internet browser videos gone in firefox?

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Not sure which forum this would go in, but it seems that youtube (and every other internet video source) isn’t playing in my openSuSE 11.0 x86_64 in FireFox 3.0.1 or Epiphany. They begin, give a flash of sound, then quit. In Konqueror3, I get normal sound but no video. I think this happened when FireFix upgraded itself - or maybe at the last kernel upgrade? (I use the openSuSE stock repos and packman) Is this a known problem or is my install gone bad? I’ve never been able to play videos through Kaffene - I’ve always had to use MPlayer… I don’t know enough about the various sub-systems to know what to look for.

Thanks,
Patti:shame:

PS: I just noticed that Konqueror 4 will work with youtube.

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In FF, check to see what is listed in the Tools-, Add-ons, -Plugins,

If as you say, you only have the main suse repo’s and Packman, you should be fine. You could check to see you have all the latest updates in Packaman - using Software Management - then filter by repo and select Packman, then from top left choose Package tab and select update all in this list if new ver avail.

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Hi Caf - there are a lot of things in tools - Add-ons -plug-ins and my updater seems to be having trouble. It always seems to start on an update, then just poof it’s gone. I tried rpm --rebuilddb but it’s still doing that. For a while it was just the tray updater, now the YaST/OnlineUpdate thing does it too.

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I never use the tray updater. I switch it off.

If you are venturing into the real world of Linux you should really manage updates via Software Management and work thru the repo’s manually.

So, are you saying you can’t update from the method I described?

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Well, it downloaded some stuff, then I didn’t see the “Writing the system configuration” window after, you know, with “setting up the linker cache, etc.” Also there was a problem with libxine - and I found a version installed (in YaST) that didn’t even report what repo it was from. So I think I got some packages installed that confuse the YaST algorithm for resolving dependencies. For instance, some of the options it offers do nothing at all.

I found the libxine problem when I ran:
Multimedia - openSUSE-Community

After removing the wierd xine install, I reran the ymp and it seemed to download everything without conflicts, but then it just quits - and although it says “installation was successful” - I never see the “Writing system configuration” window. Also, when I do YaST/OnlineUpdate, I get the same result - there are updates to install, but I never get the “Writing system configuration” window at the end, and when I rerun YaST/OnlineUpdate, the files I installed are still there, apparently waiting to install. So something’s wrong with my YaST?