Can't play Flash Videos after upgrade to 14.04

**bobnn** · October 28th, 2014

ETA 20141103 So the problem is NOT as originally stated - it only is an issue when using su, gksu, sux, etc - the Flash Player work fine for the user that logged in thru the graphic interface.

I just upgraded to 14.04.1 LTS and can no longer play Flash Videos.

IEvery vido I've clicked on in Facebook freezesd, and this was not happening a few days ago, before I upgraded from 12.04.

Videos in YouTube work also freeze the browser if you end up with a swf/Flash video - HTML5 vids are fine.

This is true on Firefox, Chromium and Chrome.

Getting a Flash video on youtube seems to be a matter of adding '&embed' to the basic URL before accessing any HTML5 videos ala:

Code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhTNu6ETd3s&embed

(almost all vids on youtube seem to be HTML5 now w/o the embed param - someday this Flash crap will just wither on the vine).

All vids in Facebook seem to be Flash is my guess.

Plugin info:

Chrome:

Code:

Adobe Flash Player - Version: 15.0.0.189
Shockwave Flash 15.0 r0
Name:	Shockwave Flash
Description:	Shockwave Flash 15.0 r0
Version:	15.0.0.189
Location:	/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
Type:	PPAPI (out-of-process)
 	Disable
MIME types:	
MIME type	Description	File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash	Shockwave Flash	.swf
application/futuresplash	FutureSplash Player.spl

Chromium:

Code:

Adobe Flash Player - Version: 15.0.0.189
Shockwave Flash 15.0 r0
Name:	Shockwave Flash
Description:	Shockwave Flash 15.0 r0
Version:	15.0.0.189
Location:	/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so
Type:	PPAPI (out-of-process)
 	Disable
MIME types:	
MIME type	Description	File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash	Shockwave Flash	.swf
application/futuresplash	FutureSplash Player	.spl

Those pepperflash plugins are copies:

Code:

$ md5sum /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
ec655d69a2c4a15a39d4fb1ac13591d6  /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so
ec655d69a2c4a15a39d4fb1ac13591d6  /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so


$ ll /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17350240 Oct 21 20:59 /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17350240 Oct 21 20:59 /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so

Firefox:
firefox.flash.plugin.png

**bobnn** · November 2nd, 2014

Here is a URL that locks right up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jP_WQIpVr4

There is also a firefox add-on that makes Flash the default.

Should I be opening a bug on this?

**bobnn** · November 4th, 2014

ARGHHH!!!!! So the problem is NOT as stated - it only is an issue when using su, gksu, sux, etc - the Flash Player work fine for the user that logged in thru the graphic interface.

It seems like a lot of different X things are breaking when I try to run as other than the graphically logged user - stuff that used to work just fine in 12.04 via sux or gksu.