Sound and video freezing up Firefox

[Ray Parrish]

lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
>
> From: Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net>
> Subject: Re: Sound and video freezing up Firefox
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 8:51 PM
>
> Ray Parrish wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since this morning anytime I attempt to load sound like Pandora Radio or 
>> videos from hulu.com on Hardy Heron and the latest version of Firefox my 
>> browser freezes up. Is anyone else having this problem, or can someone 
>> suggest a fix for it?
>>
>> Later, Ray Parrish
>>    
>> Correction, Pandora and Hulu are freezing up Firefox, but archive.org 
>>     
> plays video just fine, so this seems to be a flash related problem, as 
> flash is used on the other two sites. I have already tried the Hulu.com 
> suggested method of releasing and reallocating storage area for flash by 
>   
>> using it's settings context menu entry.
>>     
>
> Ray, I had no problem playing  hula videos but couldn't find Pandora.  I am running Jaunty Jack-64bit though but had problems running all embedded videos and audios with Hardy and Intrepid until I ran update-alternatives and changed flash from swf to flashplugin(player)-nonfree.  If your about:plugins shows only a Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999 and not a Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22 Then it might be worth a try with update-alternatives.  I always install flashplugin-nonfree on my versions of Ubuntu and it seems that Ubuntu insists you choose which plugin to use via update-alternatives.  May not be your problem but has always worked for me.
> HTH,
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>   
Hi Leonard,

How do I change swf to flashplugin-nonfree? I have both of them 
installed, and I just tried disabling swf in Firefox, however I was not 
presented with flashplugin-nonfree in about:plugins.

I'm trying to read the update-alternatives man page, but I'm confused. 
Can you tell me the specific command to run with it to get the newer 
version of plugin-nonfree working? Right now I have version 9.0.r999 
instead of the ten version?

Later, Ray Parrish

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