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Mozilla firefox 3.0.14 cannot play Internet flash video

Asked by HCunningham

I am running UNR 9.04 on Dell mini 9 - Mozilla Firefix 3.0.14 - Gnash 0.8.5 (Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999). I can open and play an SWF file. When I try to open a flash video on CNN or MSNBC it opens the player frame but will not play the video. When I open the debug console I see a lot of parsing warnings - see below for an example
Warning: Unknown property 'border-radius'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://launchpad.net/+icing/rev8532/style-3-0.css
Line: 585
Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'font-family'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
Line: 357

These may be unrelated but I did try to provide what I could.

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks in advance,

Howard Cunningham

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David Alvarez (letitbe2007) said : 		#1

have you tried using the Adobe 10 flash plugin? available through the add/remove

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Best wojox (wojox) said : 		#2

Purge everything and install from terminal with these commands:

sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-plugin-gnash
sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

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HCunningham (hlcunningham) said : 		#3

Installed Macromedia Flash Player 10.0 r32 from add/remove. Mozilla did
not recognize until I put a softlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins :
sudo ln
-s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

I disabled all other plugins and restarted Mozilla. I went to CNN and
MSNBC, loaded a video URL and verified that the Adobe plugin was loaded.
It would not play. As fast as it loaded I believe that the video stream
did not start. Adding this softlink worries me.

I hope that helps and I appreciate your help.

Howard
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 00:12 +0000, David Alvarez wrote:
> Your question #86070 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/86070
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> David Alvarez requested for more information:
> have you tried using the Adobe 10 flash plugin? available through the
> add/remove
>

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

> disabled all other plugins

Please try not only to disable, please purge other flash apps completely (this will incl. config files) to avoid conflicts.
In case flash apps can be installed any time again via Synaptic.
Make sure FF isn't running during installation/removing procedures. If Adobe doesn't work after a clean installation, try a reboot, although it shouldn't be necessary.
Other hints, enable cookies, java scripting, disable AdblockPlus.

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HCunningham (hlcunningham) said : 		#5

Well, actually he helped me to remove whatever was blocking. But in the end I had to take Adobe Flash 10.0 r32 from Adobe, download and install the DEB and then add the soft link below.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libf'lashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

When I restarted Firefo x and it could play videos from CNN, MSNBC and YouTube. I wish I knew what was the problem and how this dance fixed it.

My thanks also to David Alvarez.

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HCunningham (hlcunningham) said : 		#6

The 'he' referred to is wojox - sorry for the confusion.