Video Buffer/Playback error

Have you tried Oneiric, it has much later drivers and kernel which will accommodate your hardware better

I'm not upgrading to the newer Ubuntu's until Gnome goes back to the 2.X interface or a better replacement for it is found. I find the Gnome 3 very hard to use.

It shouldn't be the drivers. I just installed them about a week ago. I was wondering if the problem might be something like a buffering setting. When I first started Firefox, it gave the option of three or four plug-ins to chose from to play flash. Is it possible to remove the current one and try one of the others? I can't find a remove button anywhere.

Gnome2 is not developed by the Gnome team, it is a dead project. There is CLementine and Mate which are Gnome 2 forks and not supported by the Ubuntu commiunity, or you can use XFCE instead, it looks and smells like Gnome2

Can you give the output of:

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

I noticed you mentioned firefox so I imagine you mean FLASH video in (crappy) firefox. I was under the impression you meant proper players like mplayer. Can you please make your questions clearer in future

Thanks

rufus@Rufus:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a; dpkg -l | egrep 'flash|gnash|swf|spark'
Linux Rufus 2.6.32-37-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 20:32:42 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
ii flashplugin-installer 11.1.102.55ubuntu0.10.04.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer

The word flash in the last line is in bright red.

Yes, I'm playing Youtube videos in Firefox using the "Shockwave Flash" plug-in. Is it possible to play Youtube videos in a real media player like VLC?

Shockwave no longer owns flash, Adobe does.

Can you give the output of:

sudo updatedb; locate libflashplayer.so

Thanks

rufus@Rufus:~$ sudo updatedb; locate libflashplayer.so
[sudo] password for rufus:
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
/usr/share/ubufox/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

Yep, thought so, you are running 32bit flash via nspluginwrapper, this is no longer needed as there is 64bit flash and it is stable. If you run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove flashplugin-installer

Then enable the partner repo you should be able to install adobe-installer and get 64bit flash. It will run a LOT better

So then do I want to run this?

sudo apt-get install <adobe-installer>

I also found this package in the software center.

mozilla-plugin-gnash

What do I need to do to get the 64-bit flash?

Enable the partner repo and it should be available. Or you can download the 64bit flash and put it in the plugins folder of your browser