[gutsy]gnash 0.8.0 will not play youtube, auto codec installation not working, other videos not working

[Thomas Wolfe]

Binary package hint: gnash

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474596
I had both gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (video codecs for youtube) and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (audio codec for youtube) installed, and youtube would not play, just totally blank, plays audio for a second and then just goes blank. I tried out uninstalling those two packages, and going to youtube and I got an error with the auto install stuff (will attach screenshot).
Then I tried to watch some old weebl and bob videos, and none really work properly, audio plays, but the video is flickering a lot, unwatchable (will also post screenshot). this is all with compiz disabled.

http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/pie.htm

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

What package are you using to provide gnash support? What browser are you using? What version of the gnash package are you using?

[Thomas Wolfe (tomwolfe)]

mozilla-plugin-gnash (to provide support in my mozilla based browser, and nonfree flash is uninstalled)
ephipahy 2.19
gnash 0.8.0~cvs20070611.1016-1ubuntu2

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Ok thank you I was testing with iceape and with firefox i have not yet tested with epiphany but doing that in a little while.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Testing done with epiphany.

1. Went to youtube.com and Opened a video
2. It played as expected
3. Uninstalled gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg to see if easy-codec-install works properly.
4. Clicked on video to play it and the easy-codec-install dialog popped up so i installed gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg as it said
5. Played video as expected

Browsers tested firefox 2.0, epiphany-browser, iceape-browser and all seems to work as expected.

Thomas are these the steps that you are doing or any part of them to reproduce this issue? Are you using 32bit or 64bit system to reproduce this issue?

mozilla-plugin-gnash:
  Installed: 0.8.0~cvs20070611.1016-1ubuntu2
gnash:
  Installed: 0.8.0~cvs20070611.1016-1ubuntu2
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: (none)

[Thomas Wolfe (tomwolfe)]

Using a 32 bit system. If it works for you, it must be something I am doing wrong, however, I really don't see what I am doing wrong.
1. Went to youtube.com and opened a video
2. it did not play as expected
3. uninstalled gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg AND gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly to see if easy-codec-install works properly.
4. clicked on video to play it, and the dialog popped up, tried to install and got the above error as listed in the screenshot.
5. video failed to play.

mozilla-plugin-gnash:
  Installed: 0.8.0~cvs20070611.1016-1ubuntu2
gnash:
  Installed: 0.8.0~cvs20070611.1016-1ubuntu2
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: (none)
(all the same packages as you.)

I do also have the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly from multiverse also installed, going to try to uninstall that and give it a go again, don't see how that would cause any problem, but I don't really see any other way to go about this.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Can you please attach a copy of your /etc/apt/sources.list file

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Try this sources.list file its the same as yours only using great briten instead of us. the us repos have been known to be slow and have issues.

[Thomas Wolfe (tomwolfe)]

Tried it, still no luck... Interesting thing though, if I open a video from youtube in a background tab, it will play just fine (I can hear the audio and everything) once I click on the tab to see it, it stops.
Another thing to note, i left my computer for about 2 hours, when I came back, gnash was using 53% of my 512mb ram.
possibly an opengl bug or something? I am using an ati with the open drivers (radeon 9000 mobility).
Thanks though john

[Thomas Wolfe (tomwolfe)]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2856111&postcount=9
as requested, video does work in gmplayer with the opengl method (restarted it too to make sure).

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thomas,

Thank you for reporting this bug, I am going to talk to the person working on gnash on monday (maybe tomorrow but not counting on it) and see what he thinks about it.

[Thomas Wolfe (tomwolfe)]

Latest update for gnash in gutsy seems to have fixed it, i can watch youtube just fine (except for a few of the already known bugs).