Monday, June 22, 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 slow youtube(flash) video fix

The problem
Online flash videos such as youtube videos don't play well on Ubuntu 9.04

Reason
The default flash plugin for Ubuntu 9.04 is set to swfdec instead of adobe flash. swfdec seems to be buggy at the moment.

Solution
  • Uninstall following packages : mozilla-swfdec, libswfdec
sudo apt-get remove mozilla-swfdec libswfdec
  • Install Adobe flash plugin 10 from its site.

This should fix the problem.
Posted by Navin Kumar Verma at 6:10 PM

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 25, 2009 at 8:07 AM

    this does not fix the issue, it is slower even with adobe flash player 10

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  2. Luis EnriqueMay 3, 2010 at 7:22 PM

    Thanks a lot!
    It fixed the issue for me, but just in Mozilla Firefox. Google Chrome still doesn't work.

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