youtube videos do not play

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youtube videos do not play

Post by dime » 2012/04/08 10:22:47

hi,
centos 5.8
gnome desktop
updated to date
firefox esr 10.0.3

since a few days i cannot play youtube videos presented on the youtube page any more....
in the video screen a black field comes up, nothing happens from that.
the preview stills are shown, but clicking on them loads that 'black screen'
i can download the file though (through downloadhelper).

is anybody having this same problem?
is it a centos issue?
or is it a 'dime' issue? ;-)

thanks.

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Re: youtube videos do not play

Post by AlanBartlett » 2012/04/08 16:15:40

My hint -- Check your flash player plugin.

Do you use [b]RPMforge / Repoforge[/b] for your updates?

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Re: youtube videos do not play

Post by dime » 2012/04/08 21:49:51

i get the package updater message on top right of my screen with something like 'x updates available'
i do the updates from that and do the updates that are offered.
so i cannot answer your question as i do not know where these actually do come from.
(alway thought they were from 'Centos Mother Base' ;-)

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Re: youtube videos do not play

Post by AlanBartlett » 2012/04/09 00:20:07

Whilst in [i]Firefox[/i], I enter [b]about:plugins[/b] in the Address Bar. In the list returned, I see --

[code]
Shockwave Flash

File: nswrapper_64_64.libflashplayer.so
Version: Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102

MIME Type Description Suffixes

application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl
[/code]
Querying the installed package, I see --

[code]
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-11.1.102.63-0.1.el6.rf.x86_64
[/code]
Yes, a package from [b]Repoforge[/b] (was formally known as [b]RPMforge[/b]). Finally, the required [i]symlink[/i] --

[code]
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ rpm -ql flash-plugin | grep so$
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ ll /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 Mar 16 22:49 /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
[/code]

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youtube videos do not play

Post by pschaff » 2012/04/09 01:15:08

There are also packages available directly from Adobe. In any case, if you don't know where your updates are coming from, [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=28723&forum=54]provide more information about your system[/url] by running "./getinfo.sh package" and showing us the output file.

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Re: youtube videos do not play

Post by dime » 2012/04/09 08:36:14

that does not work on my system:

[quote]
[root@xyz]# ./getinfo.sh package
bash: ./getinfo.sh: No such file or directory
[root@xyz]#
[/quote]

and the other suggested query gives:

[quote]
[root@xyz]# rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-11.2.202.228-release
[root@xyz]#
[/quote]

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Re: youtube videos do not play

Post by pschaff » 2012/04/09 15:12:45

[quote]
dime wrote:
bash: ./getinfo.sh: No such file or directory [/quote]
You failed to [b][i]read[/i][/b] the [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=28723&forum=54]link[/url].

[quote]
and the other suggested query gives:
[root@xyz]# rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-11.2.202.228-release[/quote]
You are using the Adobe package. Check that the symbolic link exists, as Alan showed in post #4. I'm not sure if the Adobe package creates it or not.

If still having trouble it might be worth trying the [url=http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge]RPMforge[/url] package.

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Re: youtube videos do not play

Post by dime » 2012/04/15 11:10:37

update to my problem (that still persists):

XXXXXXXXXX

following alan's suggestions:

[aaa@bbb ~]$ su
Password:
[root@bbb]# rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-11.2.202.233-release
[root@bbb]#


[root@bbb]# rpm -ql flash-plugin | grep so$
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so
[root@bbb]#


[root@bbb]# ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 14 00:00 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
[root@bbb]#

(NOTE: i do have 'lib' instead of 'lib64')

XXXXXXXXXX

following phil's suggestions:

(and after reading the link)

"provide more information about your system by running "./getinfo.sh package" and showing us the output file."

the output file is linked to:
http://members.multimania.nl/driepoot99/centosforum/copy_basedata.I30428.txt

XXXXXXXXXX

after the most recent update package manager offered (2 days ago, flash was one of the packages), i still cannot see the youtube videos (as i mentioned in the first post), nor videos in other websites.

hope the info above brings some sort of solution.

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Re: youtube videos do not play

Post by pschaff » 2012/04/15 12:35:16

I can't see anything wrong there. You have i386/32-bit so /usr/lib/ is correct. Just tried the latest Adobe flash-player package on 5.8 x86_64 and it works correctly, so I suspect i386 should as well. Something else must be wrong. I do note that you have the yum-priorities plugin installed, but have not configured any priorities, so all repos will default to 99 - the lowest. This means, for instance, that the flash-plugin version you get could come from either Adobe or RPMforge depending on which looks to yum like the later version number.

Since you say it stopped working a few days ago, I'd suggest reviewing /var/log/yum.log and see what was installed just before the time it stopped working. If you have done any other changes, particularly things such as [url=http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls]Source Installs[/url], they may also be suspect.

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Re: youtube videos do not play

Post by dime » 2012/04/16 07:55:01

thank you for that answer.


when i choose 'Tools' and 'Add-Ons', i get this screen:
http://members.multimania.nl/driepoot99/centosforum/plugins1_b.jpg

when i choose the link on top of the page, i get this:
http://members.multimania.nl/driepoot99/centosforum/plugins2_b.jpg

when you look at the red text about 'Java', it seems someone/somewhat has disabled my Java....
could this be related to my problem?

when 'yes',
how do i re-activate Java?

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