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bug #36723: Gnash will no longer play videos on Youtube for me

Submitter:  Brandon <gogeden>
Submitted:  Mon 25 Jun 2012 05:54:45 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Release:  0.8.10 Status:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gg0
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Tue 03 Jul 2012 11:06:55 PM UTC, comment #13: 

That's odd. The Trisquel one is gone. I deleted the Google one by accident. Well, at least I got it down somewhere :P Thanks again!

Brandon <gogeden>
Tue 03 Jul 2012 10:49:15 PM UTC, comment #12: 

It would great if you said that on both trisquel bug tracker and youtube api forum for the record.

Gabriele Giacone <gg0>
Group Member
Tue 03 Jul 2012 10:37:59 PM UTC, comment #11: 

Problem resolved after deletion of the ~/.gnashrc file. Thanks guys! :D

Brandon <gogeden>
Tue 03 Jul 2012 09:46:13 PM UTC, comment #10: 

Make sure you don't have more than 1 flash player installed.

Rob Savoye <rsavoye>
Group administrator
Tue 03 Jul 2012 09:44:56 PM UTC, comment #9: 

~/.gnashrc and ~/.gnashpluginrc are files you could try to remove if present to exclude possible bad configurations. There are also system wide ones /etc/gnashrc and /etc/gnashpluginrc I assume you didn't touch.
~/.gnash directory contains flash cookies, removal shouldn't hurt anyone.

Gabriele Giacone <gg0>
Group Member
Tue 03 Jul 2012 09:31:00 PM UTC, comment #8: 

I do not have these directories. I only have ~/.gnash. Maybe use "sudo apt-get autoremove gnash"?

Trisquel 5.5

Brandon <gogeden>
Tue 03 Jul 2012 01:52:46 PM UTC, comment #7: 

Try resetting gnash config by killing all gnash instances and removing ~/.gnashrc and ~/.gnashpluginrc files. Restart the browser.

BTW at http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/brigantia-development I read
"Gnash is installed but does not load in abrowser (fixed in 20120305)", maybe it's been fixed. What trisquel release?


[triquel bug http://trisquel.info/en/issues/5831]
[youtube api forum https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/youtube-api-gdata/rkDaKanw7pw]

Gabriele Giacone <gg0>
Group Member
Tue 03 Jul 2012 01:12:30 PM UTC, comment #6: 

- I am using 0.8.10
- It is Gnash shipped with Trisquel
- I turned off startStopped and it still occurs

Brandon <gogeden>
Tue 03 Jul 2012 12:48:01 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Bug title is correct: "for me", just for you.

- What version?
- gnash shipped by triquel distro or rebuilt by you?
- if rebuilt, what configure options?
- "Click to play" means you enabled startStopped so it wants you click on the button to start playing each video. To disable it, set startStopped to off in ~/.gnashrc | ~/.gnashpluginrc where it's set to on or right click on a movie, "Edit - Preferences - Player" and deselect "Start Gnash in pause mode".

Gabriele Giacone <gg0>
Group Member
Tue 03 Jul 2012 11:15:07 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Any YouTube URL does not work for me. I submitted a form on YouTube API forum about this issue and I have yet to get anything back or even have the form get submitted by any of the people behind the forum.

Brandon <gogeden>
Tue 26 Jun 2012 11:21:49 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Here everything works as usual.

Any specific url?

Gabriele Giacone <gg0>
Group Member
Tue 26 Jun 2012 07:02:24 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I posted on the YouTube API forum and spread the problem as much as I could. :)

Brandon <gogeden>
Mon 25 Jun 2012 09:05:35 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Same here. Unfortunately this is out of our control. It was YouTube intentionally playing nicely with Gnash by providing Gnash users with the older, compatible, player.

They may have decided to drop such support, or done so accidentally. The most useful thing to do would be writing them an email reporting the problem.

Start from here: http://www.youtube.com/t/contact_us

Or tweet, blog, make noise about it, if you can't get in touch with them.

Sandro Santilli <strk>
Group Member
Mon 25 Jun 2012 05:54:45 AM UTC, original submission:  

I reported this in the Trisquel bug tracker and was told to post here. So I'll just quote what I said there.

"Gnash is no longer playing Youtube videos. Sometimes the video box is just black. Other times it displays whatever I just displayed (So if I had a picture of a cat, it would show that or if I scroll down the page, it will show some muck of youtube's interface.). Sometimes it will show the grey "Click to play" button underneath but not display the video. I've cleaned my cache but that did nothing and I've tried disabling gnash and re-enabling it, I've also tried disabling all add-ons and that had no effect. Anyone else experiencing this problem?"

Brandon <gogeden>

 

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