No video in iceweasel or konqueror (lenny standard install)

[A. F. Cano]

Am I the only one having trouble with youtube and any other video site?

I presume this is a flash issue.  This is a new Lenny install, not un
upgrade of Etch.  I have done no customization to the browsers.
Whereas I had no problem in Etch with iceape, I can't see any video
with either konqueror or iceweasel.  Iceweasel reports that flash r9 r100
is installed, and going to the adobe site it is recognized as such, but
attempting to view any youtube video yields only a large circle with a
triangle inside it.  Clicking on it results in a black screen.  In
konqueror, there is no circle and triangle, but nothing happens until
I click on where the video should be, then konqueror downloads it (the
progress bar says so) but it is never displayed, no matter how many times
I click the > (start) button.  I have tried this with a direct connection
to the internet and (at first) via privoxy, which I've been using in Etch
with no problem.  These are settings in the browsers.

Has anyone had this problem?  Any solution?

There's something else that bugs me.  Konqueror pops up a window once
in a while saying that it couldn't get the proxy script or something
like that.  What exactly is it doing and why?

Thanks.

A.


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[JoeHill-2]

A. F. Cano wrote:

> Am I the only one having trouble with youtube and any other video site?
>
> I presume this is a flash issue.  This is a new Lenny install, not un
> upgrade of Etch.  I have done no customization to the browsers.
> Whereas I had no problem in Etch with iceape, I can't see any video
> with either konqueror or iceweasel.  Iceweasel reports that flash r9 r100
> is installed, and going to the adobe site it is recognized as such, but
> attempting to view any youtube video yields only a large circle with a
> triangle inside it.  Clicking on it results in a black screen.  In
> konqueror, there is no circle and triangle, but nothing happens until
> I click on where the video should be, then konqueror downloads it (the
> progress bar says so) but it is never displayed, no matter how many times
> I click the > (start) button.  I have tried this with a direct connection
> to the internet and (at first) via privoxy, which I've been using in Etch
> with no problem.  These are settings in the browsers.

Do you have the packaged version of Flash installed? What does this show?:

dpkg -l |grep -i flash |awk '{print $2}'

I would try removing any packaged version of flash (flashplugin-nonfree), and
install the per-user version from Adobe (ie. install as a regular user), and
see if that works.

Just download the tar.gz, extract, cd in and run the installer. Always works
for me.

> Has anyone had this problem?  Any solution?
>
> There's something else that bugs me.  Konqueror pops up a window once
> in a while saying that it couldn't get the proxy script or something
> like that.  What exactly is it doing and why?

Not sure about that one.

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[A. F. Cano]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:57:24AM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> Originally I wrote:
> > Am I the only one having trouble with youtube and any other video site?
> >
> > I presume this is a flash issue.  This is a new Lenny install, not un
> > ...
> Do you have the packaged version of Flash installed? What does this show?:
>
> dpkg -l |grep -i flash |awk '{print $2}'

flashplayer-mozilla
kwordquiz
libswfdec-0.6-90
swfdec-mozilla

I believe I installed the last one in an effort to solve the problem, it
wasn't installed automatically by the Lenny installation.  The lib is
probably a dependency.

> I would try removing any packaged version of flash (flashplugin-nonfree), and

There is no flashplugin-nonfree.  The only thing similar that aptitude
reports is flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound, that I have not installed so I
don't add yet another variable to the problem.  Keep in mind that iceweasel
reports flash 9 r100, so I does not appear that something is missing. My
sources.list has this:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

> install the per-user version from Adobe (ie. install as a regular user), and
> see if that works.

I would like to keep the install as standard as possible, but if there's no
choice I'll do that.  Still I would like to understand why it doesn't work.
If it's something specific to my installation, it would be helpful to know,
if it's a problem with the installation (ie: everyone else has the same
problem), it would be useful to know too so I can do something (file a bug
report?).

> ...

Thanks for replying.

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[Kelly Clowers]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:50, A. F. Cano <afc@...> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:57:24AM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
>> Originally I wrote:
>> > Am I the only one having trouble with youtube and any other video site?
>> >
>> > I presume this is a flash issue.  This is a new Lenny install, not un
>> > ...
>> Do you have the packaged version of Flash installed? What does this show?:
>>
>> dpkg -l |grep -i flash |awk '{print $2}'
>
> flashplayer-mozilla
> kwordquiz
> libswfdec-0.6-90
> swfdec-mozilla
>
> I believe I installed the last one in an effort to solve the problem, it
> wasn't installed automatically by the Lenny installation.  The lib is
> probably a dependency.
>
>> I would try removing any packaged version of flash (flashplugin-nonfree), and
>
> There is no flashplugin-nonfree.  The only thing similar that aptitude
> reports is flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound, that I have not installed so I
> don't add yet another variable to the problem.  Keep in mind that iceweasel
> reports flash 9 r100, so I does not appear that something is missing. My
> sources.list has this:

It looks like flashplugin-nonfree (which is from the main debian archive,
flashplayer-mozilla is from debian-multimedia) is only in sid.

I would remove both swfdec packages, and then purge and reinstall
flashplayer-mozilla, and check that the correct symlinks are created
in e.g. [iceape dir]/plugins


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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[A. F. Cano]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:52:34AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> ...
> It looks like flashplugin-nonfree (which is from the main debian archive,
> flashplayer-mozilla is from debian-multimedia) is only in sid.
>
> I would remove both swfdec packages, and then purge and reinstall

Ok, did that.

> flashplayer-mozilla, and check that the correct symlinks are created

It seems that reinstalling flashplayer-mozilla did the trick.  Thanks!

A.


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