Ubuntu 10.4 and Youtube

[Peter Parker]

Since Father's Day i have been the proud owner of an HP Mini 311 set up as a dual boot Windows 7/Ubuntu 10.04 machine. I am a noob to the Linux World and I have actually enjoyed learning Linux but I ave one problem I cant get around. I do not seem to be able to get Youtube to work in chromium or Firefox or even using the Mini tube app. It just freezes up.

It works fine in Windows and all of my plugins work in Linux.


Any educated guesses?

 

[turbosat]

Don't look at utube much, is the video they show in Flash? If so, you may need to be sure the flashplayer plugin is installed in your web browser. Google "flashplayer-plugin test" and see if the test will display on your browser.

 

[Peter Parker]

Don't look at utube much, is the video they show in Flash? If so, you may need to be sure the flashplayer plugin is installed in your web browser. Google "flashplayer-plugin test" and see if the test will display on your browser.

All plugins test out as working. Toutube itself uses flash. The minitube linux app does not.

 

[DodgerKing]

I've used Ubuntu and Mint and have been able to use Youtube

 

[Peter Parker]

I never did get minitube to work properly but I think that is because the installer package does not auto install all the required packages. Others have had the same problem and the suggested fixes did not work for me---or many others.

I did however get Youtube to work inside a browser. That was not really what I was going for but it may be as close as I will get.


Thanks to all that tried to help.