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I can't watch youtube videos in either chromium browser or firefox. I've tried installing a plugin or flash player, but neither seem to work. I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm not real experienced on working on computers.

John Hill
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  • Have you tried running `sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras`. – Seth Dec 15 '12 at 23:58
  • Sorry, I'm not real experienced with this kind of stuff. Where exactly do I run that? – John Hill Dec 16 '12 at 00:53
  • You run it in the terminal, open the dash (hit the windows key) and type terminal, it will come up. – Seth Dec 16 '12 at 01:03
  • Well I tried that, and it didn't seem to help. Any more ideas? Thanks for the help! – John Hill Dec 16 '12 at 01:32
  • Did you reboot after you did it? – Seth Dec 16 '12 at 01:36
  • Yes, I did reboot after you reminded me. After I run the command and it runs through everything and stops, the bottom line says something like john-hill@johnhilldesktop$ or something close to that. Is it done after I see that? What should I do after that? I just closed the window. Maybe that was a mistake. – John Hill Dec 16 '12 at 01:47
  • No, its done when it reaches that. – Seth Dec 16 '12 at 01:48
  • Ok, then I guess that didn't work either. Anything else I should try? – John Hill Dec 16 '12 at 01:51
  • There are a lot of other questions on this site about it. I would check them out. Search for "flash not working" – Seth Dec 16 '12 at 01:52
  • Ok thanks a lot for your help. I appreciate your efforts! – John Hill Dec 16 '12 at 01:55
  • https://askubuntu.com/questions/1035661/playing-videos-in-firefox sudo apt install libavcodec-extra worked for me – Rakka Rage Apr 17 '20 at 23:26

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Ok, I found the fix! I uninstalled the Adobe flash player, and now it works. Not sure why, but now I can watch YouTube videos in either Firefox or Chrome, and websites that require flash work now as well. On YouTube, it still asks you to install a plugin, but then it plays it anyway. Thanks for all the help!

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I must admit that it is difficult to find a good browser that plays flash. So I installed this one https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ and am much happier with the performance.

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  • Still doesn't work. I first installed Ubuntu on this computer as a Wubi installation, but then I wanted to eliminate Windows so I downloaded a cd and did a full install that way. What's weird is that it worked ok with the Wubi install, but now I'm having this one issue with the cd installation. Before this install, it gave me an error when I played YouTube videos, but it still played. Now I get the same error but it doesn't play the video. It says "couldn't load plug-in". Thanks for the help! – John Hill Dec 16 '12 at 00:23
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Installing ubuntu-restricted-extras Install ubuntu-restricted-extras fixed the problem for me. Click the above link to install it using Software Centre or use the command below to install using the terminal:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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