video's don't play on any web brower that I try to use...

I am assuming you are talking about videos that use flash (these are the most common), to play these you require the flash program, open the software center and search flash, select the one which says flash plugin for mozilla and hit install, now videos should play next time you restart firefox.

already did it many times. does not help

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:01 AM, samuel <
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> Your question #206902 on Ubuntu changed:
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> samuel proposed the following answer:
> I am assuming you are talking about videos that use flash (these are the
> most common), to play these you require the flash program, open the
> software center and search flash, select the one which says flash plugin
> for mozilla and hit install, now videos should play next time you
> restart firefox.
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this happens in any web brower I try to use, all of them, maybe something
is wrong in ubuntu its self that the flash players from working.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:21 AM, wayne helton <
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> Your question #206902 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/206902
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> Status: Answered => Open
>
> You are still having a problem:
> already did it many times. does not help
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:01 AM, samuel <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
> > Your question #206902 on Ubuntu changed:
> > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/206902
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> > Status: Open => Answered
> >
> > samuel proposed the following answer:
> > I am assuming you are talking about videos that use flash (these are the
> > most common), to play these you require the flash program, open the
> > software center and search flash, select the one which says flash plugin
> > for mozilla and hit install, now videos should play next time you
> > restart firefox.
> >
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You could try installing the restricted extras package if you haven't done that (I always do and have never had an issue with flash), open terminal (Ctrl, Alt, T) then enter the following line and hit enter: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'

Thanks

It's not something to do with Ubuntu itself, it's yourconfig. Flash works absolutely fine here and I use Ubuntu.....

love@honeyboy-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep
'flash|gnash|swf|spark
> sudo lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux honeyboy-desktop 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42
UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
The program 'gnash' is currently not installed. The program 'spark' is
currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install spark
 You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install gnash-common
No command 'swf' found, did you mean:
 Command 'twf' from package 'thewidgetfactory' (universe)
 Command 'lwf' from package 'abinit' (universe)
 Command 'sdf' from package 'sdf' (universe)
 Command 'syf' from package 'alliance' (universe)
 Command 'sw' from package 'mira-assembler' (universe)
swf: command not found
love@honeyboy-desktop:~$

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Andrew K <
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> Your question #206902 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/206902
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Andrew K proposed the following answer:
> You could try installing the restricted extras package if you haven't
> done that (I always do and have never had an issue with flash), open
> terminal (Ctrl, Alt, T) then enter the following line and hit enter:
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
>
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Look at the command I gave then look at what you ran....they are not the same.