Adobe Flash and Ubuntu

[Derek Atkins]

Ryan Pugatch <rpug-vYTEC60ixJUAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Chris O'Connell wrote:
>
>> I just can't for the life of me figure out why this machine, which runs
>> without an issue for the first 3 tasks my father wants, can't watch a simple
>> flash video off from YouTube.
>> 
>
>
> This sounds like a video driver issue to me.  Try the proprietary 
> drivers if they are available.

FWIW I have NEVER had good luck watching youtube on Linux in the
browser.  What I do is go to the page, pause it in the browser, wait for
it to finish downloading, and then go to my terminal, run:

  ls -lt /tmp/Flash*

And then run:

  mplayer /tmp/FlashXXXXXX

mplayer ALWAYS plays the video just fine.  Flash never does.

YMMV,

> Ryan

-derek

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