YouTube does not work on Chromium BUT it does on Firefox!

[amjjawad]

Hi,

Xubuntu 12.04.3 - 3.2.0-57-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux

I am using two browsers:

Chromium:

Version 31.0.1650.63 Ubuntu 12.04 (31.0.1650.63-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~20131204.1)

Firefox:

26.0

I am having hard time with Chromium when it comes to YouTube.

youtube.png

However, the very same video on YouTube, on the very same system on the very same machine works like a charm on Firefox!

Odd enough, some videos work on Chromium but the majority that I click on don't work unless I use Firefox.

Any idea what is wrong?

Yes,

xubuntu-restricted-extras

is installed

Thank you in advance!

[grier-devon]

Did some searching and could not find anything, the only two things I could suggest is uninstall the restricted extras and then install them again. The other option would be to install the Pepper Plugin from Chrome into Chromium. I know that is proprietary but so is the Adobe Flash plugin and pepper will always give you the latest Flash player which is nice. Just....

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:skunk/pepper-flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pepflashplugin-installer

sudo apt-get install gksu #it`s not installed by default in Ubuntu 13.04
gksu gksu gedit /etc/chromium-browser/default

. /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/pepflashplayer.sh

EDIT: Did you also look to make sure it is enabled under plugins?

[amjjawad]

Okay, I just did a test right now and I found out something very odd and strange:

First of all, all videos on Facebook, I can watch these normally on Chromium without any problem. And I mean 'Videos' NOT youtube links.

As for youtube links on Facebook, inside facebook, I can watch normally but if I click on the youtube link and a new tab for youtube will be opened I will not be able to watch anything:

youtube.png

Refresh will not fix the issue. Clearing the cache did not fix the issue too.

Guess what? which is really odd:
If I click on different video (any) and go back to the previous one that didn't work on the first place, it will work!

I just can't explain what is going on? I mean, I have no idea why is that?

With Firefox, I don't have this problem, never had it.

[finny388]

I have the exact same problem
Started a few weeks ago

On youtube, every so often, maybe every 8th video, won't play (this video is currently unavailable). Copy and paste url to firefox and it always works.
I'm also on 12.04 (voyager, xubuntu)

I just tried clicking on any other video, then hit the back button and voila, the video that wouldn't play now plays

very frustrating

[amjjawad]

I have the exact same problem
Started a few weeks ago

On youtube, every so often, maybe every 8th video, won't play (this video is currently unavailable). Copy and paste url to firefox and it always works.
I'm also on 12.04 (voyager, xubuntu)

I just tried clicking on any other video, then hit the back button and voila, the video that wouldn't play now plays

very frustrating

Don't get me wrong but it feels better when someone has the very same problem

Hope we could find a solution for this

[monkeybrain20122]

Have you checked this?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/23487...ly-unavailable

[amjjawad]

Have you checked this?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/23487...ly-unavailable

Hi,

Thank you for posting

I just installed:

apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

dpkg: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 chromium-browser depends on chromium-codecs-ffmpeg (>= 0.6) | chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (>= 0.6); however:
  Package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg is to be removed.
  Package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is not installed.
(Reading database ... 166759 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing chromium-codecs-ffmpeg ...
Selecting previously unselected package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.
(Reading database ... 166756 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (from .../chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_31.0.1650.63-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~20131204.1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (31.0.1650.63-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~20131204.1) ...

Videos now on YouTube works for the first 3 seconds ONLY then BLACK Screen!!

[amjjawad]

I did 're-install':

chromium-browser

and

xubuntu-restricted-extras

I will check/test Chromium with YouTube and see whether that will make any difference or not!

[monkeybrain20122]

This may shed some light?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/is...tail?id=250139

Sorry you got black screen from the AskUbuntu link. I don't use Chromium.

[amjjawad]

This may shed some light?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/is...tail?id=250139

Sorry you got black screen from the AskUbuntu link. I don't use Chromium.

Hi,

Thank you again, I have added my comment and I am not sure if reporting this as a bug using 'ubuntu-bug' will help? It might be hard to re-produce that for some!