Jb wrote:
> Any advice on what needs to change to make the videos show up
> first time? Thanks in advance.

Firstly, get rid of Gnash.

Secondly, look through the group for the thread on "ubuntu studio flash
problems". Only a few days ago, a couple of us describe how to install
the latest flash the direct way.

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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:55:11 +0000, Jb wrote:

> I'm 4 day into Ubuntu and Linux and loving it, very smooth transition. I
> was already a Firefox user so that was easy. Two things I'm running into
> first at cnn.com the videos timeout and I get this message "The video
> timed out attempting to play. Please ensure that you do not have any
> Flash Blocking plugins active." I tried to install Adobe 9 Flash but in
> watching the details on install it failed but I couldn't see why. 2nd
> video issue is when I go to www.filecabi.net I get a black screen trying
> to show video through trial and error I found if I right-click and quit
> Gnash I can get the video to show. I have an Nvidia FX video card is
> that matters. Any advice on what needs to change to make the videos show
> up first time? Thanks in advance.


The fix here did the trick:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636397