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facebook video unavailable immediatly after ubuntu update

Asked by Habib Tamala

every thing seems to work fine with me i can watch facebook video with no problem until ubuntu installs its periodic updates..(update of July 31) and since facebook videos gives to me a facebook error saying that the video is either removed or not available. the same videos works fine with winXP on my virtual box but with ubuntu nothing seems to work !!

can anybody gives me a hint how to resolve that !! I appreciate your help

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Habib Tamala (drpyro) said : 		#1

ok i solved it !!

from synaptic package Manager I removed:
1) adobe-flashplugin
2) swfdec-mozilla (Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macromedia Flash))
3) libswfdec-[version] the

Then i reinstalled lastest adobe-flashplugin

everything works now
i think there is a problem with mozilla swf decoder or an incompatibily with adobe flash player plugin

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cako (goldencako) said : 		#2

Same happened to me. All I had to do was uninstall "swfdec-mozilla" and "libswfdec-0.8"

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Praetor77 (geramses) said : 		#3

I can confirm that all you need to do is to uninstall "swfdec-mozilla" and "libswfdec-x.x". Make sure you have the latest adobe-flashplugin installed in the correct folder (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins for me, Ubuntu 9.04).

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Kisma (kismawan-then) said : 		#4

Thanks for the valuable info!!

Same problem happened to my Ubuntu.
I only uninstalled following installation on my "Synaptic Package Manager":
- swfdec-mozilla
- libswfdec

(We can get into the Synaptic thru System>Adiministration>Synaptic Package Manager).

And now I can see the Facebook video again.

Thanks again.