playing videos from the web for my kids. I've explored two options so far but I'm having problems with both of them:

cefsharp: Playing videos wasn't a problem, but it would not persist cookies (even with the CachePath set), so I would have to log into the web sites each time. This would not be very user-friendly.

GeckoFX: No matter what site I go to (youtube for example), flash videos will not play. I get a bank section on the page where the video goes. Based on other questions, I tried adding the line "Gecko.GeckoPreferences.Default["extensions.blocklist.enabled"] = false;" right after the initialize statement, but that did not work. I'm running xulrunner-33.0.2 and GeckoFx-Windows-33.0-0.2.

Any ideas on how to get either solution working would be appreciated.

UPDATE: I found this site https://bitbucket.org/geckofx/geckofx-29.0/issue/14/plugin-flash-not-working-since-xulrunner which stated to turn off the "Visual Studio hosting process" for the project and now YouTube video play with GeckoFX, but no videos play off xfinitytv's site (http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/watch-live-tv/).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1897

Answers (1)

Yoshi
Yoshi

Reputation: 3405

A bug has recently been fixed in CefSharp to make this possible. See this issue: https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues/843

What should work is:

  • setting CachePath
  • set the persist_session_cookies command line argument
  • after OnContextInitialized, call Cef.SetCookiePath

You'll need to use the latest version 39.0.1 to get access to the OnContextInitialized delegate.

Upvotes: 1

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