I’m having trouble streaming video on the internet. Was using chromium and that was working out until I installed an update. I’m new to linux and installed the essential multimedia packages when I first installed Opensuse. This worked for a while until the update. Was wondering if anyone can help me with the chromium browser or streaming video in firefox.
Thanks.
This does not tell us very much. How did you decide which were essential (and which not), how did you install them and from where.
The normal way to enable Multimedia in opeSUSE is documented in the sticky thread in the Multimedia forum: Multimedia in One Click - Multimedia - openSUSE Forums
So did you do this (or equivalent)? Do you have the Packman repo active? Did you switch to it?
if it is internet streaming in chromium then I assume we are talking flash or html5 video
If you have the packman repo added then remove chromium-ffmpegsumo and replace it with chromium-ffmpeg otherwise you wont be able to view h264 encoded content
Right.
And for Flash you would need to install the package chromium-pepper-flash, also available on Packman.
Chromium does not use the system’s flash-player any more, they removed support for Netscape plugins in version 35.
The normal way to enable Multimedia in opeSUSE is documented in the sticky thread in the Multimedia forum: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthre…a-in-One-Click
So did you do this (or equivalent)? Do you have the Packman repo active? Did you switch to it?
Yes this is where I installed the multimedia packages, the all-in-one-click multimedia.
I have the chromium-ffmpeg and chromium-pepper-flash installed.
everything was fine until I installed a recommended update.
was wondering if there was a way to set it back to how it was before then
or if there is a way to watch videos on firefox.
If Adobe Flash 11.2 (from the non-oss) repo is installed (and it should be) then you will be able to stream Flash content in Firefox.
I have flash 11.2 installed but can’t view flash content. This has been the case the whole time for firefox.
It should work. It does here.
But of course if it is a HTML5 stream, installing flash-player won’t help.
In that case you need the appropriate gstreamer-0_10 plugins installed.
For YouTube, you can enable/disable the use of HTML5 on this page: http://www.youtube.com/html5
Choosing between Flash and HTML5 might or might not be possible on other sites.
So maybe you should tell which site it is that you have problems with in particular.
If it’s indeed about flash content, those questions come to my mind:
Maybe you installed some addon that blocks flash content?
Have you tried on a fresh user account?
Where did you install Firefox from? Where from the flash-player?
Is the flash plugin shown in Firefox’s [noparse]“about:plugins”[/noparse]?
Just enter that into the address bar, and “Shockwave Flash” should be listed.
What does Adobe’s site say about your flash version, i.e. is it recognized or not?
http://www.adobe.com/de/software/flash/about/
Also, recent flash-player versions won’t work on older 32bit CPUs. But as you said it worked until some recent update, I suppose that is not your problem.
You never said which update caused it to break though… 
Also, recent flash-player versions won’t work on older 32bit CPUs. But as you said it worked until some recent update, I suppose that is not your problem.
This maybe the problem with the firefox. I’m using an older computer.
The chromium browser though uses pepper and that was working.
When I did the update there were a lot of updates about 50 or more including chromium-pepper-flash, chromium-ffmpeg, gstreamer-0_10 plugins and others that might be used to view the videos. Is there a way I can look at some of these updates and figure out what went wrong?
With chromium all graphics and videos look weird.
These updates came from the little bug in the lower right.
Hm, I thought pepperflash had the same problem, but I’m not sure.
Please post the output of “cat /proc/cpuinfo” to find out whether that’s the problem.
When I did the update there were a lot of updates about 50 or more including chromium-pepper-flash, chromium-ffmpeg, gstreamer-0_10 plugins and others that might be used to view the videos. Is there a way I can look at some of these updates and figure out what went wrong?
In zypper’s log.
But I don’t see how something could have gone wrong.
Check that chromium-pepper-flash matches your chromium version.
For HTML5 you should make sure that all multimedia packages come from Packman, by making a “full repository vendor change update” to it, as already mentioned:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_change_update#Full_repository_Vendor_change
With chromium all graphics and videos look weird.
Have you tried disabling the hardware acceleration?
[QUOTE]These updates came from the little bug in the lower right.
It should not matter how you installed them.
Please post the output of “cat /proc/cpuinfo” to find out whether that’s the problem.
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.40GHz
stepping : 6
microcode : 0x18
cpu MHz : 1396.485
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe bts
bogomips : 2792.97
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:
Check that chromium-pepper-flash matches your chromium version.
How would I do this? I looked in Yast2: chromium-36.0.1985.125-41.1, chromium-pepper-flash-14.0.0.145-2.1
Everything is updated so it should match.
[QUOTE=harefootrabbit;2662495flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe bts[/QUOTE]
Your CPU does support SSE2, so the flash player should actually work.
How would I do this? I looked in Yast2: chromium-36.0.1985.125-41.1, chromium-pepper-flash-14.0.0.145-2.1
Everything is updated so it should match.
Sorry, I thought the pepper-flash package would have the same version as chromium.
But yes, that should match.
And the pepper-flash plugin does actually work as you said later.
“Only” the graphics/videos look weird, right?
So did you try to disable hardware acceleration? That’s often the cause of such problems.
Yes I tried disabling hardware acceleration and nothing changed. I’ve been trying to look up different problems other people are having but not really finding anything. Like I said this happened after an update, but I don’t really understand how this could have happened.
I’m trying to attach a picture of what the problem looks like. Maybe that would help show what the problem looks like. But can’t figure out how to add an image from my computer.
upload your picture here and then copy the link
Thanks for the link. Here is picture of what chromium looks like if it helps.
Just to be sure:
Where/how did you disable hardware acceleration?
Try to right-click on a video, select “Settings”, and disable it there. (although I’m not sure whether this option still exists in Google’s version)
Disabling it in the browser’s settings might not have effect on the flash-player…
You could also try to change the “enable_flash_uv_swap” option in /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg (set it to ‘1’ if it’s ‘0’, and ‘0’ if it’s ‘1’).
But again, I have no idea whether this has effect with Google’s flash-player version.
The picture is missing. You probably posted the link to the susepaste page inside IMG tags instead of a link to the actuall picture.
It should be this:
http://paste.opensuse.org/images/72554961.png
But well, this page doesn’t even use flash.
Try to disable hardware acceleration in Chromium’s settings then.
Oh, and which graphics card/driver are you actually using?
There might be a better work-around.
For intel f.e., this might help:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Switch_xf86-video-intel_to_UXA
There’s an update to the flash component for chromium just in moments ago (for those who need it).
Try to right-click on a video, select “Settings”, and disable it there. (although I’m not sure whether this option still exists in Google’s version)
Yeah I disabled acceleration this way.
Oh, and which graphics card/driver are you actually using?
Wouldn’t the driver affect more than just one browser? But I looked up the driver and installed it when I first installed opensuse, so it should be correct.
Didn’t you already tell us that you also have trouble in Firefox?
And as wolfi323 pointed out in his post above . . . there is no flash content in your example page - so it would seem your troubles have nothing to do with flash. Logically the next step is the video driver so posting the details here will help in troubleshooting.
Well, I ended up just re-installing opensuse and everything is working now. My guess is that when I installed the first time I didn’t read about the multimedia setup and tried to install packages that didn’t work well together. I appreciate all the help. Thanks.