flash

[Jason Hayes]

Some of it is familiar. I am using the x86_64 version of Kubuntu and have had 
problems with the 32-bit version of flash (I downloaded it without thinking 
about the 32- vs 64 bit thing and it actually wouldn't install).

Sometimes I get the gray box. Sometimes I get other things. Sometimes it 
works. Sometimes ... no joy.

Still fighting with it, so I think I'll go back and remove all of them and 
start over again - one at a time.
-- 
Jason Hayes

On Friday 17 July 2009 09:14:03 am Joe wrote:
> This probably isn't your problem, but the flash issues I had (in Ubuntu
> 8.10) were all related to me running the x86_64 version of Ubuntu (and
> consequently Firefox) and the 32-bit version of flash. Once Adobe
> released the 64-bit flash (in beta), it's been running like a dream.
>
> The symptoms I had were different though. Basically, I would get an
> inactive gray box instead of the flash content. I would usually have to
> restart Firefox for flash to come back to life. Like I said, it doesn't
> sound like that's your problem, but I thought I'd throw that out there...
>
> -Joe
>
> Ryan Rix wrote:
> > Jason Hayes wrote:
> >> No problems with the official version. I've installed the restricted
> >> stuff and the official flash, as well as the swfdec, but still have many
> >> pages where the flash components just don't work.
> >>
> >> All I get is blank screen, or a flash component that is blinking through
> >> all the possible screens at high speed. Not sure what the issue is.
> >
> > If you have both, and the swfdec-mozilla package, swfdec may be
> > overriding flash-plugin-nonfree. Try going to your addons->plugins and
> > disabling swfdec if it was in there.
> >
> > I was never able to figure out how to get swfdec working with
> > youtube/video sight in general. Probably just codecs, but IDk what batch
> > to install so gave up and used mplayer script to watch youtube videos.
> >
> > Ryan