[InterKnight]

I had trouble with video streams from the Web in the past, but then I installed (at the recommendation of my Uncle) the Firefox Media Player Connectivity plugin. This plugin allows one to launch streaming content within an external player, rather than from an embedded player on the Web site in question. (This only works for non-Flash media) For some reason, I don't have any further problems with streaming video.

Hope this can help someone.

Take care.

[playme123]

Originally Posted by kamau rono

I downloaded automatix but had problems getting it too install. I have decide I need more experience with Debian/Linux , learning the shell and the use of script before installing packages. I'm getting stuck with fundamentals.
Thanks for your help

I have read on the ubuntu forums if you are going to dowload and install automatix then its best done after a fresh install, the ubuntu forums dont recomend autmatix as they say its full of bugs and so forth. I will say I havent had a problem with it but did install it after freshly installing ubuntu so that might be the reason why I have not had any problems though.

[linuxphile]

kamau rono,

In firefox if you type in about:config in the address bar and hit go do you see Flash listed in the resulting page?

[briealeida]

playme123,

That's part of the problem with Autmatix. It's not really clear who will and who won't have an issue. I had it on my desktop's Ubuntu partition (I blasphemed and put OpenSUSE over it) and didn't have a problem. On another desktop that I had it really errored out and generally sucked. I think it's one of those risk vs. reward things.

Glad you were successful, though!

[playme123]

as I say have had no probs with automatix but as I say best done with a fresh install though. Some people really dislike it in the ubuntu forums

[lotuseclat79]

Originally Posted by linuxphile

kamau rono,

In firefox if you type in about:config in the address bar and hit go do you see Flash listed in the resulting page?

Hi linuxphile,

Flash is a plugin, and requires the use of "about: plugins" (without the space and quotes) in the address bar to verify.

With the recent security updates to both Flash and Java, I see the following info for Flash (using about: plugins) after updating both Flash and Java (JRE):

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

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

-- Tom

P.S. Note: Java is now at release:
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_02-b05

File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_02

[linuxphile]

Lotus, the aboutlugins is what was going through my mind, however, my fingers and mind weren't communicating when I typed that message :-/

[JohnUSAF]

Install mplayer (search add/remove progs) and the mplayer mozilla plugin. Then go to synaptic package monitor (under System -> Administration) search for Totem, remove it and you should be good to go.