I've seen a few similar questions on the web, but none of them solve the problem for me. Essentially random youtube videos won't play in the chrome browser, but work in firefox just fine. Sometimes they even work in chrome on a website that displays the video still hosted at youtube, but won't work if I visit the actual youtube page!
- Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
- Chromium: Version 30.0.1599.114 Ubuntu 12.04 (30.0.1599.114-0ubuntu0.12.04.3)
- Chromium plugin: Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
Here's a few things I've already tried:
- uninstall and reinstall all flash packages
- disable all other chromium plugins (vlc, divx, etc.)
- youtube html5 trial (in/out)
- using an extension to change my user agent to not chrome on ubuntu
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I haven't found anyone else with such a persistent problem!
Best Answer
One thing that worked for me was disabling the "VLC Multimedia Plugin" in
chrome://plugins
. Then I discovered this question, which suggested replacing thechromium-codecs-ffmpeg
package withchromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
. One(which automatically removed the non-
-extra
version) later and everything was working perfectly.