Controls in video player no longer work

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

Binary package hint: nspluginwrapper

Playing a youtube video the controls no longer work. I can't pause the playback or maximise to full screen, or use any of the other controls on the video.

See attached screencast for an example. In the video I try to pause the youtube video, slide the timer along, click the timer, click various other features, and even have trouble clicking the options in the flash player settings dialog.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 11 20:38:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nspluginwrapper 1.2.2-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: nspluginwrapper
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/12/windows-7-review/ has an example of a video whose controls wont play.

[Martijn vdS (martijn)]

Lots of flash scripts don't accept clicks anymore. For extra fun, try www.paradiso.nl -- it has background sound which tends to crash the flash plugin.

[Jonathan Blackhall (johnny-one-eye)]

Just to update this with some info, if you right click on a Flash embed and then double-click the controls nearby (surrounding the right-click menu), you can get the controls to work. Not sure how I discovered that, but it's what i've been doing. See attached screencast.

[mogwai (scruffy-mogwai)]

Having the same problem. Will try Jonathan's video suggestion. If it is happening in Win7 as well, could be a Adobe bug.

[mogwai (scruffy-mogwai)]

Tried what was suggested on video. Kinda works, but is extremely temperamental. Sometimes 2 right-clicks and I can use the controls once, maybe twice. Other times it takes several (half-dozen if not more).

[Dariel Dato-on (odd-rationale)]

This may be a duplicate of bug #410407

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/410407