Flash video freezes in fullscreen, sound continues

[DrDmoney]

What I think the strangest thing about my situation is that after breaking in a new installation Ubuntu flash playback fixes itself. I don't know how it does it, but it just does. I just did a reinstallion of ubuntu, and lets hope it fixes itself again...

[jhomie1]

Right click on the screen you are playing for example any video you choose on youtube.com and click settings then uncheck hardware acceleration. that should do the trick. hope this helps.

[Ecip]

thank you, i solved my problem with videos freezing in fullscreen as per this site and the advice in this threat:

http://www.noobrescue.com/blog/flash...n-ubuntu-10-10

[imixmuan]

Noobie (ubuntu 10.10 on a dell latittude d620) trying to solve Flash freezing issue with a potentially stupid question:

I open a terminal and type in the command:

sudo mkdir /etc/adobe hit enter and get " file or directory exists" and new prompt line

I try copy and pasting full command text into the terminal window and still get same message. Do I need to delete the adobe file in /etc before trying to enter commands? Am I not running as root and that's the issue?

apologies if above is noob mistake

[Nencio]

sudo mkdir /etc/adobe hit enter and get " file or directory exists" and new prompt line

mkdir is used to create new directories. The message you get does mean exactly what it says. You can check if the /etc/adobe directory already exists with the command

ls /etc

which will list all the directories inside /etc. see if adobe is in that list. if it does so, then just simply try the other two commands from the work around:

echo "OverrideGPUValidation=true" >~/mms.cfg
sudo mv ~/mms.cfg /etc/adobe/

The first one creates a text file called mms.cfg, which contains the string "OverrideGPUValidation=true", in your current directory ~.
The second one move the file to the /etc/adobe directory.

[lovinglinux]

Noobie (ubuntu 10.10 on a dell latittude d620) trying to solve Flash freezing issue with a potentially stupid question:

I open a terminal and type in the command:

sudo mkdir /etc/adobe hit enter and get " file or directory exists" and new prompt line

I try copy and pasting full command text into the terminal window and still get same message. Do I need to delete the adobe file in /etc before trying to enter commands? Am I not running as root and that's the issue?

apologies if above is noob mistake

Get Flash-Aid and run it. It will apply that tweak if not present, will remove conflicting plugins and install the latest beta, according to your system architecture and version.

[technocp]

Please provide the output of the following commands and instructions. This will make sure I will have a good understanding of your Firefox and Flash installations, so I don't need to guess what might be happening to your system:

1 - Flash Version

Type about:config in Firefox address bar, then type plugin.expose_full_path in the filter, then double-click the same item in the results to make it true. Then type about:plugins in the address bar, find Shockwave Flash, copy the corresponding Path and Version and paste here. it should look lie the image below:



2 - Firefox version and architecture

To find Firefox version and architecture, click "Help >> About Mozilla Firefox" in the menu. The info will be located at the bottom of the info dialog (you need to resize the window to see it):




3 - System Info

Execute the following commands then copy the generated file, named firefox-report.txt from your Desktop and upload it here or paste the contents.

To execute those commands, select the entire content below, then go to "Applications >> Accessories >> Terminal" and click the terminal with the middle-mouse button.

echo 'Ubuntu Architecture' > ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
uname -a >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Ubuntu Version' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
cat /etc/lsb-release >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox Packages' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'firefox*' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox binaries' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
which firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/bin/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/local/bin/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /opt/firefox/firefox >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Firefox divertion' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Sources' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Flash packages' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'flash*' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Plugin locations' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
locate libflashplayer.so  >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
locate flashplugin-alternative.so  >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo 'Flash symlinks' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
echo '' >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libflashplayer.so  >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so  >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin  >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
file /var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so  >> ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt
firefox ~/Desktop/firefox-report.txt

I dont know what you were trying to do out of that but when I changed plugin.expose_full_path to true every thing went OK and now I am able to see my videos in full screen.

Thanks

[masajimckee]

is something supposed to happen when you do these commands... mine is the same as the noob(also a noob) and when I typed in those two commands they didn't do anything.

[Pulvret]

I had the same problem and I fixed it by turning off feh which I used to view backgrounds.

[akiragtr]

Worked for me! Thanks