videos not playing correctly in firefox

**hito_kiri** · 25-Jun-2009, 20:01

I have been having a problem for a while where videos that use flash, i.e. youtube, will not play right. They sometimes don't come up, just show a blank part on the screen where the video should be. A lot of times they play as though they are in fast forward. Logging out and back in occasionally fixes it temporarily, as does restarting if that doesn't work, but it happens so much that is a real pain. Any ideas?

**caf4926** · 25-Jun-2009, 20:30

First establish if this is happening in other browsers. Konquerer if you use kde? Or Opera.

Some _64bit users have had problems recently, but not quite as you describe.

**hito_kiri** · 25-Jun-2009, 20:33

Yes I just tried it in konqueror and it does it with it too.

**caf4926** · 25-Jun-2009, 20:34

Open a terminal and do:

Code:

rpm -qi flash-player

**hito_kiri** · 26-Jun-2009, 01:01

I did that and it still doesn't work. I have also tried changing the application for flash from using shockwave flash back to flash player and visa versa to no avail. This is perhaps the weirdest glitch I have had for online videos.

**caf4926** · 26-Jun-2009, 01:08

I want to see the output from that command. lol.

Copy and paste it here

**hito_kiri** · 26-Jun-2009, 09:44

Oh duh... For some reason I thought that, but it looked like it updated it or something lol.

Name : flash-player Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 10.0.22.87 Vendor: openSUSE
Release : 0.1.1 Build Date: Wed 25 Feb 2009 12:17:18 PM EST
Install Date: Thu 25 Jun 2009 03:01:50 PM EDT Build Host: Super-Pinguine
Group : Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers Source RPM: flash-player-10.0.22.87-0.1.1.src.rpm
Size : 19568820 License: Any commercial
Signature : RSA/8, Wed 25 Feb 2009 12:17:34 PM EST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Packager : Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE
Summary : Adobe Flash PlugIn and standalone Player
Description :
This package contains Adobe's Flash Plugin for the supported Web
browsers in addition to a standalone flash player application.

Authors:
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Distribution: openSUSE 11.1