problems with video clips. (ray house)

Mon Apr 20 21:42:12 UTC 2009

Ray, you may have java-common installed, but please do a search in
Synaptic Package Manager to see if sun-java is installed. you don't
necessairily have sun-java installed if java-common is installed.

Regards,

Glen Merrick

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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:26:32 -0400
> From: ray house <v.2.ol at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: problems with video clips.
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> Hi everyone, it's Ray again, thank you David,Glen,Chris and Mac for all the great info you took the time to send me. Glen, the W32codecs are installed.Chris, I am using your suggested settings.David, I installed the Meta package and Mac, I checked the Ubuntu forum and I have the right packages.I have java-common 0.30ubuntu3 and flash player installed. Here is the situation; I am using a new Dell Vostro computer with Vista installed and I installed Ubuntu 8.1 along side it (to get used to linux). In Ubuntu I get Google videos OK but the screen intensity lowers and all freezes when I try to get youtube videos.When I am in Vista all types of video are displayed correctly. I dont know what is going on.I really appreciate all your help and I like linux and will probably get rid of Vista if I can resolve this problem. I am not a programmer and cant figure this out alone.  Thank you.
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> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:16:49 -0300
> From: gmerrick at chebucto.ns.ca
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> Haven't posted here in a while, but in regards to video clips and
> stuff, make sure that you have installed from Medibuntu the
> non-free-codecs, w32codecs package.  This one gives you all the
> "windows" codecs commonly used.
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> Also, if you install gstreamer, it will typically give you a list of
> stuff to install as well.  Other packages you may want to look at are
> mplayer, VLC (really good  media player) and my current favourite
> (because it handles fast forwarding and rewinding of videos better than
> VLC) Miro Internet TV application.
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> Trying to view youtube videos on an internet browser requires both Java
> and Flash.  I know that the sun java 1.6.0_10 works to view them and
> you want to have sun-java6-bin, sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-plugin
> installed.  You would be looking for flashplugin-nonfree and
> flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound.
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> One thing to about firefox is that if you have (AFAIK must installs)
> NoScript and Adblock Plus addons installed, they may be blocking
> youtube scripts that allow 
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> To answer the question about the screen greying out and freezing.  This
> is what happens in Ubuntu (from my experience) when a process begins to
> take up alot of resources and  your load level tends to go thru the
> roof.  this is your system  is trying to compensate for that extra load.
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> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:38:21 -0400
> From: "Andy Boersma" <andy at boersma.ca>
> Subject: RE: problems with video clips.
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> Hi Ray
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> Please follow the instructions from Medibuntu to get all the codecs and
> drivers
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> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
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> This should help you a lot.
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> Andy
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> [mailto:ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of ray house
> Sent: April-18-09 6:43 AM
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> Subject: RE: problems with video clips.
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> Hi David, First let me thank you for taking the time to answer my query. I
> am using Firefox as browser, When I check for drivers I get "no proprietary
> drivers are in use on this system". As for the restricted-extras I dont know
> which ones are required.  Thank you.
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>     Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:38:31 -0400
> Subject: Re: problems with video clips.
> From: david at ngowiki.net
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
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> First : Make sure that you have Installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras
> via synaptic
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> second : you have the proper video card driver installed via the menu
> system >> administration >> hardware drivers
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> question
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> " try to decode a video the screen darkens and freezes" inside
> firefox or else, please specify
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM, ray house <v.2.ol at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>       Good morning,  My name is Ray House and I have been using Ubuntu 8.1 for
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>       few weeks, I cant get the video clips from news sites and youtube , to
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>       I have asked for help on this in the other forums with no replies. When
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>       try to decode a video the screen darkens and freezes. I seem to have the
> correct synaptic packages downloaded. I really like Linux and so far
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>       the only problem that I have, any help will be greatly appreciated,
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