Upgrades and Flash

[Bart Silverstrim]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Tue, 2/3/09, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
>> Subject: Re: Upgrades and Flash
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 7:27 PM
>> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>>>
>>>> Assuming your using intrepid up-to date, are you
>> using
>>>> 10.0.15.3ubuntu1~intrepid version of the plugin? I
>> also switched to
>>>> sun jav6 but don't know if that had any
>> effect. With the 10 version
>>>> on my 64 bit machine, I haven't found an
>> embedded video that I can't
>>>> play. I did have that problem you describe before
>> going to the above
>>>> changes.  If you like, I'll be glad to test
>> the video for its url.
>>> flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.15.3ubuntu1~intrepid1 is
>> installed. I also have 
>>> sun-java6-jre version 6-10-0ubuntu2 (jre and jdk and
>> bin).
>>> The videos were multiple links on youtube, all videos
>> had the same results.
>>
>> Second bit of info...can someone help confirm this?
>>
>> I went to collegehumor (www.collegehumor.com/video:1899257)
>> and the 
>> video there opened up and played.
>>
>> Do the videos on collegehumor play in a similar manner to
>> youtube? I 
>> thought they were both embedded flash-based systems...if
>> so, this must 
>> be something with YouTube?
>>
> Bart, I don't think YouTube is at fault.
> I played the above link fine. Right clicking the video gives you a flash setup.
> Also went to YouTube and played several
> embedded video in different sections and
> all played.
> Have you looked at about:plugins to see if
> flash is listed?

Hmm...odd that collegehumor played, but youtube won't.

About:plugins gives...
x-shockwave-flash is libflashplayer.so, Shockwave Flash 10.0 r15
video/flv is libtotem-basic-plugin.so, Totem 2.24.3 plugin
Java is libjavaplugin_oji.so, Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_10
Futuresplash is also handled by the libflashplayer.so plugin.