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firefox-3.0 package

low quality, erroneous video and audio streaming, flash-related problems

Asked by EhrinJ on 2008-09-13

I am having a problem with my flash player, it seems. As with many other complaints on this question forum, I am experiencing incredibly bad quality from youtube, culminating in a complete crash of firefox.

I have attempted synaptic re-install, and it has not fixed the problem. Manual re-install from the .tar.gz archive that adobe provides on their website (running the program in terminal) gives me the following message

"----------- Install Action Summary -----------

Adobe Flash Player 9 will be installed in the following directory:

Mozilla installation directory = /home/ehrin/.mozilla

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y

NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.

Installation complete.

Perform another installation? (y/n): _"

Searching for the 'xpti.dat' file nets me no results.

Originally, I attempted the firefox plugin installation, and that didn't work. Apart from youtube, the streaming errors are also affecting 'the escapist' videos and megavideo.com

Any help would be appreciated.

Question information

Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu firefox-3.0 Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: Andre Mangan

Solved:: 2008-09-14

Last query:: 2008-09-14

Last reply:: 2008-09-14

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Andre Mangan (kyphi) said on 2008-09-13:

I use Flash Player 10 in Firefox. Perhaps that version will fix your problem. Look for Plugins in Firefox.

Also check out Medibuntu for codecs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu/

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EhrinJ (hypa0069) said on 2008-09-13:

That doesnt seem to have helped.

the about:plugins entry lists two different flash players

Shockwave Flash

File name: libswfdecmozilla.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r100

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie spl Yes

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0.0 d569

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

I have tried other solutions presented on this board, including uninstalling and re-installing from the synaptic package manager, and attempting to find flash libraries and codecs, but the problem persists

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