Flash working for anyone?

[zekopeko]

as per the title.

it's installed but firefox won't pick it up.

[shuttleworthwannabe]

i was just about to post this too; anyway, any luck with Flash in FF and also does it play with sound?
I am using kernel *-7; pulse audio
sound works on my laptop but no sound in Flash animation though.

[philinux]

Working fine here. Latest nvidia driver and latest kernel. In fact it was only sound in flash that wasn't working. That got fixed a couple of weeks ago with an update.

[shuttleworthwannabe]

lucky you, then.

[philinux]

The OP did ask the question. I've not used any workarounds to fix things. Things got fixed via the normal updates.

Maybe a full reinstall is needed.

[homemadejam]

What version of Flash are you using?

Jam

[Sef]

1) Are you using 32 or 64-bit Ibex?

2) How did you install flash?

[jerrylamos]

Ubuntu Beta Flash 10.0 r12 video working on IBM Thinkpad R31, 32 bit Celeron 1gHz. Sound does not, Intel 82801CA-ICH3 (Alsa Mixer).

Flash was installed with Synaptic as part of ubuntu-restricted-extras.

I'm dual booted with Alpha 5, NOT UPDATED!!! Flash & sound working except some artifacts, snow, on the video.

Jerry

[Lorenz]

as per the title.

it's installed but firefox won't pick it up.

same problem here, tried removing and installing it, installing it manually, etc. Won't work. FF doesn't pick it up, as you said.

[xebian]

There are so many 'how to flash' around, but IMHO the only foolproof, correct and proper way is to install the flashplugin-nonfree metapackage especially if you are running 64-bit.

[smartboyathome]

Flash is working fine here installed from the repos.

[zekopeko]

i'm running 32bit ibex and i installed it with synaptic but firefox still doesn't pick it up. youtube is asking me to install flash and noscript isn't blocking youtube.
firefox even offers to install flash for me and says that it's already installed but still it's a no go. really weird.

i upgraded so it could be that i have a symlink from before (i was playing with flash 10beta on hardy). could somebody tell me where should flash be installed and symlinked?

[philinux]

Use places search and look for

libflashplayer.so

[zekopeko]

here it is

~$ locate libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

and there isn't a symlink that i can see (visually from nautilus.should there be a symlink to the firefox plugins folder?)

[philinux]

Thats correct thats all I've got.

Try closing firefox, browse to the .mozilla folder in home. Show hidden files. Navigate to the profile folder ????????.default.
Delete xpti.dat then restart firefox.

Other than that back up your bookmarks and delete the .mozilla folder altogether and let FF create a new one.

[zekopeko]

it's still not working. i completely deleted/moved the .mozilla folder.

[kansasnoob]

Hmmm, flash is working great here in Intrepid. You can see what's installed by typing:

about:PLUGINS

Note: plugins can be either upper or lower case, but if I use lower case I get this :p.

In addition to flashplugin-nonfree I install ALL sun-java6-**** EXCEPT -doc and -source, and also flashblock (or noscript), and mozilla-plugin-vlc and all vlc plugins (I remove totem-mozilla).

And I've found that sometimes just restarting Firefox doesn't get the changes to apply so I usually restart the desktop: Ctrl > Alt > Backspace.

The only other thing I can think of is checking which version of Firefox you have running.

[zekopeko]

i checked about:plugins and there isn't a section about flash. i have totem and java installed

[philinux]

All i can suggest is completely removing flashplugin-nonfree and reinstalling it. Maybe reboot too.

[quazi]

Flash works great for me in Intrepid except for one site (and it used to work there in Hardy): www.grooveshark.com

When I search for a song/artist, firefox takes me to a blank screen. Can anyone get that site to work?

[kansasnoob]

i checked about:plugins and there isn't a section about flash. i have totem and java installed


I wrote that poorly. Type about:plugins in the URL window of Firefox and you'll get a list like this:

Installed plugins
Find more information about browser plugins at mozilla.org.
Help for installing plugins is available from plugindoc.mozdev.org.
Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes
Default Plugin

File name: libnullplugin.so
The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
* All types .* No
Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux

File name: libunixprintplugin.so
The demo print plugin for unix.

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-print-unix-nsplugin Demo Print Plugin for Unix/Linux .pnt Yes
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_07-b06

File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_07

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-vm Java Yes
application/x-java-applet Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.5 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.6 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_07 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.5 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;version=1.6 Java Yes
application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6.0_07 Java Yes
VLC Multimedia Plug-in

File name: libvlcplugin.so
Version 0.9.4 Grishenko, copyright 1996-2007 The VideoLAN Team
http://www.videolan.org/

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
audio/mpeg MPEG audio mp2,mp3,mpga,mpega Yes
audio/x-mpeg MPEG audio mp2,mp3,mpga,mpega Yes
video/mpeg MPEG video mpg,mpeg,mpe Yes
video/x-mpeg MPEG video mpg,mpeg,mpe Yes
video/mpeg-system MPEG video mpg,mpeg,mpe,vob Yes
video/x-mpeg-system MPEG video mpg,mpeg,mpe,vob Yes
video/mp4 MPEG-4 video mp4,mpg4 Yes
audio/mp4 MPEG-4 audio mp4,mpg4 Yes
application/mpeg4-iod MPEG-4 video mp4,mpg4 Yes
application/mpeg4-muxcodetable MPEG-4 video mp4,mpg4 Yes
video/x-msvideo AVI video avi Yes
video/quicktime QuickTime video mov,qt Yes
application/x-ogg Ogg stream ogg Yes
application/ogg Ogg stream ogg Yes
application/x-vlc-plugin VLC plug-in vlc Yes
video/x-ms-asf-plugin Windows Media Video asf,asx Yes
video/x-ms-asf Windows Media Video asf,asx Yes
application/x-mplayer2 Windows Media Yes
video/x-ms-wmv Windows Media wmv Yes
video/x-ms-wvx Windows Media Video wvx Yes
application/x-google-vlc-plugin Google VLC plug-in Yes
audio/wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/x-wav WAV audio wav Yes
audio/3gpp 3GPP audio 3gp,3gpp Yes
video/3gpp 3GPP video 3gp,3gpp Yes
audio/3gpp2 3GPP2 audio 3g2,3gpp2 Yes
video/3gpp2 3GPP2 video 3g2,3gpp2 Yes
video/divx DivX video divx Yes
video/flv FLV video flv Yes
video/x-flv FLV video flv Yes
video/x-matroska Matroska video mkv Yes
audio/x-matroska Matroska audio mka Yes

[zekopeko]

well i did check in firefox the about:plugins, and i know about:config and about:mozilla pages.
i know my why around ubuntu/linux.

[MALEADt]

Doesn't work in here too: makes firefox & X spike to full cpu, and works very laggy. Works fine on another pc though, maybe a reinstall will work it out (gonna wait till final).

[Lorenz]

I have got the identical problem as zekopeko.
Did all the steps that were recommended here (not that I hadn't done them before already). Bottom line: Flash installed, but firefox doesn't pick it up.

[philinux]

Like I suggested before. Reinstall from a daily build.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

[swj]

I did have some minor flash issues (video artifacts) every once and while. Since the flash update (the other day?), I don't think I am having any more issues...I'll check it out tonight.

[zekopeko]

well i fixed it by doing a clean install. but somebody should file a bug.

[philinux]

well i fixed it by doing a clean install. but somebody should file a bug.

It could be some workarounds that you did. That's why i suggested a clean install.

[DougieFresh4U]

as per the title.

it's installed but firefox won't pick it up.

I am watching youtube, no problems at all