I can't watch some videos on firefox with ubuntu?

Question

I have firefox 3 and I'm running ubuntu. It won't let me watch videos on ebaumsworld.com . it never gives me errors, just a small blank area with no video in it. Also on some other websites, it streams the video without the normal control buttons in the window(play/pause, tracking bar,volume etc.). There is no way to fastforward or rewind these. It has no problems with youtube. All the normal things work.

Answer 1

It looks like ebaumsworld uses Flash video.  Youtube does as well, but maybe they encode their videos differently.  Make sure you have the Multiverse repository enabled and then install flashplugin-nonfree in Synaptic.  You probably have one of the open source plugins enabled that works with Youtube, but isn't fully Flash compliant.

Answer 2

Sometimes some videos are set up just to run on explorer.  So check that end out.