Flash/video and youtube playing problems

luther7hrol · 2013-12-20 17:52:46

Hello, I have problems with playing flash content in Mozilla Firefox. I have flashplugin installed. It works only in Chromium. Also I can't manage to
watch youtube videos in neither Minitube nor gmediafinder. Minitube completely freezes after I click to play an item, and gmediafinder crashes. I
had the same problem with Minitube on my previous distro, which was Mint 15. I tried today with gmediafinder and same problem. What is causing
this and how to fix the issue? Thanks.

Last edited by luther7hrol (2013-12-20 17:53:24)

karol · 2013-12-20 17:59:42

What exactly happens? If you start firefox from the terminal, are there any relevant errors printed out?
What graphics card and drivers are you using, what DE / WM, are you using hardware acceleration for flash?

luther7hrol · 2013-12-20 19:59:58

GPU is Intel 4500M, and I have mesa installed on my 64 bit arch, and glxinfo says dri is enabled, so I
suppose it's being used all the time. Drivers are xf86-video-intel and I also installed lib32-intel-dri (if I remember the name correctly) for 32bit apps support.

There are no relevant errors on console after firefox start, but when It starts loading with blank screen, after few seconds gives me an "Error #2035" and stops loading. In chromium this works. I have read that Adobe discontinued supporting flashplayer for Linux, and that is only through Chrome possible to have the most recent flash upgrades. I have also tried gnash, but unfortunately it's too buggy to be useful. Minitube just freezes: it completely locks so I must xkill it at
the point I want to play something. I managed to have gmediafinder play every youtube video, but it behaves like if it had 2 or three same files loaded: sound is doubled, and when I pause playing item, I hear the other copy of it playing sound in background, which can I neither see, nor stop. Weird...

This is the output of Minitube console log after freezing:

** (minitube:5063): WARNING **: gstvideo: failed to get caps of pad xvimagesink0:sink
[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
minitube: xcb_io.c:274: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

Last edited by luther7hrol (2013-12-20 20:08:30)

jwm-art · 2013-12-20 23:51:24

I've got problems with this too. Any video, not only youtube, also vimeo, mpora, etc, does not play, giving the message "The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed. Reload the page to try again." Which of course fails. Several days ago reloading worked half the time but not now, the plugin always crashes.

This is on a newly installed this week (non-testing) Arch Linux x86_64, Firefox 26.0-2, flashplugin 11.2.202.332-1, Xfce, XDM. Nvidea [GeForce 9600 GT] using xf86-video-nouvea 1.0.10-1 driver.

Firefox does not give any messages when run from terminal (other than `(process:2101): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed` as soon as it starts).

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luther7hrol · 2013-12-21 14:32:14

Same as mine: Arch x86_64, flashplugin 11.2.202.332-1, mozilla-firefox-26.0 and sometimes getting the same g_slice error...

jwm-art · 2013-12-22 01:52:43

I've just installed the proprietary Nvidia driver and the flash/video problems have gone. Must have been a different issue to yours as you don't have an Nvidia card.

EDIT: No spoke too soon. The video started playing then I tried to skip some and it froze, jacking the CPU usage up to 100%.

Last edited by jwm-art (2013-12-22 01:59:14)

luther7hrol · 2013-12-22 15:09:37

I've just found a perfect alternative! :-) To play flash from browser, I use chromium, and to play youtube videos, instead of minitube/gmediafinder, I found much better smplayer/smtube combination which works perfectly and is very configurable so all the preferences regarding video processing are changeable. There is also youtube-search option integrated in smplayer but installing smtube is needed aside smplayer.

Last edited by luther7hrol (2013-12-22 15:10:35)

Robsteady · 2013-12-24 00:06:15

I seem to be having this same problem too... Using an AMD E-350 APU with the proprietary drivers minitube crashes when video tries to begin playback and YouTube begins playing a video and after about 14 seconds Flash crashes out. I got this in the terminal when I ran minitube:

[xcb] Unknown sequence number while processing queue
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
minitube: xcb_io.c:274: poll_for_event: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

I know I was able to playback youtube videos on this version of the flash player on Wheezy 7.2 but there's something hanging it up on Arch.

lelele · 2013-12-24 17:14:09

Put me on the list, at least on youtube. Using xf86-video-ati:Radeon HD 6450 1G. But I did mess with my xorg settings according to the wiki.

#/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf
Section "Device"
	Identifier "Radeon"
	Driver "radeon"
	Option	"SWcursor"              "off" #software cursor might be necessary on some rare occasions, hence set off by default
	Option	"EnablePageFlip"        "on"  #supported on all R/RV/RS4xx and older hardware, and set on by default
	Option	"AccelMethod"           "EXA" #valid options are XAA, EXA and Glamor. EXA is the default
	Option	"RenderAccel"           "on"  #enabled by default on all radeon hardware
	Option	"ColorTiling"           "on"  #enabled by default on RV300 and later radeon cards
	Option	"EXAVSync"              "off" #default is off, otherwise on. Only works if EXA activated
	Option	"EXAPixmaps"            "on"  #when on icreases 2D performance, but may also cause artifacts on some old cards. Only works if EXA activated
	Option	"AccelDFS"              "on"  #default is off, read the radeon manpage for more information
EndSection

gaweph · 2014-02-17 19:08:11

If anyone is getting the error:

`!xcb_xlib_threads_sequence_lost'

I managed to solve it by adding

EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode = 1
OverrideGPUValidation = 1

to my /etc/adobe/mms.cfg file

A full list of settings can be found at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … figuration

Arch Linux

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