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Opera problem with YouTube

Asked by Salix

I have Xubuntu 9.04 with Opera 9.64 but I can't see the YouTube videos. I can hear the sound but I see only a big white square. Apart from that flash seems to be working. I can even watch the embedded video on unite.opera.com but not on the YouTube. The plugin should be OK as it works fine in Firefox. Any idea what to check?

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This question was originally filed as bug #394804.

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Salix (salix-freemail) said : 		#1
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Dick Thomas (xpd259-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

What flash are you using
gnash , adobe ?
this will help in the debugging

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Salix (salix-freemail) said : 		#3

Adobe Flash 10 r22

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) said : 		#4

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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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#5

You may want to refer to Opera for documentation on how to install plugins.

http://www.opera.com/docs/linux/plugins/

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Salix (salix-freemail) said : 		#6

I did.

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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#7

and?

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Salix (salix-freemail) said : 		#8

As I installed the plugin as described (in Synaptic as ubuntu-restriced-extras) I did not feel it neccessary to reinstall it after reading the pages you refered to. At the same time I can confirm the problem reported earlier (and was identified as "question" instead of "bug" by the administrators). The plugin works fine in Firefox. In some cases Opera manages to show the flash animation (e.g. on unite.opera.com). But I can't see the videos on YouTube.

These signs make me sure that the plugin is OK and the installation went as needed.

Any further tipp or additional reference what could be checked?

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Salix (salix-freemail) said : 		#9

From the log of #xubuntu channel of irc.freenode.net on 2009-07-04:

21:17 ramrod S0210, i have solved my opera flash problem
21:18 ramrod i downloaded the libflashplayer.so here http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
 ramrod and in opera i linked to it, now it works
22:02 S0210 ramrod: do you mean the libflashplayer.so? where have you put it? how did you lnked to it in Opera?
 ramrod i put it into /usr/lib/opera/plugins
22:03 ramrod and then under tools > preferences
 ramrod advanced > content
 ramrod and then at the plugin options
 ramrod change path and add
22:04 ramrod but i tried it with the .so file on the desktop and it worked either you only have to put the right path in the plugin options
 ramrod wait are you using 64bit jaunty?
22:08 S0210 ramrod: yes
 S0210 ramrod: it works
 ramrod ok cool

Actually the page suggested by Jeruvy also leads to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash and its "Flash for AMD64 and PPC" section mentions this option.

Possible source of the problem might be that "the flashplugin out of the repos is wrapped by an 32bit wrapper" and on 64 system "this may be a problem for opera".