I
think an update to the flash plug-in for Linux some time in the last
few months broke it for most YouTube videos on some computers.
An old computer with an AMD Athlon CPU, running Lucid, some time since the start of 2012 lost the ability to play most youtube videos. A few would play, the rest just showed plain black rectangles with no controls or right-click menu (other than generic Firefox menu). Fresh install with Precise made no difference. Firefox, Chrome, made no difference. Chromium (closed source) browser, though, worked, with its built-in copy of Flash. Also, opting in to the HTML5 mode on www.youtube.
Also tried Puppy Slacko with SeaMonkey and Adobe Flash, same results as Ubuntu: no joy.
On other computers I use (running various Linuxen and the usual Flash), Flash plays everything it is supposed to as far as I can tell, same as always.
An old computer with an AMD Athlon CPU, running Lucid, some time since the start of 2012 lost the ability to play most youtube videos. A few would play, the rest just showed plain black rectangles with no controls or right-click menu (other than generic Firefox menu). Fresh install with Precise made no difference. Firefox, Chrome, made no difference. Chromium (closed source) browser, though, worked, with its built-in copy of Flash. Also, opting in to the HTML5 mode on www.youtube.
Also tried Puppy Slacko with SeaMonkey and Adobe Flash, same results as Ubuntu: no joy.
On other computers I use (running various Linuxen and the usual Flash), Flash plays everything it is supposed to as far as I can tell, same as always.
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