Need help viewing video from my own web page

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 21-07-12 17:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>> I have a web page that celebrates my dog.  I've been posting my
>> pictures and videos to it, learning about web pages and such as I go
>> along.
>> I've just gotten thumbnails sorted out, and I'm on to the videos.
>> They're fine when viewed through the File Manager, but not through a
>> browser from the page itself.  They either stay black, or show a few
>> frames and go black.    The same thing happens from my Windows 7
>> laptop, but I mostly see Flash on it so I don't know if it views other
>> plain video files properly.
>>
>> The videos are AVI and MP4.  Clicking "save link as" saves an exact
>> copy, so I presume I'm serving them right, but I cannot be sure.
>>
>> The system is Ubuntu 11.04, with Xubuntu added.  (I plan to install
>> xubuntu 12.04.1 when I get a Round Tuit) I run an xfce session.  The
>> browsers I use are Firefox and Chrome.
>>
>> I don't know if I'm serving them wrong, or have the browsers set up
>> wrong.  It would be nice to know if anyone sees them properly and can
>> guide me through setup, or if everyone sees what I do and I'm actually
>> serving them wrong.
>>
>> the page is http://kosmanor.com/Cully.
>>
> Kevin,
> Works without a problem in Firefox 13.01. I only looked at the first video
> but I assume the rest is equal.
> I can't help with the browser setup but I would suggest to look into
> Preferences -> applications.
> Joep
>
>

SOLVED

It turns out my /tmp was full.  With a clean /tmp the videos play fine.


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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD