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Totem doesn't play videos when youtube is open in firefox.

Asked by Justin Johnson

When I have Firefox open with youtube, or even if youtube had been open but isn't currently, videos will only play very slowly with no sound in Totem. When I close firefox and then reopen the video, it plays fine. Not really a huge deal, but it is kind of annoying.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Sorry, can't reproduce the issue here, able to run Website- and Totem YouTube video both with sound.
Which Ubuntu version?
I use PulseAudio on HardyLTS with package 'libflashsupport', installed via Synaptic.

Reference:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Video
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup

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Justin Johnson (justin10054) said : 		#2

i installed that program, but now flash websites cause firefox to close unexpectedly.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

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Which Ubuntu version?

Which flashplayer? Version? App e.g. Adobe, gnash, swfdec?

What steps did you take to debug, any error messages when you start firefox and totem in a terminal and reproduce the issue?
Any related error messages in .xession-errors (hidden in /home/user) when reproducing?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnomeTerminal
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/60

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Justin Johnson (justin10054) said : 		#4

whoa. i'm pretty new to linux, most of that is way over my head.
i have ubuntu version 8.04. i think i have shockwave flash 9.0. i have yet to receive any error messages.

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#5

Thanks for the information and please take your time to read references.
In the meantime you may try some options.
Please open gstreamer-properties in system -> preferences
It will open also if you type the command in a terminal:
gstreamer-properties

There is a video tab, usually the output plugin is set to 'detect automatically'.
Please change this to 'X Window (no Xv)

Please test the behaviour of Totem and YouTube again.

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Justin Johnson (justin10054) said : 		#6

Thanks Sam, that solved my question.

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Justin Johnson (justin10054) said : 		#7

ok, that fixed the initial problem. thanks.
i still don't know if it fixed the problem with flash applications closing firefox, as it seems to do that rather sporadically.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#8

That's good news Justin. In case of taking further steps, I'd assume that Compiz is running, you may turn of visual effects; refering to my comment here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/68456

Enjoy Ubuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonQuestions
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faqs
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=a79084ef9b5538bff954b5a7aab94e18&t=801404