Flash video with Opera browser

[willie the cat]

I have Mint 7 installed on 2 machines.
I have a dual-boot with Vista on my laptop-Core2duo with 2Gb DDR2 Intel integrated video, and a WUBI install on my older, less powerful desktop. Celeron 3.2 and 1Gb DDR400 memory, AGP Radeon 9250.
Flash video such as Youtube works perfectly with the Opera browser on the the WUBI install, but only the sound plays on the notebook. I can't get any picture at all.
1/ Can anyone explain why this is so?
2/ Is there any way I can get Flash video on Opera on my notebook?

Flash video works perfectly with Firefox on both machines, so the codecs are there, somewhere.

[lagagnon]

In the Opera address bar type "about:plugins". You should see this:

Shockwave Flashapplication/futuresplash spl
application/x-shockwave-flash swf
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so

What exactly does your wubi laptop show?

[ikey]

I have seen similar problems with FireFox and Opera on Mint and Ubuntu.
It results from the flashplayer package not being.. packaged.. properly.

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sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree && sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin


If the new plugin package doesn't seem to work at all the following might be needed to make the plugin 'visible'
to Opera and Firefox

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cd ~/.mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplayer/libflashplayer.so .


Only two problems I know of can occur; the plugins directory doesn't exist (mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins) or the adobe-flashplayer directory has a slightly different name. A quick look in /usr/lib will show you (ls /usr/lib/*adobe*)

- Ikey Doherty

[willie the cat]

In the Opera address bar type "about:plugins". You should see this:

Shockwave Flashapplication/futuresplash spl
application/x-shockwave-flash swf
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so

What exactly does your wubi laptop show?

Both machines show what you have above.

[willie the cat]

I have seen similar problems with FireFox and Opera on Mint and Ubuntu.
It results from the flashplayer package not being.. packaged.. properly.

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree && sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin


If the new plugin package doesn't seem to work at all the following might be needed to make the plugin 'visible'
to Opera and Firefox

Code: Select all

cd ~/.mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplayer/libflashplayer.so .


Only two problems I know of can occur; the plugins directory doesn't exist (mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins) or the adobe-flashplayer directory has a slightly different name. A quick look in /usr/lib will show you (ls /usr/lib/*adobe*)

- Ikey Doherty

I cut and pasted these into terminal on my notepad, and now it tells me that I have the latest Flash version installed.
Flash video still isn't working in Opera, but working just fine in Firefox. I've tried Youtube and BBC Iplayer anong others.

Beginners question: How do I "cd" to a particular directory?

[DrHu]

http://beginnerlinuxtutorial.com/help-t ... x-command/

CD description..

I tried youtube.com in opera 10, do you have a specific video that doesn't work in opera 10 from youtube.com
--of course I use a desktop..

I have a dual-boot with Vista on my laptop-Core2duo with 2Gb DDR2 Intel integrated video

Notebook
In terminal, check

inxi -F
--short list of all hardware detected by the OS

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/sound-solutio ... users.html

options snd-hda-intel model=laptop enable=1 index=0

--Intel video or intel hda audio, sometimes need extra help for sound..

[willie the cat]

Here's what the inxi -F shows:


System: Host willie-laptop Kernel 2.6.28-14-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 T5500 (SMP) cache 2048 KB flags (sse3 nx lm) bmips 6651.66
Clock Speeds: (1) 1000.00 MHz (2) 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.6.0 Res 1280x800@60.0hz
Audio: Card Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.18rc3
Network: Card-1 Marvell 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver sky2 v: 1.22 at port 4000
Card-2 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection driver iwl3945 v: 1.2.26ks
Disks: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (3.0% used) 1: /dev/sda HITACHI HTS54161 160.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 33G used: 4.5G (15%) ID:swap-1 size: 1.59GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
Info: Processes 144 Uptime 58 min Memory 397.7/2004.3MB Client Shell inxi 1.0.6

Does this help?

[DrHu]

Audio: Card Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel

There you go, intel hd audio chipset, will need intel= for the sound
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012

HDA sound chips
snd-hda-intel
The Intel Hda sound chip is widely used and can be found on almost every desktop and laptop PC manufactured over the last few years. There are numerous versions of this chip and a zillion configurations that OEMs have made by programming them for their particular needs. This has created a nightmare for the driver writers since the OEMs are very lazy about publishing the details

[willie the cat]

Audio: Card Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel

There you go, intel hd audio chipset, will need intel= for the sound
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012

HDA sound chips
snd-hda-intel
The Intel Hda sound chip is widely used and can be found on almost every desktop and laptop PC manufactured over the last few years. There are numerous versions of this chip and a zillion configurations that OEMs have made by programming them for their particular needs. This has created a nightmare for the driver writers since the OEMs are very lazy about publishing the details

Sound isn't the problem. Using Opera on my laptop, I get sound but no picture on Youtube, BBC Iplayer and other Flash streaming sites.
Strangely, Opera worked "out of the box" on my desktop machine
Everything works fine with Firefox on both machines.

[willie the cat]

I still can't get Flash video or games to work in opera.
Is this normal?
The sound works just fine. although a lot of users have posted about sound issues.