Questions tagged [flash]
Flash Players and Flash in general (the format etc). Use this tag if you have trouble enabling or installing Flash in Ubuntu.
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Why are embedded flash videos (like youtube) so heavy on the GPU?
I have noticed (in psensor, and listening to the fan) that my GPU is terribly hot when playing youtube videos.
What happens at that point? Is this related to Flash in Ubuntu?
Youtube in Firefox and ...
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Every apt-get install returns flashplugin error, but install works
I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 using wubi. I am now still in the process of installing my development environments. I have seen the following error occur multiple times.
For example, just ...
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How can I get flash working on Kubuntu 11.04 64bit?
Flash is not working on Kubuntu 11.04, 64bit on any browser. Even after a purge and reinstall, any flash application gives either says the plugin is missing or not up to date (depends on browser).
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SWF file as screensaver
I'd like to use an SWF file as screensaver.
From xscreensaver FAQ:
To play SWF Flash animations:
Macromedia's stand-alone Flash player has xscreensaver support, as of version 6.0.79 and later....
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USB turn write protection off forced
I have a USB-flash device (SanDisk SDCZ33 BM120423519D) with no hardware switch, which is stuck in readonly mode:
# hdparm /dev/sdf
/dev/sdf:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 ...
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How do I get adobe flash working in Chrome or Chromium on Ringtail?
I have recently upgraded to Ringtail and for some reason flash isn't working on either Chrome or Chromium. It works in firefox but I prefer Chrome as my browser so switching to firefox when a website ...
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FireFox video flashing white boxes
I moved to Ubuntu 11 x64 abt 2 weeks ago from Windows 7 x64. I noticed that some videos on FireFox flashes white/black boxes here & there
Boxes appear flashing about even before the video started
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Is there any Adobe Flash Alternative which runs Actionscript 3 on Browser?
I am an Engineering student and due to this pandemic, I was asked to do a virtual simulation of a lab.
https://vem-iitg.vlabs.ac.in/Experiment_DC.html .
I am using a ubuntu 20.4 machine and I use both ...
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Not able to play youtube videos - Failed to load "libpepflashplayer.so" [duplicate]
I am getting the following errors when I play a YouTube video:
Failed to load "libpepflashplayer.so"
Freswrapper is a translation layer which needs PPAPI plugin backend. Ensure your system have "...
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Where is the flash whitelist and blacklist on Firefox?
In Tools--->Add-ons-->Plugins-->Shockwave Flash I selected Ask to activate. Now I need to explicitly allow flash to play on every website I visit. It is possible to Allow and Remember or ...
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Flash not supported on webapps
On Ubuntu 14.04, you cannot see flash contents using a webapp such as youtube or grooveshark.
I installed flashplugin-istaller and pepperflashplugin-nonfree and I can see flash contents on both ...
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Cannot install adobe flash player
I can't install Adobe Flash player. I tried terminal, Ubuntu Software Centre, and Synaptic Package Manager, but I got error message:
flashplugin-installer:
Depends: libnss3-1d but it is not going to ...
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Flash player won't start after Ubuntu update
very new on Linux as well on Ubuntu. I have install in my PC the Ubuntu 11.10 and after a regular Ubuntu update, the Flash player cannot start.
I have uninstall the Flash player several times to ...
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Allowing Flash to access the clipboard
I use cacoo.com that is developed in Flash (a tool to make diagrams).
Running it in Windows works fine. But in Ubuntu, it seems that it can't access the system clipboard, blocking actions like Ctrl+Z ...
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When I full-screen a flash video, it takes over both monitors
If I play a Hulu video in a browser on one monitor and then click the "full-screen" button, the video takes over the whole screen. But a glitchy copy of the video also takes over my second screen. But ...
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flash player plugin 11.2.202.442 over 11.2.202.440 update [duplicate]
How do I install flash player 11.2.202.442 over 11.2.202.440? Using Ubuntu 12.04.
This is my wife's computer, and she just told me she can't see any videos using Flash Player. Message says She needs ...
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NVIDIA Video Engine Utilization
I've realized that the majority of the Linux distributions and their video player applications, even Adobe Flash Player, don't use Video Engine Utilization, and I want to know why? Because at least on ...
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Flash player keeps crashing in firefox with ubuntu 12.04
I am new to ubuntu and the last few weeks my flash player keeps crashing every time i want to watch a video. it all started when i tries to fix a problem where all of my videos were blue an strange. ...
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youtube videos won't fullscreen properly on dual monitor setup [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make YouTube fullscreen actually fullscreen?
When I try to make youtube videos fullscreen, they become boxed within the middle of the screen, with the control bar not ...
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What is the status of getting flash and chromium for Ubuntu ARM?
I have Ubuntu dual booting on a Samsung ARM Chromebook but have to go back to Chrome OS if I want to watch a flash video or do a Google Hangout. Is there a way to have these capabilities in Ubuntu for ...
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how to install flash plugin on ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit version
When I play online videos, they are often interrupted with many blinks and other disturbances. Many times I was shown an error message that the flash player crashed. When I tried to install the flash ...
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Problems with Adobe Flash Plugin in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Though the Software center is showing that "Adobe Flash Plugin" is installed in my computer, which is a Compaq Presario c700 running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, yet some websites like www.youtube.com is ...
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I failed to safely eject my USB drive and lost data...how do I get it back?
I have to admit I didn't "Safetly Eject", but I have done this a million times... what gives, and how do I get my data back??
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Chrome crash when trying to see a Youtube video using Adobe Flash
Every time I visit Youtube on Chrome the page crashes, not just that Flash player has crashed message, the whole page crashes and says nothing about what the problem was caused by.
