MisterWebNet

I was having trouble seeing videos in Firefox. I'm on Ubuntu 9.10, videos on most sites played (e.g. YouTube) but videos in Break.com failed to play - I couldn't even see the video player.

In true awkward style I will tell you first what didn't work. After going through Synaptic package manager (System->Administration->Synaptic) and installing all the flash files I could (Search for flash), it still didn't work. I then tried searching in Synaptic for 'gstreamer' and installed all the plugins - good (installed already), bad and ugly. Videos still refused to show.

Then after reading one forum post to download and install adobe flash again, realised I could have a whole bunch of plugins conflicting with each other. So remove flash plugins and install just the one (adobe):

sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla mozilla-plugin-gnash

then install only one:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Presto the videos worked!