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Firefox no longer plays embedded videos after installing ubuntu 10.04

Asked by david smith

Hi all

I have just upgraded from linux 9.10 to 10.04 and had two problems as a result, the first is now solved and I have my screen resolution back. However, firefox now does not recognise or play embedded video files, which previously gave no problem at all. Have tried a number of avenues (installed the latest flash player from adobe) to no avail - any ideas?

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

Thanks

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david smith (djs-macgabhan) said : 		#2

Hello again

The output was as follows

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
Linux macgabhan-laptop 2.6.32-24-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 5 09:22:14 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
ii flashplugin-installer 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii flashplugin-nonfree 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.3 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer (transit
macgabhan@macgabhan-laptop:~$ dpkg -l | grep swf
ii libswfdec-0.8-0 0.8.4-1build1 SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder library
ii swfdec-mozilla 0.8.2-1ubuntu2 Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macromedia Fla

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Yep, too many plugins. If you have more than one, they conflict and you get nothing. This command will clean you up:

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-mozilla; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove; sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Should be fine.

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david smith (djs-macgabhan) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.