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i cannot open utube and watch a video

Asked by wayne hammerich

right know i have totem as my video player, dont ask me how i ended up with totem i dont know. before i reinstalled ubuntu i had media player it worked for everything know i am limited to totem which i dont understand. i cannot open attachments in email, right know i have one in htm that is supposed to open in utube but wont. HELP PLEASE

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Tom Haddon (mthaddon) said : 		#1

Not sure what you mean by "media player" before. I don't think that's the name of an application in Ubuntu. Totem is the default media player application, so if you reinstalled Ubuntu, that's why you will have it as your media player. What isn't working for you with Totem? Also, do you mean someone has sent you an htm file (i.e. the page source to a webpage), or they've sent you a link via email that you can't open? Which email program are you using?

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wayne hammerich (carwash61) said : 		#2

i am sorry tom for not explaining it right, yes it is an email i am using thunderbird. also no videos work i cannot figure out how to get them to work with totem it is a little complicated for me. thanks for answering tom wayne

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Bharadwaj Jaya (bharadwaj-j) said : 		#3

you tube is no way concerned with tottem did you install flash plugins?

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Best Tom Haddon (mthaddon) said : 		#4

Bharadwaj is right, Youtube is an website - so you would access it with a browser (like Firefox). Typically when you go to the site, if the Flash plugin that's required isn't installed, you'll be prompted to install it.

I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with Thunderbird, so someone else can probably help you better there, but just to make sure, are you trying to click on a link (such as http://www.ubuntu.com ) in an email someone has sent you, or are you trying to open an attachment that's a webpage someone has sent you (it would be very strange for them to send you a web page as an attachment - typically they'd send you a link that you would click on it and it would then open in your default browser, which in Ubuntu is typically Firefox).

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wayne hammerich (carwash61) said : 		#5

okay i have solved the problem, thanks to everyone that had input to solve my problem. the way i solved it was i had to go into add and remvove apps and i uninstalled gs streamers that was installed as default plugins, after that everything started to work. thanks again for all of your answers