Hi,
I have OpenSuse 12.1 with KDE. Youtube videos does not play on Firefox. I have read several forum posts and done good amount of google search but they don’t seem to help.
I have uninstalled flash player and installed it again using Software Management, Firefox shows flash as being installed, however none of the videos plays.
I am new to Linux and don’t know much about terminal commands to use them. Pls help.
Thanks.
I installed Opera and Chrome, Opera says the plug-in crashed in place of displaying the video and Chrome says the plug-in could not be loaded.
not sure what flash player you are trying to install from the repos (gnash?) but you probably need the one from adobe:
Adobe - Install Adobe Flash Player
not a network issue btw, you would get better reception from posting under “Applications”
On 09/08/2012 05:16 PM, sudhi g81 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have OpenSuse 12.1 with KDE. Youtube videos does not play on Firefox.
> I have read several forum posts and done good amount of google search
> but they don’t seem to help.
>
> I have uninstalled flash player and installed it again using Software
> Management, Firefox shows flash as being installed, however none of the
> videos plays.
>
> I am new to Linux and don’t know much about terminal commands to use
> them. Pls help.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Can you show us what you did install?
This command: rpm -qa | grep flash
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Regards
swerdna
This is what i got -
flash-player-11.2.202.238-27.1.i586
flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.238-27.1.i586
fat_bottom_girls: thanks for the suggestion, posted here thinking it might be an internet issue. will post under applications if i don’t get any solutions.
That is correct
Make sure you do not have **gnash **installed
Why don’t you try to upgrade your flash player/plugin to the latest Adobe Flash 11.2?
How to install Flash Player on OpenSUSE 12.2 | Share the knowledges
I checked and gnash is not installed.
dhaniekonugroho: tried the link you gave, didn’t work either. i had the latest flash plug-in from Adobe, had downloaded from their site.
Thanks.
You say they do not play
What exactly does happen / Do you see?
linux-nnsi:~ # rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-11.2.202.238-27.1.x86_64
pullin-flash-player-12.1-9.1.x86_64
flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.238-27.1.x86_64
linux-nnsi:~ #
Is the below Adobe message about to become a problem ?
Probably
Flash will eventually die, but it’ll be slow. Websites are so tied in to it… People are still building sites around it, even though the nails are going in the coffin.
Having said that
I have no trouble with playing flash from anywhere so far…
But Flash is like a zombie. So it seems to be undead unfortunately 
While I agree with caf4926 about the dying of flash for the time until
that happens it is not unlikely that sites will sooner or later no
longer play well with 11.2. When this happens there is a workaround to
use google chrome as browser for them.
Currently I see flash 11.3 integrated in chrome on my wife’s machine
(she plays often flash games so I installed it there that she can test
it when something does not work with Firefox as expected).
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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.4 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
use google chrome as browser
Yep, have it installed
I’m on 12.2 and I can’t get flash to work on firefox or chrome. I go to this web page to test
Adobe - Test Adobe Shockwave Player
In both cases it says a plugin is needed. Here’s what I’ve got.
linux-jh9f:~> rpm -qa | grep flash
pullin-flash-player-12.1-6.5.1.i586
flash-player-11.2.202.258-1.14.1.i586
flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.258-1.14.1.i586
linux-jh9f:~>
I do not have anything with gnash installed.
I tried firefox with all plugins disabled and it still doesn’t work. I upgraded firefox to 17.0.1 and it still doesn’t work.
How can I get flash to work?
If you run this link, you may find that it still works OK: Adobe - Flash Player
When I run your command I get:
rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.258-1.14.1.x86_64
flash-player-11.2.202.258-1.14.1.x86_64
flash-player-gnome-11.2.202.258-1.14.1.x86_64
pullin-flash-player-12.1-6.5.1.x86_64
I always suggest you follow this guide (ALL OF IT): https://forums.opensuse.org/content/127-multimedia-restricted-formats-installation-guide-12-2.html
You can then test it with this: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/mmcheck-version-2-35-check-your-multimedia-16-steps-bash-script-file-36/
Some of the issues is also due to your video hardware and the driver you use for it to work in openSUSE. You could tell us more about your PC & Video hardware. In one case, a person using a nVIDIA 6200 could not get Flash to work properly.
Thank You,
Thanks for the reply. I tried the first link below and only got a still for an ad. (?)
I also followed the second link and it installed lots of stuff. For kde. Did it yesterday. Upgraded firefox to 17.0 today. Does order matter? I had to select 1) replace with … several times. Sorry, I didn’t note which ones.
My video card is on the motherboard. SiS630 GUI Accelerator + 3D
I was able to get youtube videos to work in previous opensuse releases. Even had it working in smplayer when firefox would not, but now even that doesn’t work.
But I can’t remember what I did in 12.1 and before. I remember doing lots of different things and finally got it to work. Now I’ve done lots of things and just can’t seem to push the right button. I’m running out of things to try.
And when you run the MMCHECK bash script, do you have the recommended items loaded? For instance, Totem is used to play many items online and its recommended it be installed.
Thank You,
I don’t know how things will pan out, but remember too that things will likely deteriorate with respect to flash-player. Because as you know, support has been dropped.
James has given the correct URL for testing flash and for me it works fine. And so far, I don’t have any trouble around the web either.
Google Chrome might help though as it has it’s own built in flash.