Unusual video phenomenon in Epiphany/Iceweasel...

[BigTexBri]

Just installed Debian 5.0.4 on an iMac G3 500Mhz allinone and when I went to YouTube to test the video quality the video seems to open over and over, audio starts and then restarts and copies of the video pop up continuously. The only way to kill the video is to shut down the computer. This happens in Epiphany and also in Iceweasel, is this a flash issue? Any one seen anything like this before? It acts like there is a loop in the software that causes it to keep opening the same thing over and over.

[devils casper]

It looks like a Flash problem only. How did you install Flash plug-in?
Post the output of uname -a command here.

[BigTexBri]

I rebooted, signed in as root and typed <uname -a> return was...
Linux debian 2.6.26-2-powerpc #1 Tue Mar 9 23:07:18 UTC 2010 ppc GNU/Linux
and then the command prompt.

I never installed a flash update on this machine, I was actually expecting a prompt to do so but it didn't show up so I took no action. The video frame does look different on this machine than my macMini, it is a very large circle with a play arrow inside, could this indicate an earlier version of flash?

Assuming that flash needs to be updated, where do I find the Linux version of an update file? Is there a archive tool (like stuffit for mac or winzip for windows) that needs to be installed first, that is before trying to install the download?

Thanks in advance for the help.
Brian

[rcgreen]

It looks like you don't have adobe flash, but a free alternative.
Debian does not install any non-free software by default.
Unfortunately, the free alternatives are not really working yet.
You will have to uninstall what you have and get the real
thing.

How to Install Adobe Flash in Debian Etch/Lenny/Sid -- Debian Admin

[BigTexBri]

thanks rcgreen,
I went to the page above, downloaded that keyring but cannot get it to install. the dpkg -i command does not work, what am I doing wrong?

[rcgreen]

I wonder if it is because of your PPC architecture.

[coopstah13]

i would guess it is Adobe - Flash Player 10: System requirements

I'm going to assume that they only provide x86/x86_64 for linux, not PPC, you would need to have MacOS installed to get PPC support by the looks

[BigTexBri]

I was thinking that they had changed the "-i" extension since that post, and the install deal no longer works. Also, I had to download the .deb package in the GUI and it automatically puts it in //desktop/downloads, and I haven't been able to access that in root and I don't see a way to move the file to root or where ever it is that the program "dpkg" needs to run from.

As far as MacOS, the only version that works on this machine is 10.3 and Adobe will not download to it.

The reason I am trying to get Debian running on this machine is that MacOS will not support upgrades or anything else on it's older machines, Linux works like a charm in other areas, just this one little glitch in video playback, which won't be used much but needs to work once in a while.

[coopstah13]

well, unfortunately then you are SOL, you have to use open source flash players which are still vastly inferior