BBC video not working in 64bit Jaunty(solved)

Conny Enstrom uncurbed at swipnet.se
Tue Apr 28 20:20:04 UTC 2009


Jeff skrev:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 18:10 +0200, Conny Enstrom wrote:
>> Jeff skrev:
>>> Wonder if anyone can help me find why the BBC News videos are not
>>> working in firefox or Epiphany?  I get the black box with the circular
>>> gizmo going round but the video wont work.   Youtube works as it should.
>>> Thanks Jeff
>>>
>>>
>> Follow the instruction at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
>> Note it's also for the x86 and the x64bit , so follow the 64bit in yor case.
>> Also choose the proper distribution of Ubuntu.
>> Just copy/paste the commands in the terminal.
>> This should solve your problem, I done it on both systems and most 
>> streaming video are working so far.
>>
>>
> Thanks for the help but i have found the problem now.  I uninstalled
> Adobe flashplugin and noticed that Youtube was still working? so i went
> to synaptic and found that i also had installed another
> flashplayer(swfdec) . Once i uninstalled that and reinstalled Adobe all
> is working fine.
> Cheers Jeff
> 
> 

I ran in to the same problem AFTER i wrote the above, somehow the swfdec 
was installed by default during upgrade :-/
I had everything working with 8.10 but seems like I must start all over 
again and fix every streaming i run in to......





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