unable to play video after new install, updates in Flash and Shockwave

[hearthand]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I have re-installed and uninstalled flash, shockwave, all the players available and I can't get most video to run on any page.
I can get video from NY Times in the ads...not the active imbedded videos on the video news page,
no video on the daily show, colbert report....
Realtime/HBO works for certain clips but not all...
When I right click the properties show SWFdec 0.8.0 and I can't seem to upgrade to the next version....

Adobe's Flash page tells me in most options I have Linux , but won't download the Ubuntu option....
The test page doesn't load correctly...

I'm out of ideas...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/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 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Package effected I believe to be a problem with flashplugin-nonfree package. Marking as such

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Adding information from Florian (in a dup)
My workaround is as follows:

- remove flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper
- download flashplayer from adobe labs (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html)
- do a "tar xvfz" on the downloaded file (actual libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz)
- copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Restart firefox and enjoy.

Florian

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

This seems to be a pretty major problem with flashplugin-nonfree for x86_64. There is a .deb file located with debian, so install at your own risk. http://packages.debian.org/sid/flashplugin-nonfree

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

disregard what brian suggests. if you followed his instructions remove those files/packages again and install flashplugin-nonfree (or in jaunty flashplugin-installer) again. Your problem is that you are using swfdec. Remove swfdec-mozilla package from your system:

 sudo apt-get remove --purge swfdec-mozilla
 sudo apt-get install --reinstall flashplugin-nonfree

and ensure that the npwrapper. for libflashplugin.so is selected by running:
 sudo update-alternatives --config xulrunner-addons-flashplugin

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

(sorry forgot): on jaunty its not flashplugin-nonfree, but flashplugin-installer

[Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare