Can't play movies when flash movie plays in firefox

[Camouflage]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Steps to reproduce:
- Open firefox and play any flash-based movie on any site like youtube.
- Now try to play any movie with mplayer.
- The movie will show, will play several frames, then pause, you can skip frames but it will be "paused" and it isn't possible to "unpause" it.

Expected results:
The movie will be played with mplayer.

The problem exists until the tab with flash is closed. This problem can be reproduced with other players like totem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 11 22:49:42 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:00:20PM -0000, Camouflage wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> - Open firefox and play any flash-based movie on any site like youtube.
> - Now try to play any movie with mplayer.
> - The movie will show, will play several frames, then pause, you can skip frames but it will be "paused" and it isn't possible to "unpause" it.

this is a dupe of a known issue that manifests itself in multiple
packages. firefox is not the problem though.

 status invalid

flashplugin is one of those packages.

 affects ubuntu/flashplugin-nonfree
 status new
 tag likely-dup

 - Alexander

[Camouflage (thecamouflage)]

Installing libflashsupport seems to resolve the issue.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:46:46PM -0000, Camouflage wrote:
> Installing libflashsupport seems to resolve the issue.
>

Remember that it causes plenty of crashes. So unless you are on amd64,
you probably dont want it.

 - Alexander

[Camouflage (thecamouflage)]

Actually it's quite stable for me on x86. Even if it crashes sometimes I prefer having unstable functionality than not having it at all.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Fixed in Flash 10 betas (1 and 2). You will need to use the pulse pcm+ctl type. See bug 192888.