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My youtube videos won't show a thing but I can hear them.

Asked by SugarSweetVenom

For the past few days I've had this computer I haven't understood a thing , how to get unzip programs and how to check and delete my downloads . It's very frustrating since I know nothing about this program and no one can help me . I downloaded flash plug ins and other stuff I need but after something happened I can only hear my youtube videos ... not see them ... and it's making me angry . I hate it and don't understand whats wrong . I might have taken off a program ... is there a system restore or anything ? Any help here ?

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SugarSweetVenom (lydiasoto) said : 		#1

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a163/capcat102/Screenshot-1.png[/IMG]

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SugarSweetVenom (lydiasoto) said : 		#2

This picture is shown where the video should be or where the add should be ...

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SugarSweetVenom (lydiasoto) said : 		#3

I kind of fixed it but sadly theres still the matter of play symbol showing over an image like adds or things requiring some sort of flash playing device I thing ...

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fizzix (ferrerna) said : 		#4

Does the actual youtube site work for you and play video?

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SugarSweetVenom (lydiasoto) said : 		#5

It does work , you just have to press the play symbol for the rest of the stuff to appear , the thing is that certain things that require flash now have to be clicked to appear . That and I can't do anything with the video and sometimes it freezes at simple parts when nothing is done and than the video continues ..

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Gergely Máté (sportember) said : 		#6

The play button on Flash content indicates that you probably have the SWFdec Flash-plugin installed. Although it's a nice plugin for some kind of use, it may not be suitable for you. You can try to remove it with the Synaptic package manager (or disable it in Firefox), and install another Flash-plugin. Firefox in Ubuntu offers 3 kinds of Flash-plugins when none is present. Chose an other!

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SugarSweetVenom (lydiasoto) said : 		#7

I have no idea how ... adobe isn't helping ... and theres no system restore to my knowledge ...

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#8

Please try this:

Clean firefox mozilla profile

Close all opened Firefox and try to delete your Firefox user setting open a terminal from applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
mv .mozilla .mozilla_old
and restart Firefox.

If you have a lot of bookmarks please export them before move your setting directory, then import them again from saved file into Firefox.
Also take note of your installed Firefox extensions, to reinstall them.

if this works then delete the .mozilla_old directory, from terminal, type:
rm -fr .mozilla_old

hope this helps

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