Upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 9.04 Vimeo Players just blank. on Vimeo

I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 fom 8.04 and Vimeo players are just blank (Youtubes are ok) I have tried loading the latest Adobe flash player but that doesn't seem to work. I am using Firefox. Vimeo played ok in Ubuntu 8.04

Any ideas what I could do.

Kingmidas 3 years ago

I had surf about and found and sorted the problem Vimeo now works perfect.
Here is the solution

Run System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager.
Then search "swfdec", select "libswfdec-0.6-90" and "swfdec-mozilla" and remove them.
Start up Firefox with a flash website and the flash plugin installation should pop up again.

Etienne DADA 3 years ago

I think I had a related problem, running on Debian Lenny. In fact lots of video were playing fine, some didn't.

3 videos that didn't play with debian's flash package:
my first video on vimeo : vimeo.com/4323767
Cut-Ups : vimeo.com/2412336
Oi Va Voi "Everytime" : vimeo.com/4211147

Problem in removing libswfdec is that the meta-packages gnome and gnome-desktop-environment are dependant on this one. Shouldn't be easy for debian/ubuntu newbees ! (you have to remove these meta packages, and keep everything that your package manager wants to remove because it thinks their are now unused)

I also had to remove the flashplayer-nonfree package, and remove by hand plugins installed in home directories in ~/.mozilla/plugins/, I also deleted every ~/.macromedia/ folders (not sure it's useful).

After installing the Flash Player 10 from adobe site, every video here plays fine. But that sounds like a big problem - I'm pretty certain lots of linux users won't see my video...

Etienne,
hoping flash will become someday a free software