video plugins for Firefox

[Goh Lip]

Donn wrote:
> On Sunday, 02 August 2009 23:03:07 Gerald I. Evenden wrote:
>> A few months ago I tried to update plugins to handle some of the newer
>> videos but had a great deal of difficulty and thought I had lost Firefox
>> altogether.
> I'm also in video hell. My Hardy and Jaunty machines (i.e. all of them :) ) 
> have both gone on strike. It's like there's a Won't Play Your Flash Videos 
> union and they both joined one night on a whim.
> 
> I have not found a good solution. I have tried various add-ons to download 
> flash videos, but they work on/off. The latest trick is trawling the /tmp 
> directory for videos and then copying them out for playing in mplayer and 
> company.
> 
> Video sucks and it's confusing, and it sucks :D
> 
> \d

IMPORTANT: Applies only to 64 bits

I remember some time back you (Donn) listed your about:plugins and if I 
recall correctly, there were 2 entries for flash plugins, one with 
libflashplayer.so and another with npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

Please recheck by going to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and see if there are 
1 or 2 flashplugins, there should be 1 only and it should be 
npwrapper.libflashplayer.so.  Delete (better still move away somewhere) 
the other libflashplayer.so and restart firefox. Hope it works.

Gerald, was this also the case in yours? Older videos should also work 
in newer flash versions.

Regards,
Goh Lip