video plugins for Firefox

[Pastor JW]

On Monday 03 August 2009 8:45:00 am Goh Lip wrote:
> Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
> > At this very moment my system has:
> >
> > gie at charon:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$ ls|m
> > nphelix.so
> > nphelix.xpt
> > nppdf.so
> > npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
> > gie at charon:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$
> >
> > Occasional videos on YouTube.com just have white screens and none of the
> > videos on onion.com play.
> >
> > It seems to be something more than just the npwrapper.
>
> Looks like you have correct flashplayer installed and also helix.
> I don't know if helix could interfere with flash but I doubt it.
> I do sometimes (but not often) have white screen especially if I just
> come over from another tab which has flash running also. I refresh and
> the flash works again.

Ubuntu seems to install different flashplayers in different places.  I don't 
know where it is supposed to be but if you search for libflashplayer.so on 
your /  ...and find more than one, you have found part of the problem.  Check 
the size of the different ones and delete or rename all those which are not 
that size you settled on then build a link from your good one to the place 
the bad one was.  It should all work then.  Why the Ubuntu installer does 
this is not known to me but it IS a problem.  A normal user ought not to have 
to repair the system on this level.  I found this out the other day when 
trying to play a flash game.  Installed 10 but couldn't get the browsers to 
use it.  I found four different libflashplayer.so files on my machine, each 
in a different directory but all in usr/lib/.  The one currently in place on 
my 8.04 install is Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32 and it seems to function 
everywhere I go.


 
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