Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[Reset05]

Is the guide at the first post still valid with 8.10 Itrepid Ibex?

EDIT: Ok, by reading furthermore, i suppose so. My question may seem silly but, i won't make the mistake of following a how-to without knowing if it's up to date again...

[ubuntu-freak]

I followed the guide and yet flash doesn't work. I've used your guide on previous installs and it worked fine. I'm currently using 8.10 x64. Any idea why it might not work? I'm not sure, but I may have installed the 8.04 version and never the 8.10 version, if that makes any difference.

Did you check out the troubleshooting section? There's a 64-bit Flash Player plug-in now.

Is the guide at the first post still valid with 8.10 Itrepid Ibex?

EDIT: Ok, by reading furthermore, i suppose so. My question may seem silly but, i won't make the mistake of following a how-to without knowing if it's up to date again...

Yeah, it's for all released versions.

[zarcom]

Yeah, thanks for the post, now I have a better idea on where to get started with video editing and other various multimedia applications.

Thumbs up .

[augie2051]

thank you looks to be a lot of useful information. I just started using ubuntu last night. I will try this options and hopefully this will fix my problem. I now realize its not just when watching movies I ahve no sound on my cpu at all.

[ubuntu-freak]

thank you looks to be a lot of useful information. I just started using ubuntu last night. I will try this options and hopefully this will fix my problem. I now realize its not just when watching movies I ahve no sound on my cpu at all.

Make sure nothing has been muted and test a pair of headphones too.

My howto won't help if your sound device isn't supported, but some people have said their sound started working after completing my howto.

[ashwinipn]

Hi,
Currently I am experiencing a difficulty connecting remotely to my lab because of supposedly JAVA problem. When I try entering my particulars to make a tunnel and specify myself as RDP client, the page does not load and at the left bottom end of the browser, it keeps saying, "starting applets", but nothing happens after that. I have tried using Sun's JAVA as wll as openjdk6 (default in my system) without success. I have successfully connected through my wife's laptop (Windows Vista) as well as 32 bit Ubuntus (Gutsy, Hardy, as well as Intrepid) in the past. I am looking for Icedtea7, but not able to get.... Can anyone please tell me about that? I think for 64 bit Ubuntu Intrepid, that's what is required.
Thanks....

Ashwini

[ubuntu-freak]

You're a 64-bit user, yeah? IcedTea became OpenJDK, so your best bet is to wait for OpenJDK to reach the same compatibility as Sun Java, which will happen relatively soon.

[zim2dive]

I had a poorly working, but working flash install and ran (from the guide)

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common libflashsupport mozilla-plugin-gnash nspluginwrapper swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Now I have no flash at all.

Previously to get flash I did:

149 sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
151 sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
152 sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

why no more Flash?

This is with a (mostly) new install of 8.10

[psychomichael]

Well, my sound was working for a few weeks there...and now is back to sounding sluggish.

[bayvista]

Hi,
Thanks for the detailed Howto. I have a 32bit Hardy 8.04. Am trying to install Gecko and get the following message:

david@david-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer
[sudo] password for david:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-mplayer: Depends: mplayer (>= 1.0) or
mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
david@david-desktop:~$

Would appreciate some help...Thanks