Web videos not playing under Linux (Ubuntu 8.10)

muzzavitch · 03-05-2009, 12:27 AM

Hello again,
I'm trying to browse youtube and yahoo video, unfortunatly neither of my browsers will play the videos. Both Firefox and Epiphany have the same problem, I know it must be one of the handlers causing this. I also have trouble displaying Chip-In widgets and the Yahoo!7 site doesn't work properly.

I think all these problems are related, but I don't know where to start.

Any help would be great. I don't want to have to boot into Windoze again.

Thanks.
Muzzavitch.

muzzavitch · 03-05-2009, 01:48 AM

Ok, I got Youtube working by installing realplayer 11 Gold, but Yahoo!7 Video still comes up black, and the au.yahoo.com news menu doesn't work properly.

T74marcell · 03-05-2009, 02:34 AM

You probably do not have some of the required codecs. Some major distributions do not install non-free codecs to avoid legal problems.

Check out the Livna or RPMFusion repositories for such codecs and install them.

Arch Linux

muzzavitch · 03-06-2009, 01:35 PM

Fixed the problem, after installing Flash you have to remove "swfdec" from your system. Otherwise Firefox uses it sometimes instead of the "real" Linux Flash.

Have fun.
Muzzavitch.