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why can't I play video on youtube. I have just upgraded from 9.10 to 10.4, it use to be normal before...

Asked by robertniez1961

Binary package hint: firefox

I'm having problem playing (video) youtube I received "an error occured, please try again latter" before it's working perfectly until I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 10.4. I use to have Ubuntu 9.10. Can somebody help me with this?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 8 22:25:23 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

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This question was originally filed as bug #603447.

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robertniez1961 (robertniez) said : 		#1
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Mitch Towner (kermiac) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

Thanks

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Titan (firuzvanquisher) said : 		#4

You may try to download adobe flash plugin 10 , from ubuntu software center.
i had a little similar type of problem and it was solved by downloading adobe flash plugin 10.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

If you have more than one flash plugin they will conflict. Hence the request for the output, if you have gnash swf-dec and the closed source flash installed at the same time you will get nothing.

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ignoble (8-launchpad-10-wech-spamgourmet-com) said : 		#6

I have the same problem, but I have definitely not more than one flash player installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf
ii anki 0.9.9.8.6-2~lucid1 extensible flashcard learning program
ii flashplugin-installer 10.1.102.65ubuntu0.10.04.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
rc mnemosyne 1.2.1-2ubuntu1 spaced repetition flash-card program
rc gnash-common 0.8.7-0ubuntu1 free SWF movie player - common files/librari
rc mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.7-0ubuntu1 free SWF movie player - Plugin for Mozilla a
rc libswfdec-0.8-0 0.8.4-1build1 SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder library

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

sudo dpkg -P mnemosyne gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash libswfdec-0.8-0; sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-nonfree; sudo apt-get autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Should do it

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