unable to play embedded video

[manolomanolo]

Cannot interact (play directly or open the related page on youtube and so) with embedded video on several pages, for example:
http://www.meetup.com/Gli-amici-di-Beppe-Grillo-di-Napoli/messages/boards/thread/9182540

and this is the code of the embedded element



<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7jtr7xMiAsU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=it_IT&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7jtr7xMiAsU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=it_IT&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>


Moreover, please see the grey bar on the bottom of the screenshot. That bug presents when playing videos directly from YouTube too.

Running Firefox 3.6.3 on Ubuntu 10.04
flashplugin-installer 10.0.45.2ubuntu1

Any suggestion, please?
Thanks.

[shaka_zulu]

Did you try some other browser?

[freacert]

same problem here. upgraded yesterday to lucid, no video on youtube nor in firefox, opera, chrome. Amd and nvidia

[shaka_zulu]

Upgrade usually brings some problem and regular users should try to avoid it. Clean install should be matter of preferation.

[manolomanolo]

Same problem with Chromium 5.0.342.9 (43360) Ubuntu
My ubuntu 10.04 is fresh installed.

[freacert]

fixed for opera by installing through synaptic the "flashplugin-nonfree
Adobe Flash Player plugin installer (transitional package)"
firefox and chrome still not working.

[shaka_zulu]

Can you play youtube or Vimeo normally or not?

[WinRiddance]

Try and follow the directions on this page ... ignore the $ symbol at the beginning of the code. Don't pick and choose, just start at the top and follow the steps listed there:

http://www.ubuntu.steinfein.org/ztip01_multimediamp3.html

That's supposed to enable all of your DVD, MP3, and other Video options in Lucid.

[freacert]

Firefox youtube now working as well.
Uninstalled the "mozilla-plugin-gnash
free SWF movie player - Plugin for Mozilla and derivatives" and now firefox uses

about:plugins
Archivo: libflashplayer.soVersión: Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

Google chrome still not working, but as long as firefox is fine, i am happy with her.

Archivo: libflashplayer.soVersión: Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
Vimeo works fine aswell.

[shaka_zulu]

Put [SOLVED] in the tread name ;)

[freacert]

for me, but maybe not for the tread starter manolomanolo :-P

[lovinglinux]

Install FLASH-AID (http://flash-aid-extension.blogspot.com) extension for Firefox. It will remove conflicting plugins and install the proper flash version according to your browser architecture.

If you don't use Firefox or prefer to fix the problem from command-line, then see the Flash Optimization (http://firefox-tutorials.blogspot.com/2010/05/flash-optimization.html) section of Firefox optimization and troubleshooting thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1193567).

[manolomanolo]

Try and follow the directions on this page ... ignore the $ symbol at the beginning of the code. Don't pick and choose, just start at the top and follow the steps listed there:

http://www.ubuntu.steinfein.org/ztip01_multimediamp3.html

That's supposed to enable all of your DVD, MP3, and other Video options in Lucid.

This did not worked. I followed the instructions, installed everithing (except w32codecs which was not found) and restarted Firefox but I cannot still see embedded videos

[manolomanolo]

Install FLASH-AID (http://flash-aid-extension.blogspot.com) extension for Firefox. It will remove conflicting plugins and install the proper flash version according to your browser architecture.

If you don't use Firefox or prefer to fix the problem from command-line, then see the Flash Optimization (http://firefox-tutorials.blogspot.com/2010/05/flash-optimization.html) section of Firefox optimization and troubleshooting thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1193567).

that fu*kin works!!! Thank you!!!!

[lovinglinux]

that fu*kin works!!! Thank you!!!!

:) You are welcome.

[manolomanolo]

thank you lovinglinux...
A similar tool for java would rock too!!!

Have you planned to make something similar for java too?

[lovinglinux]

thank you lovinglinux...
A similar tool for java would rock too!!!

Have you planned to make something similar for java too?

I haven't thought about that, but it could be done. I did this one because of the amount of threads asking for help. Although there are also threads with java issues, is not like flash, which has dozens of threads every week. I will think about it anyway.

[luceerose]

Try and follow the directions on this page ... ignore the $ symbol at the beginning of the code. Don't pick and choose, just start at the top and follow the steps listed there:

http://www.ubuntu.steinfein.org/ztip01_multimediamp3.html

That's supposed to enable all of your DVD, MP3, and other Video options in Lucid.

The person who wrote that guide should have left out non-free-codecs & included ubuntu-restricted-extras instead.