Video player in Firefox not working

On this page: Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer | Video on TED.com

I found this in the space reserved for the video:

[Quote:]
It appears that you have JavaScript disabled or have an old version of the Adobe Flash Player. Download the latest Flash player to view this video.

If you are on a mobile device, you may be able to directly download the video to play.

If your browser allows only “trusted sites” to execute Javascript, you should add the “googleapis.com” domain to your whitelist to allow our Flash detection to work properly.
[Unquote]

I just finished re-installing everything “java” and “Adobe” from the repo, and nothing is being blocked.
Where is an “updated” version of Adobe Flash Player in the repository? If it’s there, I don’t see it.
What can I do?

openSUSE 12.1.12 64-bit (2012-04-13)
Firefox 14.0.1

Am 08.08.2012 10:36, schrieb Maximillium:
>
> On this page: ‘Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new
> understanding of cancer | Video on TED.com’ (http://tinyurl.com/c2lzc4s)
Video plays on my machine with openSUSE 12.1, Firefox 14.0.1 and
Flashplayer 11.2.202.236.


PC: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 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

Thanks, Martin; I clicked the link in the dialog to “download the file” and the player started to play!

This is not the only site with which I’ve had this problem, so will have to wait until I find another example.

I’m crashing now - it’s after 2:30 A.M. here. Will continue this later…

Thanks again

When you are back, can you check whatever addon’s you have installed if
maybe one of them blocks this video for you?
I have ghostery and addblock plus active, none of those block the video
for me so that it runs flawless in my flashplayer, but maybe you have
something different which blocks it and it is not in any way a
flashplayer problem on your system.


PC: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.5 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10

Am 08.08.2012 10:36, schrieb Maximillium:
>> I just finished re-installing everything “java” and “Adobe” from the
>> repo, and nothing is being blocked.
Confirm that you have the latest by


rpm -q flash-player

(should give you flash-player-11.2.202.236-24.1)
and compare that version with what you get when you play a working video
and right click into the flash window (it should tell you exactly the
same version).


PC: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.5 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10

Flash player is indeed the same as yours, above…

Not quite what you’re after perhaps, as I’m not using Firefox, but the link plays fine on my system both with Konqueror (webkit) and Opera, using Flash version 11.1.102.63 (not the latest one).

Plugins:
IcedTea-Web Plug-in (IcedTea-Web (suse-3.1-x86_64))
NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 1.4.4
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999 Gnash 0.8.11dev (disabled since uninstalling Gnash)
Silverlight Plug-In 3.0.40818.0
Skype Buttons for Kopete (not sure why this is in here)
VLC Web Plugin 2.0.3 Twoflower
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Moonshine Media Player)

Why do Java, Silverlight, Adobe Acrobat and other plugins no longer work? | Firefox Help lists the following:
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 is “Unknown plugin”
Silverlight Plug-In is “Outdated Version”
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 is “Up to date”
VLC Web Plugin 2.0.3 is “Up to date”
NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 1.4.4 is “Unknown plugin”
IcedTea-Web Plug-in is “Unknown plugin”
Skype Buttons for Kopete is “Unknown plugin”

These player problems only began when I “updated” Firefox from v14.0.0 to v14.0.1, but I don’t see others saying much about it in the Firefox forum, and don’t see versions in the opensuse repos that cure anything either.

Maybe try resetting or refreshing the plug-in list. I don’t know how Firefox does this but it sometimes happens that I need to refresh the plugins list manually in Konqueror to have them working properly, e.g. after installing/uninstalling something which falls under that category. Perhaps it is a problem that gnash is still present on your list?

Skype Buttons for Kopete (not sure why this is in here)

Comes with Kopete I believe

Am 08.08.2012 17:56, schrieb F Sauce:
>
> Not quite what you’re after perhaps, as I’m not using Firefox, but the
> link plays fine on my system both with Konqueror (webkit) and Opera,
> using Flash version 11.1.102.63 (not the latest one).
>
>
Good idea for Maximillium as well to test it with an alternative browser
I think.


PC: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.5 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10

Working fine here

Hi, “Sauce”:
I don’t think Firefox does this at all, at least from the usual user interfaces - maybe in “about:config”, but I’m not all that comfortable there. I have just uninstalled Gnash and Kopete using Yast2 and am about to reboot.
Interesting avatar, there … self portrait?
Rebooting now…

I found these:

Problems updating the Flash player in Firefox? Here’s help | Defensive Computing - CNET News
and
Why won’t Adobe Flash Player work on Firefox? | Firefox Support Forum | Firefox Help (last posting 6/15/2012)

Both for Winders, but illustrative of the problem.

I also found these:

Flash Player Help
and
Adobe fixes Flash Player for Firefox to stop crashes - Computerworld
(but don’t believe it. They only “fixed” it for Winders, and check the comments below the article if you have the time.)

Sigh…

Yes, me on the avatar, with a bit of added colour:)

I have stuck with the latest (update-repo) version of the 11.1.xxx series Flash. Most 11.2.xxx Flash versions I have tried have hung for a while when loading flash elements, though not necessarily crashed. I don’t know if reverting to an older flash player will solve your problem, but it might be worth a try. Some discussion on a related issue: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/473983-flash-player-bbciplayer-nvidia-crash.html

By the way, how did it go after you uninstalled Gnash?

Hi again:

I took out these two from Firefox after uninstalling them with Yast2:
Shockwave Flash 10.1 r999
Gnash 0.8.11dev Skype Buttons for Kopete

There did seem to be some kind of competition between Adobe and Gnash - Gnash was doing the work but is not much of a player; it reacts slowly to settings changes, takes 3 mouse clicks to get it into full screen mode, and doesn’t get the syncing of voice/lips quite right, which looks a little strange.

I would gladly revert to Firefox 14.0.0 and whatever it used for Adobe video plugins - but it just ain’t in the repository anymore. Seems like that’s an error too - we should be able to revert to an earlier version if we want, but where are they?

So now some videos play (youtube, etc.) and some don’t - my current example is one of the videos on TED that I referred to above. Others on TED seem to play O.K. Go figure.

I think we’re just screwed until Firefox and Adobe get their bleep together…

Thank-yous to Martin, Sauce, & caf for trying to help.

Hi
Switch to html5?
http://www.youtube.com/html5/


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Maximillium wrote:

> There did seem to be some kind of competition between Adobe and Gnash -

Yes
Never have both

[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;2479077]Hi
Switch to html5?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Looks interesting. How would I participate in the trial? Aren’t we supposed to get all our software from the repository?

Still a noob, here.