Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:38:43 -0700, prad wrote: > >> i'm using squeeze stable and gnome. >> >> sometimes youtube vids play just fine, but after a while they don't play >> at all through firefox, but will through epiphany. > > What do you mean by "don't play"? What's showed instead the video? > it loads up, but nothing plays. it freezes and you just see a black window for movieplayer or mplayer.
>> if i download a video, i can't always play it either on movieplayer or >> mplayer. however, put it on another machine and there's no problem (so >> the download is obviously fine). > > Are these videos also flashplayer based movies or different media files > (mpeg, avi...)? Anyway, if you launch the video from command line > probably you will get more information on why it fails to load. > they are whatever i convert it to. none of them work. right now it's working again. i will take your suggestion and see what i can find from the command line when it stops. thx camaleon! -- in friendship, prad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87has0hhuh....@psinom.home