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AVFritze

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Registered: 2016-04-20

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No youtube videos in Firefox

Hi,

what do have to install in order to get youtube videos running inside firefox? Right now I have the YoutTube Flash Video Player installed but nothing will be played. All I can see is an error message which disappeard so fast I can not tell what it is.

Thanks for any help

mrunion

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

Run Firefox from a terminal and see if you can see an error message.

What else have you tried to fix this issue, if anything?

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AVFritze

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Registered: 2016-04-20

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

starting firefox from the CLI doesn't produce any error messages. Inside Firefox I switched from Flash Video Player to HTML5 Video Player with no effect.

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

Do you have Adobe flash player (pkgname: flashplugin) installed?

AVFritze

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

well If I am running pacman it looks like it is not installed. Pacman seaches for the package flashplugin-11.2.202.616-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz but I cann't find this package on verious servers. The only package wich is available is flashplugin-11.2.202.616-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz. I downloaded this package copied it to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ (because all download servers returned Error 404) and ran pacman again - but this doesn't work. Even if I rename the package to flashplugin-11.2.202.616-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz.

Scimmia

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

If you get 404s, that means you need to update your system.

AVFritze

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

well I did an update of the mirrorlist and enabled all servers in Germany and the US - all return

The requested URL returned error: 404

Scimmia

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

I didn't say update the mirrorlist, I said update your system.

WorMzy

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

Not change mirrors, update: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … g_packages

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AVFritze

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

After installing flashplugin I can load and see a youtube video for a short time. After that two or three seconds it stops and I get an error message that an error ocured and I shall try it later once again. So far I couldn't here anything.

Last edited by AVFritze (2016-05-17 19:49:32)

x33a

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

Please post details about your hardware, like the video card, graphics driver, etc.

AVFritze

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Re: No youtube videos in Firefox

I checked the flash player options again. After deactivating flash player and switching the youtube video player to HML5 Video Player it seems to be working.