Youtube streaming is not working on totem

Question

This is the error i got while clicking on the videos on the right pane.

"Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file."

I had a inspection on totem plugs and found that there is no youtube.py in this directory (/usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube/)

Answer 1

Hi there is a updated package available from this ppa https://launchpad.net/~barcc/+archive/ppa. To install it from this ppa open a terminal and execute the following commands.

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:barcc/ppa
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get upgrade totem

Hope this will help

Answer 2

I think the problem is that YouTube made some changes in the site on July 22nd that affects all download extensions and plugins. Basically, is not allowing to get the videos using the old urls, so the player throws that error.

I suggest you try my extension FlashVideoReplacer. It allows to watch YouTube, Vimeo and Blip.tv videos using totem, gecko-mediaplayer, gxine, kaffeine, mozplugger, or xine plugins. The beast feature is that it replaces the video on site, so you don't need to start standalone players or download the video. There are limitations tho. It doesn't work on YouTube channels, just single video pages and flash needs to be installed to work.

The extension is for Firefox, but I'm working on versions for Opera and Chrome.

Answer 3

Like lovinglinux says: this is probably because of a change on the YouTube site by Google. And I think the best solution would be to request a backport of that plugin from 10.10 to 10.04 (as it definitely works on 10.10).

Answer 4

I am having this same issue in 10.04

I installed the https://launchpad.net/~barcc/+archive/ppa repo, but the totem package seems too be the same version as in lucid updates.

I installed totem from the repo, but still same error with youtube.

If this works in 10.10, how do you get the backport.