After recent update, red youtube videos?

[Paddy Landau]

use this:
http://www.youtube.com/html5

Not for Firefox version 3, though.

"Pop out" button

Ooh, clever! Thanks, that works.

Would those experiencing this problems please post...

Affects: Both Firefox (3.6.14) and Chromium (9.0.597.107 (75357) Ubuntu 10.04)
Flash from repos: 10.2.152.27ubuntu10.04.1
gstreamer-properties: Video for Linux 2 (v4l2)
Video card:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915


I wonder whether there is a difference between people using 32-bit and 64-bit? I have 64-bit Ubuntu installed.

[MrEgg]

I wonder whether there is a difference between people using 32-bit and 64-bit? I have 64-bit Ubuntu installed.

You bet! I'm not affected on my Maverick 64 bit. See post #49.

Egg

[Paddy Landau]

You bet! I'm not affected on my Maverick 64 bit. See post #49.

Oh, that's interesting. My 64-bit is affected.

However, I notice you say you have flashplugin64-installer. I have flashplugin-installer.

I wonder, as an experiment, what would happen if I uninstall flashplugin-installer and install flashplugin64-installer. The only thing is, I don't know where to find flashplugin64-installer.

[MrEgg]

You have to get it from the ppa I mentioned in post #49

[saalikr]

I fixed mine by downgrading flashplugin-installer to 10.1

Just run

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer

Then download either

http://gt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_i386.deb

or

http://gt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/f/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb

depending on your system, and install the .deb.

Then lock the flashplugin-installer version in synaptic (it will stop it from updating). Unlock it once we know 10.2 is bug-free.

Now, I use chromium-browser (daily ppa), and there is a little inconvenience: it'll always ask for the plugin to be updated. So you just need to click on "run this time", and it'll work normally. But the next time you open another youtube video, it'll ask for the update again.

Ah, by the way, this proves that it's not a youtube issue (I thought it had to do with the new layout, but apparently it doesn't), but a flashplugin 10.2 issue.

Thanks weirdguille. I followed your advice and now it works perfectly.
I am so glad I am a Linux user with knowledge and assistance like this so readily available.
Keep up the good work all.

[Katten Jansson]

How to fix this!

This procedure worked for me. The reasons given why it works is speculations.Youtube use faulty/outdated preferences for showing video, it get those from cookies that the site have set previously. Youtube seem to use some kind of "super cookie" (it use reduntant places to store information in order to make it harder for you to delete it), so you have to clean out both flash cookies and web-browser cookies and cache, otherwise youtube will restore the old preference after some time and go back to displaying pink videos.

Close all Youtube, Google, et.c. affiliated pages in the browser(s).

Remove flash cookies
Use a tool like better privacy or do it manually.

Remove browser cookies and clear cache
Do this for all browsers that you use (or it will reset the Flash preferences shared by all browsers).


Update: I found a Wikipedia-article describing these kind of cookies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie

[nilarimogard]

I've made a list of all the possible fixes and how to apply them: Fix red YouTube videos bug.

I hope it helps...

[Paddy Landau]

You have to get it from the ppa I mentioned in post #49

Thanks. I struggled to find out how to do that, but I have found out now:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash

I uninstalled flashplugin-installer, installed flashplugin64-installer (version 10.3.169.29-0ubuntu0~sevenmachines2), installed all updates, and rebooted just in case. Unfortunately, it has not fixed the problem.

[MrEgg]

I uninstalled flashplugin-installer, installed flashplugin64-installer (version 10.3.169.29-0ubuntu0~sevenmachines2), installed all updates, and rebooted just in case. Unfortunately, it has not fixed the problem.

Since your system was originally affected by the bug, maybe you can try clearing out all YouTube cookies and all cache again.

[Paddy Landau]

Since your system was originally affected by the bug, maybe you can try clearing out all YouTube cookies and all cache again.

I did that. It worked -- until I logged in again! I'll use the pop-out method until this is fixed.