embedded video playback in blogger

Asked by C. Pergiel

Something is not quite right with my Linux system. I am running the current release of Ubuntu (Horrible Harry or whatever it's called, AKA Version 8.04), just updated this morning. I can play videos on the YouTube website (youtube.com) using Firefox, but when I embed a clip in my blog, it does not play well. I get the big triangle to start with. Click on that and I get an image and the control/status bar just below it. Click play (either small triangle) and ... things go South. Something seems to get jammed up. Response to the keyboard and mouse gets very slow. Occasionally the image will change, but it is not like it is playing. It just jumps from one scene to another.

Everything works fine on my Windows box.

My blog: www.pergelator.blogspot.com

P.S. I don't have any sound yet, but I suspect that may be a completely different problem.

P.P.S. I ran a search on "embedded video playback", before I tried to post this question and got zero results. Then as a first step to posting this question I enter the same string as a title. Click on "continue" and I get a list of possibly relevant questions. What does that say about the search function? Not too good, eh?

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Andreas Troschka (signupbox) said :
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I run the same Ubuntu installation here and FF reads the page and the video fine.
The only difference is most probably the way FF is installed on my system.
Please read my answer to question #47068. It helped in many cases.

My 50cents.

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C. Pergiel (c-pergiel) said :
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Thanks for replying. This problem has already been solved. See this post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5924732

Finding your answer to question#47068 took some doing. I used the search function and scrolled through the results looking for your name. That brings up another list. Search on that page for 47068 finally go me to your answer. This is web address I ended up with:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/47068

Surely there is an easier way to navigate this forum?

Your answer, while interesting, was a little confusing. I had no trouble with Firefox until I ran into this video problem. The Adobe plugin, now that I have it installed, seems to work fine. The other, open source plugin I used seemed to be the problem.