Flash videos won't play on 12.04

[bishb25]

Hi all,

Last night I installed Kubuntu 12.04 32bit on a spare computer. Everything seems to work ok except for flash video in firefox. I had Adobe Flash Player installed from the package manager and all i would get is a blank window where the video should have been. I uninstalled flash player and manually re-installed it from a download off of the adobe site. It didn't work either. I tried rekonq to see if it worked but it just crashes when i try to load the youtube site.
Any ideas?

specs:
AMD Athalon 2400+ 2.0Ghz
2 GB ram
Zotac GeForce 6200 AGP 512Mb (tried both the recommended driver and the "post release update" driver from the "additional drivers" utility.)

I know it's slow by today's standards but it should play lower resolution flash videos well enough. FWIW: I tested this hardware with another distro's live CD I happened to have lying around and HQ flash video played quite well.

Thanks.

[Snowhog]

Do you have the package ubuntu-restricted-extras installed?

[bishb25]

yes i just installed it and flash still does'nt seem to work.

[Guest]

Might be this?

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...icon-Bug-light

I had the same problem after installing kubuntu today and installing restricted extras - flash plugin not working, yellow light-bulb in system tray, etc.

[bailout]

Try uninstalling it and then install it in konsole using 'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer'. Graphical package managers often seem to have problems handling installs of packages that are just fronts to further downloads or need user interaction. MS core fonts used to cause similar problems as iirc you had to agree to a uela and the package manager of the time would just sit there as it couldn't display the message.

You may then have the problem with the software upgrade message as in the above linked thread.

[bishb25]

Thanks for the help guys. That "Bug Light" thread looks like the fix I needed. Too bad I gave up too soon. I installed the other distro I mentioned above and it works great! Sorry to jump ship like that, but it's only a spare PC and won't see much use. I didn't see the value spending lots of time bug fixing when I had something I knew worked.

Thanks again you're all great!

P.S. I'm still using Kubuntu 11.10 64bit on my primary PC. I love it so much and it works so well I think I'll hang on to it for a while. At least untill the 12.04 bug fixes make it into the next live CD.