Ubuntu 9.04: No Sound with Flash Videos
Before upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, you should know that users are reporting that they are unable to hear sound while watching flash video. And it has been reported as a bug on launchpad.
After I upgraded to jaunty jackalope, I tried to watch a video on youtube but there was no audio. When I played an mp3 file I could hear it okay.
I tried to follow a ubuntu geek tutorial to fix the problem but it did not work for me. You have to install about a dozen packages in the synaptic manager and change sound settings.
Possible Solution
1. Uninstall flash through Applications> Add/Remove. I removed Macromedia Flash plugin.
Now you will manually install Flash. The following is based on an article from howtogeek.
2. Download Flash Player directly from Adobe’s website. Choose .tar.gz for Linux.
Updated instructions from the adobe website.
3. After the file downloads, right click it and Extract Here.
4. Open the folder named install_flash_player_10_linux. Go to Edit> Preferences. Under the Behavior tab, select Ask Each Time under the Executuble Text File heading. Then Close.
5. Make sure Firefox is closed and double click on flashplayer-installer. Choose Run in Terminal.
6. Follow the instructions in the terminal window. Installation is complete.
When you go to this flash player page, it should show that the latest version 10,0,22,87 is installed.
Now I can hear audio while playing flash videos. I hope it works for you.
Rather than installing manually, I solved this in 9.04 by using Synaptic to uninstall the 2 already installed flash packages: flashplugin-nonfree and flashplugin-installer.
After removing those I installed the package adobe-flashplugin (which has the little Ubuntu symbol next to it). I restarted Firefox, and all was good.
Kyle Dickerson
May 1, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I tried to run flash installer in terminal with sudo, and this is what it tell’s me:
ERROR: Your architecture, \’x86_64\’, is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Player installer.
Kyle: Did you add some other repository to get that adobe-flashplugin-package ? I can’t find it through synaptics package manager in standard 9.04.
Kino
May 7, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Thanks, I’ve tried other fixes, and this is the only one that worked! And much easier to follow, too.
Lisa
May 18, 2009 at 10:23 am
thx. had the same problem after upgrading to ubuntu 9.04. your method worked great.
someguy
May 27, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Didn’t work for me ;(
Still no sound. The version of flash is the same.
nikorules
June 17, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Nice one!
Worked perfectly, and somehow even fixed my issue with jerky full screen video.
Flunk
July 5, 2009 at 1:16 pm
The tar.gz flash 10 on Adobe’s site does not have an installer. It only has the .so file. What gives?
mike
October 6, 2009 at 12:33 pm
This didn’t work for me, at first. After looking in the “geek tutorial”, I poked around in System->Preferences->Sound. In the Devices tab, for Sound Playback there were several choices. OSS (not Autodetect) is now working. Maybe this was my problem in the first place. My machine is a Thinkpad T42p.
Karl
July 26, 2009 at 6:52 am
thank Gosh , thank you too 🙂
it worked and was easy. just a note: i had to restart after that before it worked
daniel
July 26, 2009 at 1:56 pm
didn’t do anything for me, still no sound D:. video looks pretty good though.
stevo
July 28, 2009 at 8:17 pm
OMG thank you! i’ve been working on this all morning trying to get my sound back after updating ubuntu last night.
THANK YOU!
mike
July 29, 2009 at 12:16 pm
4. Open the folder named install_flash_player_10_linux. Go to Edit> Preferences. Under the Behavior tab, select Ask Each Time under the Executuble Text File heading. Then Close.
There is no Preferences option when I try to open folder install_flash_player_10_linux
chris vansice
August 20, 2009 at 8:55 am
it doesn’t work, there is no file flashplayer-installer after extracting the downloaded tar.gz file from adobe site
ivan
September 5, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Hey guys, when I save the file, and extract it, i get the libflashplayer.so and so I open the linux folder, but when I go to edit, i dont see preferences, is there anything else I could do?
Tony Huynh
January 24, 2010 at 5:31 pm
simple to install and worked.
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