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Asked: 2014-07-13 00:59:08 +0800 CST

Unable to play FIFA videos, StarSports Videos on Firefox 30 (Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit)

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I am using FF 30 on Ubuntu 14.04. I installed flash and youtube is working fine. However some videos from some sites aren't playing - Foot ball videos (FIFA) and Cricket videos (Starsports) etc. Just black screen appears.

Same videos are working fine on Google chrome

Some links which I couldn't play on Firefox

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/videos/highlights/match=300186474/index.html

http://www.starsports.com/cricket/tour/tourid=130/matchvideos/vod/videoid=1340276/index.html

14.04

1 Answers

  1. This is looks like this is to do with the version of Flash - Linux systems now have to use an old version of Flash.

    The short answer is use Google Chrome - command line instructions for installing it are here.
    Chrome uses an embedded version of Flash (Pepper Flash), which is still updated to the latest version on all distributions.
    You can also use Chromium and the Pepper flash plugin:enter image description here

    Other answers - which are better for Firefox users (like me):

    • Use FreshPlayerPlugin, which borrows the plugin from Google Chrome. Instructions for 14.04:

      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freshplayerplugin

      You can then open about:addons in Firefox, and enable the plugin under 'Plugins'. It may be easier if you remove the original Flash plugin first, as Firefox seems to prefer using that. It does seem to work (the usual Flash plugin doesn't):

      enter image description here

    • Use Pipelight (instructions here) which sort of uses Wine to pretend to be a Windows machine.

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