gnash fails to play any youtube videos

[J. Bruce Fields]

Binary package hint: gnash

I look up a video I used to be able to play on youtube, e.g.:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aDqrW85RECE

On loading the page the square where the video turns briefly black, then white; nothing else happens. Right-clicking on the video gets gnash's context menu. In particular, I can get the url of the video itself with File->Properties. If I run that with

gnash http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/watch-vfl44017.swf

then the gnash window pops up but just stays blank (white).

I get the same results with every youtube video I try. Most advertisements on youtube, however, appear to display correctly.

I can't remember exactly when this stopped working, but I'm sure this worked on Gutsy. I'm now on Hardy, with gnash version 0.8.2-0ubuntu3.