Firefox/Multimedia issues

[cam77]

Hi there,

Upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 no worries however Firefox has become virtually unusable mainly with sites that use high flash content (Youtube being the main one). Clicking on a Youtube video does one of 2 things, either asks me to install flash (which if I go into Kpackagekit tells me it's already installed) or completely kills the browser session altogether having to start again. Only happens on multimedia/flash websites, and after getting booted out ask me to submit an error report to mozilla so they can fix it. The funny thing however is I can view youtube and any other site I like in Opera, though the only issue there is even if I only have 2 tabs open in opera and no other programs open, the cpu is at 100% with a few times having to reboot the system as it's frozen (no mouse movement, ctrl+esc won't respond)

Also cannot view any videos/movies on the hard drive, can hear them but no vision.

Cameron

[tatewaki]

Re: Firefox/Multimedia issues

Hey

Try installing this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161939/

It should help you fix the problem.

[ubuntuku]

Re: Firefox/Multimedia issues

Try this first:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras

[cam77]

Re: Firefox/Multimedia issues

Cheers for the fix, Firefox is running how it should now

However still can't see any video using VLC etc??

[sithlord48]

Re: Firefox/Multimedia issues

what kind of video are you trying to play in vlc?

[cam77]

Re: Firefox/Multimedia issues

just avi and mpeg which vlc usually has no hassles playing.

[tatewaki]

Re: Firefox/Multimedia issues

Use this command:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

and then do this:

sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs

The first command will add the mediabuntu repo, that contains all the non-free codecs and app. etc.

The next command will install all the non-free codecs.

You can read a bit more about it her: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

[cam77]

Re: Firefox/Multimedia issues

tatewaki,

ran those 2 commands and still no joy. Never had this issue before with a distro upgrade as VLC always worked with just about anything.

I also have the initial Firefox problem back again ever since doing the system update, have tried running the previous fixes again but firefox is still booting me out or saying I need to download flash :$