Ubuntu – I can’t play some Youtube videos

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I don't know whether this question already asked or not in Askubuntu. So, what my question is now I am facing a (weired) problem while playing Youtube videos. Some of the videos streaming well but some videos are not. I am getting an error message saying that "An error occurred. Please try again later(Playback ID: some playback id). I tried both in Mozilla as well as Chrome but no luck. Flash plug-in installed correctly that's why some videos playing well. I restarted my PC and router still same problem.

I tried the following command also
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

I am on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x64

So, can anyone help me please.

Best Answer

Close all browsers and do the following:

  1. After having installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, uninstall flashplugin-installer with the following command:
    sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-installer
  2. sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin (which is 64bit and more stable than flashplugin-installer (32bit))
  3. Open Firefox > Click Help in Menu bar at the top > Troubleshooting Information > Refresh Firefox, after which it will start up cleanly.
  4. Make sure AdBlock Plus is disabled on the YouTube website (if you have that addon installed).

Try YouTube now and see if it worked.

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