I have Chrome ...
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How to install ubuntu restricted extras but not flash?
Like the title says! i just want to know how to install Ubuntu Restricted Extras without the flash packages.
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constantly receives an error about flashplugin-installer
I am using Ubuntu 14.04.1. From the day that which i have installed it, there has been an error message of the following type appears:
failure to download extra data files
the following packages ...
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flash player doesn't work on chromium
I have upgraded to 14.04LTS and my flash player doesn't work on chromium facebook only!!! It is the latest version of adobe, and works on you tube, as well as with firefox facebook.
Am I missing ...
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Flash player (in Firefox) is unstable in 14.04
For 13.10, I used this guide to get Intel iGPU-supported playback of flash videos in Firefox: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/adobe-flash-player-hardware.html
All in all, Intel graphics acceleration ...
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Flash doesn't work with Fogger
I recently installed Fogger but it isn't using flash plugin. Of course I have flash installed, but I can't watch YouTube videos without HTML5 enabled.
Please someone tell me how or what can I do? I ...
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3D-accelerated Adobe Flash?
How can I get Flash to be 3D-accelerated for a computer with a powerful discrete graphics card? Is there any specific version of Flash required or specific configuration for it?
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What Flash button generators are there?
I have a client that wants to have Flash buttons on their website. As much as I hate Flash, I am trying to comply with their request.
I have not been able to find a single Flash button generator for ...
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Can you use the new beta Adobe Flash 10.2 in Google Chrome
Just wondering is it possible to use the latest Adobe Flash build (10.2) in Google Chrome? And what are the steps to achieve this?
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Firefox youtube flash player shows as grey box?
Firefox and Youtube videos were working after upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 but a couple of weeks ago, my Youtube flash video player shows up as a grey box. The sound still works and I can hear the ...
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Is Flash player software installed on Ubuntu by default?
Do we need to download flashplayer on Ubuntu or is it already there?
I installed it on my PC just by passing the command in terminal:
sudo apt-get insall flashplugin-installer
And it doesn't seem ...
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Fullscreen YouTube video crash
I am running Ubuntu 14.10.
I was listening to this YouTube video: http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=-tJYN-eG1zk&p=n
When I decided to make it full screen, but it didn't want to go, so I very ...
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why won't youtube videos play but all other websites work fine?
I've tried everything I can think of, asking in a forum in spanish, uninstalling flash, looking for 64 bit versions, sorry but my mind just does not have another idea here and I'm absolutely and ...
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YouTube will not play in Firefox or Chrome on fresh 12.04 install
First of all let me state I am new to Ubuntu and the Linux platform all together. I decided to install on an older PC (Pentium 3) to get some use out of it. Everything seems to have installed fine (...
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Diagnosing persistent Flash streaming failure for DRM content
I'm trying to implement the fixes from Adobe (as mentioned in this other question) but I'm having no success.
I'm running 64-bit 12.04. When I try the Flash test as described on this Adobe guide:
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Flash Webcam non responsive
I've got the same problem as this gentleman: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+question/176541
Where the webcam settings / access does not work at all / is completely ...
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Adobe Flash .sol location [duplicate]
I've looked around the internet for a while and this forum/place and still can't find an answer. So, I decided to register and ask the question.
I'm looking for the location of .SOLs when you play ...
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Flash stopped working on Chrome
I upgraded my system to Ocelot from Narwhal and Flash stopped working on Chrome, the plugin is installed on the Software Center, I removed it and installed it thrice but still, no Flash support on ...
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Flash replacement for Linux
I am using Adobe flash browser plugin 11.0 in Linux however playing a simple youtube clip causes the CPU to spike considerably on the npviewer.bin process with Firefox, the same is true for Chrome on ...
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I can't install flash on ubuntu 14.04 to play facebook games, videos or youtube videos [duplicate]
I can't install flash on Ubuntu 14.04 to play facebook games, videos or youtube videos.
I'm using firefox.
I've installed Ubuntu restricted extras.
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Need to make flash-plugin work with Dooble browser version 0.07
I use Dooble version 0.07 which comes along with Ubuntu 12.04 repositories. I cannot make flash-plugin work with Dooble no matter what. I have tried to find the default folder for Dooble plugins to ...
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Is swap memory required on a flash drive installation?
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on a 16gig flash drive without a swap partition. I heard from many users that skipping swap on installing Ubuntu on flash drives extends the speed and life of a flash ...
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How to detect flash process in Google Chrome?
I'am using this script -- lightsOn, to delay screensaver when flash playing.
However, the script provides only the Chromuim way:
flash_process=`pgrep -lfc "chromium-browser --type=plugin --plugin-...
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Is there a way to get Miro to use flash?
I recently downloaded Miro which I used to use with great satisfaction in Windows, however on Ubuntu, Miro cannot play Flash videos or sites because of Flash compatibility issues. Yet I have Flash ...
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Can I use the same built in flash library from Chrome in Firefox?
Chrome comes with flash support by default, Firefox does not. If I use both on my system is there a way to use the library responsible displaying flash content in Chrome to do the same in Firefox?
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No audio in Adobe Flash
I am on 11.10 64bit and I have installed flash from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/.
I had downloaded install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz and moved libflashplayer.so to ~/....
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How to update the Flash Player?
I've installed Flash Player 10.1 to do some tests, now I can't go back to the lastest version (10.3).
I've gone to the Flash download page, downloaded and installed "APT for Ubuntu 10.04+", but it's ...
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