no video image, sound only, on fox news site using adobe flash player 9 on an ubuntu system

[John]

Binary package hint: firefox

summary says it all. I have a IBM Thinkpad laptop and when I go to the FOX newsite, I do not see any of the videos.
The sound is ok.
On CNN I can see the video. Not sure if it is using a flash plugin, though.

I am running the absolute latest Ubuntu rhyming animal release, too.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 18 20:29:17 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux squid 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:37:12AM -0000, John wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox
>
> summary says it all. I have a IBM Thinkpad laptop and when I go to the FOX newsite, I do not see any of the videos.
> The sound is ok.
> On CNN I can see the video. Not sure if it is using a flash plugin, though.
>
> I am running the absolute latest Ubuntu rhyming animal release, too.

Most likely not a firefox bug

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status invalid

but a flashplugin one.

 affects ubuntu/flashplugin-nonfree
 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Hubert (hpereira)]

Hi,

I am a newbie - and want to do a course on the STRATOS. The flash wouldnt work - so I went to an Ubuntu help forum and did what I read. Still I can hear only sound - but no video. Can someone help ?

Thanks
hubert

THE TERMINAL OUTPUT as follows - Please let me know if I did anything
wrong:

hubert@hubert-desktop:~$ cd /tmp
hubert@hubert-desktop:/tmp$ sudo rm flashplugin-nonfree* -Rf
[sudo] password for hubert:
hubert@hubert-desktop:/tmp$ sudo rm flashplugin-nonfree* -Rf
hubert@hubert-desktop:/tmp$ sudo apt-get remove --purge
flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  flashplugin-nonfree*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 160kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 102473 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-nonfree ...
Purging configuration files for flashplugin-nonfree ...
hubert@hubert-desktop:/tmp$ wget
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10761023/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb
--09:22:35--
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10761023/flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb
           => `flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb'
Resolving launchpadlibrarian.net... 91.189.90.235
Connecting to launchpadlibrarian.net|91.189.90.235|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18,114 (18K) [application/x-debian-package]

100%[====================================>] 18,114 7.82K/s
ETA 00:00

09:23:21 (1.90 KB/s) - `flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb'
saved [18114/18114]

hubert@hubert-desktop:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i
flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 102467 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-nonfree (from
flashplugin-nonfree_9.0.115.0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (9.0.115.0ubuntu2) ...
Downloading...
--09:23:41--
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
           => `./install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz'
Resolving fpdownload.macromedia.com... 92.122.2.70
Connecting to fpdownload.macromedia.com|92.122.2.70|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3,036,127 (2.9M) [application/x-gzip]

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60.43 KB/s
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[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Fixed in Flash 10 for both i386 and amd64.