Ubuntu 8.10 won't play streaming video or upload .jpg files

[morgan]

I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 ro 8.10 and have run into several problems with images in general. Streaming video from the web will not playing spite of the re-installation of all flash players that worked in 8.04. No error message or "plug-ins required" message is displayed. Also, whenever I attempt to upload a picture in .jpg format, I receive an error message that I am not uploading a .jpg file.

[Kenneth Venken (kenneth-venken)]

Which application are you using to upload the .jpg file?
Which flash plugin do you have installed?

[morgan (behappy9090)]

Thanx for getting back to me. Since I posted that Bug I have discovered that the problem only resides on my laptop ( a 3-year old Acer). My desktop PC seems to be fine. After some looking around I saw a post that indicated that certain video cards are no longer supported in 8.10. I don't know how to check my laptop to see what card it has installed. If that is the case, I'd like to downgrade back to 8.04 on my laptop only, but can't find any help links to do that, either. lol
Thanx again!

 Morgan
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From: Kenneth Venken <email address hidden>
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Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 7:08:44 AM
Subject: [Bug 307808] Re: Ubuntu 8.10 won't play streaming video or upload .jpg files

Which application are you using to upload the .jpg file?
Which flash plugin do you have installed?

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Ubuntu 8.10 won't play streaming video or upload .jpg files
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Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 ro 8.10 and have run into several problems with images in general. Streaming video from the web will not playing spite of the re-installation of all flash players that worked in 8.04. No error message or "plug-ins required" message is displayed. Also, whenever I attempt to upload a picture in .jpg format, I receive an error message that I am not uploading a .jpg file.

[Kenneth Venken (kenneth-venken)]

see http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-tell-which-graphics-vga-card-installed/

[jbourdon (jean-louis-bourdon)]

when you say streaming videos from the web, what kind is it? flash, mms, etc?
I think the problem of this bug report is that there are multiple issues, it should be split
-jpeg problem
-streaming videos
-graphics card problems

[IKT (ikt)]

"I'd like to downgrade back to 8.04 on my laptop only, but can't find any help links to do that, either. lol"

There's no real way to downgrade, best option is to reinstall or keep troubleshooting.

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Have you tried upgrading to Jaunty (9.04)? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.