Video Playback in Firefox

Scott geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com
Sun Dec 17 11:28:58 UTC 2006


Chris Rohde spake thusly on 12/16/2006 06:55 PM:
> Heya All,
> So, I've recently noticed that in both Firefox and Flock I can only get 
> maybe 2 or 3 seconds worth of video playback, mostly in youtube videos. 
> Any idea why? I see the bar keep loading, but can't figure out why it 
> stops playing there.

Well in the case of YouTube (and an ever expanding list of sites with 
video) they utilize Flash. And the current version of Flash for Linux is 
woefully out of date.  Rumor has it this will be corrected in a month or so.


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