Hulu and Miro

[andrea000]

Anyone had a problem with miro playing flash video's
from hulu or any website?Would anyone have a work
around for it.I am not having a problem with flash
just fixed that a few days ago and i can play a video
from hulu but not with miro.

[pytheas22]

Perhaps you don't have the codecs installed that Miro needs to play video. The easiest way to install codecs is via the ubuntu-restricted-extras package. To install it, just type:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

When it's done installing (it may take a while to download the package), restart Miro and see if it works better.

[andrea000]

Thank you that worked

[mickey12gauge]

I'm having a similar problem but I already have ubuntu-restricted-extras package installed and still unable to use Miro's "sites" tab. I keep getting the following message:

Sorry! Sites aren't supported on Linux due to an incompatibility with the Flash plugin.

[pytheas22]

mickey12gauge: which version of flash do you have installed on your computer? Are you using the plugin from Adobe (installed via the package flashplugin-nonfree) or one of the free players (gnash or swfdec)?

Also, is your computer 32 or 64-bit?

If you don't know the answer to these questions, please post the output of these commands:

locate flash | grep firefox
uname -rm

[mickey12gauge]

mickey12gauge: which version of flash do you have installed on your computer? Are you using the plugin from Adobe (installed via the package flashplugin-nonfree) or one of the free players (gnash or swfdec)?

Also, is your computer 32 or 64-bit?

If you don't know the answer to these questions, please post the output of these commands:

locate flash | grep firefox
uname -rm

Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.22.87

I'm using the plugin from Adobe

2.6.27-11-generic i686

[pytheas22]

mickey12gauge: are you sure you don't have any other flash plugins installed anywhere? It seems that things should work with the Adobe plugin so I'm really not sure what's going on in your case. If you were on a 64-bit system, that could also potentially complicate things (because Adobe's plugin is 32-bit and requires a special wrapper (although a 64-bit Linux plugin has recently become available, but is still not the default in Ubuntu)), but that doesn't apply to your situation.

When I google the error message that you posted above, it returns virtually no results, which is strange--if this were a common problem, there should be more hits...

[gandaran]

Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.22.87

I'm using the plugin from Adobe

2.6.27-11-generic i686
the adobe flash plugin is installed in the firefox plugins directory and can only be used by a web browser, it won't work in miro unless you open the video in firefox.

[deshantm]

A few useful threads on the Miro help search reveal that they intentionally disabled Flash on Linux due to crashing.

See:

http://getsatisfaction.com/participatoryculturefoundation/topics/_sites_in_the_sidebar_doesnt_work_in_linux?utm_med ium=widget&utm_source=widget_participatoryculturefoundation

http://getsatisfaction.com/participatoryculturefoundation/topics/linux_support_should_be_universal?utm_medium=widge t&utm_source=widget_participatoryculturefoundation

http://getsatisfaction.com/participatoryculturefoundation/topics/why_does_the_site_feed_for_things_like_hulu_not_wo rk_under_linux?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_participatoryculturefoundation

http://getsatisfaction.com/participatoryculturefoundation/topics/no_flash_player?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_participatoryculturefoundation