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nadir

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## youtube videos

Wed May 01, 2013 9:34 pm

If i open youtube and try to watch a video, i see only black (or, sometimes, white).
I removed all script and flash blockers, to no avail.
I then installed iceweasel from experimental, but the problem stays.
The PC is quite old, but i don't know if that might be the problem ( never experienced such).
[refracta: /home/user]# dpkg -l | grep iceweasel
ii iceweasel 20.0-1 i386 Web browser based on Firefox
[refracta: /home/user]# dpkg -l | grep flashplugin
ii flashplugin-nonfree 1:3.2 i386 Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin
[refracta: /home/user]#
aka: intel inside:
[refracta: /home/user]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.4 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 05)
01:07.0 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
01:07.1 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
01:07.2 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
01:07.3 USB controller: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
[refracta: /home/user]#
Earlier i installed intel-microcode, but i didn't reboot yet (besides that i got now clue what exactly intel-microcode does).
The first question is:
Is it worth to look into this at all?
If the PC was for me i wouldn't bother, i got two PC's which play youtube fine, and i barely do it anyway. But as i will give it away it would be nice to add it. Downloading the videos with download-helper and playing them with mplayer worked fine too (but, like said, the PC is not for me).
meandean

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## Re: youtube videos

Wed May 01, 2013 10:38 pm

type about:plugins in the address bar and see what info you get about flash
dzz

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## Re: youtube videos

Thu May 02, 2013 1:17 am

Why not use gtk-youtube-viewer? no flash required.
nadir

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## Re: youtube videos

Thu May 02, 2013 7:28 am

> dzz wrote:Why not use gtk-youtube-viewer? no flash required.

Because the PC is not for me:

> If the PC was for me i wouldn't bother, i got two PC's which play youtube fine, and i barely do it anyway. But as i will give it away it would be nice to add it. Downloading the videos with download-helper and playing them with mplayer worked fine too (but, like said, the PC is not for me).

> type about:plugins in the address bar and see what info you get about flash

I think it gives what that info usually give (but as i barely use it ...):
Shockwave Flash
File: libflashplayer.so
Version:
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
MIME Type Description Suffixes
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl
fsmithred

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## Re: youtube videos

Thu May 02, 2013 1:43 pm

Shouldn't there be a plugin for a video player?
browser-plugin-vlc
xine-plugin
gecko-mediaplayer (for mplayer)
nadir

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## Re: youtube videos

Thu May 02, 2013 4:36 pm

gecko-mediaplayer is installed. As i didn't install it i assume it comes with refracta per default
(else it is of the first things i install. But the truth is: i got no idea what it might be good for).
It is dual-boot, as the dude did not decide if he wants to use Windows or Linux. I botted XP, started firefox20 and it played a youtube video
(But the quality was lousy too, so perhaps there is no point in getting flashplayer to run for iceweasel. It's been ages i had any trouble with flashplayer. I remember seeing the black screen of nothing when using gnash, but not with flashplayer).
Ah. Well: i posted a few notes about the 11-beta version elsewhere. Else i have seen nothing, and it works like usual (good, that is).
anticapitalista

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## Re: youtube videos

Thu May 02, 2013 10:07 pm

Some PII and PIII boxes need an older version of flash. version 10 rather than 11.
nadir

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## Re: youtube videos

Fri May 03, 2013 7:46 am

> anticapitalista wrote:Some PII and PIII boxes need an older version of flash. version 10 rather than 11.

Yeah, perhaps something similar to that. I got no idea.
It is a Celeron 1.3 Gh (in case i didn't say that above).
For me it is a good PC, but people are the way they are (they want a PC for free and it shall run like a MacBookPro). God forbid people use a PC to learn something, instead of using it as a multimedia-box. That guy said he wants it to write text and browse the Web a bit (i don't know if he means youtube and such with browsing the web). I asked him a couple of times and explained in long detail that you can make a dead man walk, but not fly. I think he understood, he said it would be more than fine for him, but i am never sure.
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