Broken Embedded Videos

[Boohickey11]

A few days ago embedded videos stopped working (ie YouTube Videos, etc). They will start to play and will download about 20secs worth and then the progress bars drops to nothing and the video stops dead. Any ideas? If theres no easy fix then is there something I can uninstall/reinstall that might fix it?

[Rog131]

Re: Broken Embedded Videos

You are using ?

Konqueror / Firefox
Kaffeine / MPlayer / VLC


If Firefox

FAQ: Firefox
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3091188.0

=> Problems with plugins

If you have installed plug-in and aboutlugins /2/ don't show it. Try to copy plugins from
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ to the ~/.mozilla/plugins/

More of this:
Topic: Embedded video firefox application/x-mplayer2
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090893.0

A few days ago embedded videos stopped working

Did you upgrade something ?

There has been problems with Kaffeine (xine):

Topic: [SOLVED] Video's don't play anymore
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3091645.0

Topic: recent problem with kaffeine
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3091604.0

[Boohickey11]

Re: Broken Embedded Videos

I haven't yet tested those possibilites but one thing that has come up is that when I made my partitions sizes I made my root partition too small. It's like 2 or 3 gigs. This has caused other problems that I'll deal with soon. Could this be related as well.

PS Will increasing the size of my /root partition require me to reinstall?

Thanks a LOT!!

[dibl]

Re: Broken Embedded Videos

I haven't yet tested those possibilites but one thing that has come up is that when I made my partitions sizes I made my root partition too small. It's like 2 or 3 gigs.

Whoa! You need 6GB, minimum.

PS Will increasing the size of my /root partition require me to reinstall?

Depending on what else is on your hard drive, you can boot a GParted Live CD and enlarge the partition, at the expense of some other partition. Get the GParted ISO image here -- get the ver. -10, not -11:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=173828

If that works, you'll get by without reinstalling Linux.

[Boohickey11]

Re: Broken Embedded Videos

Thanks.

Is there anything I should do before I run it? I don't want to screw it up again.

[dibl]

Re: Broken Embedded Videos

It's hard to give real specific advice without seeing and understanding your setup better.

First, it's always wise to have a current and complete backup of your important data, especially when contemplating disk partitioning.

Assuming all the space on your hard is allocated to partitions, then some other partition is going to have to give up 3GB in order for you to increase the Linux partition by that much. So that needs to be unused space -- empty space on an existing partition. If you're thinking of getting it out of a Windows OS partition, you'd better use "disk cleanup" and defrag it about 3 times first. Depending on filesystem type (NTFS, FAT32, ext3, etc.) GParted isn't terribly fast when it comes to moving entire partitions, which you'll have to do, so you probably need to think in terms of hours, not minutes, to do this.

That's about the best I can give you. Do the data backup, then you won't have to worry if your experiments with GParted go wrong.

[cantab]

Re: Broken Embedded Videos

I haven't yet tested those possibilites but one thing that has come up is that when I made my partitions sizes I made my root partition too small. It's like 2 or 3 gigs.

Whoa! You need 6GB, minimum.

Not necessarily. In particular, if /usr is on a separate partition, then you need a substantially smaller root partition, since apart from /home, /usr is usually the biggest directory.

Personally I don't think there's a HUGE amount of advantage to having /usr on its own partition. /home should almost always be (although if dual booting Linuces, a distinct data partition may be better, due to per-user config file incompatibilities), and it's also good to have /var separate so if something goes wrong and spams a log file or cache folder it doesn't fill up your root.

[Boohickey11]

Re: Broken Embedded Videos

Well, I used Gparted and increased my /root partion to about 8 gigs. The embedded videos are working again and I haven't had any errors yet.

Thanks for your help guys.