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Quick fix for this problem: Remove Totem.
That is what I always do with a new system - for some strange reason Totem is often default video player but it's never capable of playing anything. So remove it, and some decent video player will run instead. If you don't have any other player then install one, mplayer variants for instance are always good IMHO.
Do you have the Flashplayer plugin installed? Click on the Iceweasel Tools menu and then select Add-ons. Click on the Plugins item on the left and make sure you see Shockwave Flash listed. If it's not there then you haven't installed the Flashplayer plugin and can't watch that video.
jdk
Work here with iceweasle and the flashplayer plugin.
Rather than doing it manually like frankbell has suggested, I'd add 'non-free' and 'contrib' to the /etc/apt/sources.list and follow the debian instructions-
With cascade9 on this.
Use Your disto's package manger, this way you will be kept upto date with security fixes..
Just want to add my tip for living with flash
Flash is a little nasty, you can end up with things like stupid banners making noise and/or consuming CPU
I avoid this by using NoScript Firefox addon
In NoScript options --> Embeddings
I tick Forbid Adobe (r) Flash (r) , and also Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too.
This way I can click to allow things like video, and just avoid all the other nonsense.
NoScript can take a while to configure, and is beyond the scope of this post
Have a look and if you are having difficulty search for NoScript here on LQ
If need be start a thread. I know others use NoScript and will be more than happy to help.
There are alternatives AddOns, which just target Flash, but I've not used them myself.
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Originally Posted by Firerat
With cascade9 on this.
Use Your disto's package manger, this way you will be kept upto date with security fixes..
I agree with using your distro's oackage manager but in the case of flash I dont't think it will keep it up to date. Instead you have to periodically run the updater for flashplugin-nonfree as I fond out the ither day when I realised I was a couple of minor versions of Flash behind.
Edit: This seems to explain it. http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linu...debian_squeeze
File: libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Version:
This plugin provides integration with Gnome Shell for live extension enabling and disabling. It can be used only by extensions.gnome.org
File: librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
Version:
This plug-in detects the presence of iTunes when opening iTunes Store URLs in a web page with Firefox.
MIME Type Description Suffixes
application/itunes-plugin
Shockwave Flash
File: libgnashplugin.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999.
Gnash 0.8.11dev, the GNU SWF Player. Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about Gnash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash.
Compatible Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999.
MIME Type Description Suffixes
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf
Also when i enter the command i got the following output
Quote:
root@debian:/home/jovin# update-alternatives --config flash-mozilla.so
There is only one alternative in link group flash-mozilla.so (providing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so): /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so
Nothing to configure.
You seem to have a very old version of flashplayer. (10.1). The latest version that will ever be made for Linux is 11.2. You should download the 11.2 version either via your package manager or from the Adobe site and install it on your system. This is quite simple. The driver is a single file called libflashplayer.so All you have to do is to copy that file into your ~/.mozilla/plugins/ folder. That's all there is to it.
jdk
I have version 10 of Flash, because version 11 doesn't work with 32-bit AMD processors. The video plays in Firefox (3.6) but not in Opera (12), which suggests a browser problem rather than a plug-in one. I notice that the coding is full of errors, so that may just upset some browsers more than others: it does happen.
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I find that when gnash plugin is enabled it takes priority over Flash and, therefore, virtually no Flash content works. I get around this by either removing gnash or disabling it in the plugins section of Firefox.
MIME Type Description Suffixes
application/itunes-plugin
Shockwave Flash
File: libgnashplugin.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999.
Gnash 0.8.11dev, the GNU SWF Player. Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about Gnash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash.
Compatible Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999.
MIME Type Description Suffixes
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf
You have gnash, and not Adobe Flash
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Originally Posted by jovin555
Also when i enter the command i got the following output
Quote:
root@debian:/home/jovin# update-alternatives --config flash-mozilla.so
There is only one alternative in link group flash-mozilla.so (providing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so): /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so
Nothing to configure.
How did you install Flash player
Sorry, flash plugin?
try this
Code:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
you might need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list
Code:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
Don't worry about "contrib" ( but you will get further software choices with it )
just ensure you have non-free
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