Streaming videos

[Kaye]

Hey everyone,

I've been having a strange problem with streaming videos ever since I installed Mint (Felicia). When playing a streaming video (YouTube, MegaVideo, The Onion, any of them basically), on occasion (about 75% of the time) at a random point in the video the plugin will freeze and then go black. In order to continue watching, I have to reload the page, then skip forward to where I was in the video, which often causes the same behavior. Sometimes I have to reload the video as many as ten times to get it working again. I don't know if it would be an issue, but I'm using OSS4 for sound. I'm hoping someone's had a similar problem and can help me out? Other than this video problem everything is working quite well really.

Thanks,
Kaye

[merlwiz79]

You could try to reinstall flash.

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apt remove --purge -y flashplugin-nonfree nspluginwrapper

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apt install flashplugin-nonfree

[Kaye]

Seems to have worked -- at least for the moment

Thanks a lot!

[Kaye]

Now a new problem arises!

It seems that flash videos have a much lower volume than everything else on the system. Is there a config I can change to fix this or is the problem deeper than that? (I'm running OSS4 on Felicia, if that matters).

[garda]

Try to play with some audio controls in OSS Mixer. You can run OSS Mixer by pressing ALT+F2 then enter ossxmix into the box. I recommend creating a launcher that points to /usr/bin/ossxmix for easier access to the mixer.

[Kaye]

I actually just fixed this with a little hack.. for some reason, the audio on Flash videos is much lower than the rest of the system (which I don't fully understand), but I configured my media console to raise the volume independently of the oss volume controls, allowing me to raise the volume much more than oss allowed me to. I don't figure it'll hurt the speakers because I don't plan on blasting my music with it, only getting Flash videos to play at a normal volume so I can actually hear them.

Thanks for the help.