Flash videos won't play.

[SlickStretch]

Whenever I go to YouTube with Firefox (ver. 20.0), the space where the video should be is empty. No black box or anything, and it does not show any warnings about plug-ins or flash or anything like that. When I try to use Chromium (ver. 25.0), it shows a yellow bar across the top of the screen which says "Could not load shockwave fla..." and there's a black box with a broken puzzle piece in it where the video should be.

I have installed "lubuntu-restricted-extras" and I have the latest version of flashplayer-installer (synaptic says version 11.2)

I am pretty new to linux, so go easy on me...

[SlickStretch]

101 people have read this and no one can help. That's a damn shame.

[lovebluesky2009]

strange, my chrome is never disappointed me, did you try to reinstall firefox, chrome and flash plugins?

[midnightramen]

i usually use the version at the official adobe site. They won't be updating it anymore, but still, it is fairly recent. Plus, it can play the DRM hulu episodes as well, but requires the HAL package to be installed.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

Regarding Chrome, there is a native Flash player in Chrome, which is why it works out of the box for youtube and the like.

[cibalo]

Hello,

I have the latest version of flashplayer-installer

You need adobe-flashplugin package.

Try:

sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin

[SlickStretch]

i usually use the version at the official adobe site. They won't be updating it anymore, but still, it is fairly recent. Plus, it can play the DRM hulu episodes as well, but requires the HAL package to be installed.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

When I try to download it, I get a pop-up saying "The channel 'raring-partner' is not known."

Regarding Chrome, there is a native Flash player in Chrome, which is why it works out of the box for youtube and the like.

Mine doesn't.

You need adobe-flashplugin package.

stretch@Z:~$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
[sudo] password for stretch: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package adobe-flashplugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'adobe-flashplugin' has no installation candidate
stretch@Z:~$

[cibalo]

Hi,

Mine doesn't.

stretch@Z:~$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
E: Package 'adobe-flashplugin' has no installation candidate
stretch@Z:~$

You need to enable the Canonical Partners repository before install as detailed in http://askubuntu.com/questions/14629...ner-repository.

[midnightramen]

you can try the partners repository above and "adobe-flashplugin" see if that works, although a "flashplugin-installer" should also be available in the "multiverse" repository. Its been a while for me, but I think that the "flashplugin-installer" just downloads a script that you'll have to execute: "sudo /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/install_plugin" probably.

Chrome should have Pepperflash built-in. In Chrome, go to "aboutlugins" (no quotes) and you should see a list of plugins. Click on the Details link on the right-hand side, and you should see the list of plugins, including "PepperFlash".

[SlickStretch]

Chrome should have Pepperflash built-in. In Chrome, go to "aboutlugins" (no quotes) and you should see a list of plugins. Click on the Details link on the right-hand side, and you should see the list of plugins, including "PepperFlash".

I don't see anything called pepperflash. Just "Macromedia Flash Plugin"

You need to enable the Canonical Partners repository before install as detailed in http://askubuntu.com/questions/14629...ner-repository.

I enabled the partner repository, and installed adobe-flashplugin. Everything seemed to go fine, but still no change. No flash video.

Just in case it's helpful...

stretch@Z:~$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
[sudo] password for stretch: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  adobe-flash-properties-gtk
Suggested packages:
  konqueror-nsplugins x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  flashplugin-installer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  adobe-flash-properties-gtk adobe-flashplugin
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,729 kB of archives.
After this operation, 17.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ raring/partner adobe-flashplugin i386 11.2.202.285-0raring1 [6,598 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ raring/partner adobe-flash-properties-gtk i386 11.2.202.285-0raring1 [131 kB]
Fetched 6,729 kB in 3s (1,945 kB/s)             
(Reading database ... 139185 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-installer ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
Selecting previously unselected package adobe-flashplugin.
(Reading database ... 139165 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking adobe-flashplugin (from .../adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.285-0raring1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package adobe-flash-properties-gtk.
Unpacking adobe-flash-properties-gtk (from .../adobe-flash-properties-gtk_11.2.202.285-0raring1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up adobe-flashplugin (11.2.202.285-0raring1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so to provide /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so (mozilla-flashplugin) in auto mode
Setting up adobe-flash-properties-gtk (11.2.202.285-0raring1) ...
stretch@Z:~$

[cibalo]

Hello,

The following extra packages will be installed:
adobe-flash-properties-gtk
Suggested packages:
konqueror-nsplugins x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
flashplugin-installer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
adobe-flash-properties-gtk adobe-flashplugin
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Setting up adobe-flashplugin (11.2.202.285-0raring1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so to provide /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so (mozilla-flashplugin) in auto mode
Setting up adobe-flash-properties-gtk (11.2.202.285-0raring1) ...
stretch@Z:~$ [/CODE]

You may have a broken flashplugin-installer installed previously.

Have a look at aboutlugins in your firefox and see if you can see the following lines.
Shockwave Flash
File: libflashplayer.so
Version: 11,2,202,285
State: Enabled
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

Now, go to youtube with your firefox.