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I was following the instructions on this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash .

I run this in the terminal: sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install and I get this output: 2014-07-26 01:56:02 (2,47 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.BqGj40yYUE/google-chrome-stable_36.0.1985.125-1_‌​amd64.deb’ saved [48386260/48386260] and after restarting Chromium, Flash is not detected on YouTube and the HTML5 player is started.

Running sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status prints the following lines in the terminal:

Flash Player version installed on this system : 14.0.0.145
Flash Player version available on upstream site: 14.0.0.145

But I still don't have Flash in Chromium on YouTube.

I have this entry in chrome://plugins page and Flash works normally on other websites:

http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab180/silviubogan/Screenshotfrom2014-07-26022752.png enter image description here

I really need some help.

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There is no problem with your installation. Youtube videos automatically start in Chrome and Chromium with HTML5 now by default and as far as I know there is nolonger a workaround or other way around this. You used to be able to opt-out of the html5 trial under the youtube settings. All I can suggest is to use firefox instead or switch to a different video site.

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    HTML5 should be better. I don't know why he would want to use Adobe Flash Player at all. This is the best answer.
    – John Scott
    Jul 28, 2014 at 3:14
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    @FuzzyToothpaste some people have issues with choppy video and cpu consumption with HD
    – mchid
    Jul 28, 2014 at 3:17
  • Oh. I've never had such a problem. Also, if the video is choppy or not depends on the browser you are using because no plugins are in use. Are they choppy in Mozilla Firefox or WebKit browsers?
    – John Scott
    Jul 28, 2014 at 3:20
  • @FuzzyToothpaste I personally haven't had too much of an issue with this. At one point I wanted to take advantage of VDPAU and VAAPI accelerated decoding but Google chrome no longer allows netscape-like plugins so to me, it really doesn't matter.
    – mchid
    Jul 28, 2014 at 3:54
  • I want to use Flash because the HTML5 player is slow and unstable on my computer. On Firefox, YouTube still uses Flash and the Flash-based player is working well, it is stable and fast. But on Chromium I cannot replace the HTML5 player with the Flash-based player using the YouTube settings.
    – silviubogan
    Jul 28, 2014 at 17:48

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