Flash Displays Black Screen No Video YouTube Firefox 11

Question

The title says it all, Flash Aid has not helped the situation & Google has not thrown up any recent similarities.

I am running Xubuntu LTS.

about:plugins ~ File: libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

ii  flashplugin-installer                 11.2.202.228ubuntu0.10.04.1                     Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii  libswfdec-0.8-0                       0.8.4-1build1                                   SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder library
ii  swfdec-mozilla                        0.8.2-1ubuntu2                                  Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macromedia Flash)

SOLVED: Regular update, seems to have solved itself. Thanks

Solution

It looks like you have installed 2 different flash players, they probably overwrite some files from one another. The sane thing to do is uninstall all 3 and reinstall Adobe Flash again. Workarounds like manually downloading files from the internet can work, but the update system will not be aware of it and can broke it again when there is an update available.

You can do it either from the Software Centre, or using the command line:

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-mozilla

to remove then and:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

To download and install again the official (Adobe) Flash player.

Comments

[twister_void]

type about:plugins in ur browser address bar and paste output

[twister_void]

try putting s after http in browser address is this resolving your problem

[twister_void]

try running this cmd and put output to this dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep gnash; dpkg -l | grep swf

[fleamour]

Tried that. I believe file to be over written was bigger size than it's replacement? May try again, but pretty sure that did not work for me.

[Javier Rivera]

It looks like you have installed 2 different flash players, they probably overwrite some files from one another. The sane thing to do is uninstall all 3 and reinstall Adobe Flash again. Workarounds like manually downloading files from the internet can work, but the update system will not be aware of it and can broke it again when there is an update available. You can do it either from the Software Centre, or using the command line: sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-mozilla to remove then and: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer To download and install agai

[fleamour]

OK. Done, but same black screen with Flash under FF. Does not bother as Chrome is main browser, but it should work.