There is a package that plays youtube videos without flash called minitube.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:43 PM, John Hupp <lubu...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > On 1/2/2014 7:24 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote: > >> Hello. I downloaded Lubuntu 13.10 today and updated the system >> completely. I'm running on a Dell Dimension 3000 desktop. I'm >> encountering a problem with graphics that is not unique to Lubuntu, but >> perhaps can be solved here. >> >> I use Evolution as my groupware client. Version 3.2.3, that ships with >> many distros based on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, is buggy and annoying. You >> need to have a distro that runs at least Ubuntu 12.10 in order to have >> the dependencies you need to run later versions of Evolution, which work >> much better. >> >> But later versions of Linux bork my graphics in both Firefox and >> Chromium. When I try to play a video, say, on YouTube, the video is >> squished and distorted, just maddening! >> >> So, my quandary: I need later versions of Evolution in order to get my >> work done, which require later versions of the Ubuntu software, but >> these later versions seem to really bork my graphics so that I can't see >> anything! >> >> Oddly, VLC works fine. And I can copy a URL from YouTube, open it in >> VLC, and it works just fine! >> >> I'm so puzzled. If anyone can help, I'd really be grateful. Thanks. >> >> >> >> > I wonder if you are looking at behavior from a bug I wrestled with last > year: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1212455 > > If so, the bug thread has a nice work-around (Comment #39). > > Although I must say that in my case, I had no experience of playing these > videos (successfully or otherwise) in VLC -- didn't occur to me to test > this. And it does provoke questions about why VLC works fine with these. > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >
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