Videos in Firefox

[Scott Blair]

On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 14:35 -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Scott Blair <scott.blair at gmail.com>
> wrote:
<SNIP>
> 
>         
>         Yes, I have tried safe mode in Firefox and still nothing.
>         Chromium now plays You Tube but not Facebook. I just
>         installed Opera, which I really do not like, and it works
>         fine. Leaving me to believe it is something in Firefox or
>         in Flash plugin. Wonder if I can get an older version of
>         Firefox or Flash plugin and try it. Was thinking it was
>         my video drivers. This all started when I upgraded to
>         version 14.10. Slowly the vidoes on Facebook stopped
>         working, then on you tube. Still would rather use
>         Firefox than Opera. Any more help would be great.
>         
> 
> 
> Many videos on YouTube do not require Flash; Chromium (assuming you
> haven't installed Pepper Flash) would display those videos using
> HTML5. I don't use FaceBook much but I think it's likely it doesn't
> fallback to HTML5 when possible like Google services do. 
> 
I saw something about HTML5 in Chromium, says it's good to go. Chromium
works in You tube. But in Facebook it says Flash Player upgrade
required. I got the latest version from Adobe installed.
> 
> When you see the white area on the screen (in FireFox) where the Flash
> container is, are you able to right-click it and get the Flash
> settings panels?

No, just a black blank screen.

>  You can TRY turning off (or on) hardware acceleration. (Assuming you
> can get to the settings.) There are some other settings there, but
> that seems to be the most likely -- I've never seen any of the other
> settings affect video playback.

I turned off hardware acceleration didn't work, went into safe mode
didn't work. 
> 
> You said you reset FireFox, but you might also try creating a totally
> new user account in Ubuntu and see if it's broken there. (I would
> think using the Guest account would work for that test as well.) Maybe
> there's some "cruft" in your regular account left from before the
> upgrade that a clean new user account wouldn't have. 
> 
Yeah I was thinking that too, I deleted .mozila from my home directory
and did a complete install. I'll create another account and see if that
works.

> 
> I don't use Opera much so I don't know why it might work when the
> others don't.

It is soooooo slooooow, but that might be the fact that there is no
cache to use yet.
> 
> 
> It does seem possible an updated video driver on your system could
> conflict with Flash. If you go to Software and Updates (via System
> Settings), you might check to see if you're using a proprietary video
> driver, and if so, what happens when you switch to the open source
> version. (You may not have an option.)


Well according to lspci  -mm | grep VGA I am using AMD RV 710 Radeon
4350/4550. which is correct, I have an ATI Radeon 4350.

According to sudo lshw -C display ; dpkg -l grep nvidia:
[sudo] password for scott: 
  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master
cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:45 memory:d0000000-dfffffff
memory:fe8f0000-fe8fffff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:fe8c0000-fe8dffff
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  grep           2.20-3       amd64        GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
dpkg-query: no packages found matching nvidia

It is showing the right driver. So I guess a video driver problem is
moot.
> 
> By the way, the version of Flash available in linux is an lower
> release number than the Pepper flash Google makes available in Chrome
> or the version of Adobe flash available to Windows and Mac OS. Adobe
> is phasing out support for linux, but does issue updates occasionally,
> but only to address some of the known vulnerabilities (they certainly
> wouldn't be trying to make it compatible with newer hardware). You can
> install Pepper flash using the pepperflashplugin-nonfree package
> (which installs Chrome and yanks Pepper flash out of it for use by
> Chromium) OR to use one of the hacks to enable a Windows version.
> (With all the headaches and risks THAT might involve.)
> 

Installed Pepperflashplugin and chromium still doesn't work in facebook,
still telling me to install flash, smh.

Not sure what to do next. Thinking maybe a full reinstall of Ubuntu, but
that is my VERY last resort.




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