SOLVED: Anyone seen this? Flash acting up.

[Runaway1956]

I click on a news feed, and it turns out to have a video. The video plays - I can HEAR THE AUDIO - but there is only a black box where the video should be.

Right now, I'm just throwing this out there. I just got out of bed a little while ago, gotta head off to work shortly. Tomorrow, I'll check back here, see if anyone knows what is going on. If not, then I'll start collecting the information needed to figure out what is happening.

guy@sparky:~$ uname -a
Linux sparky 4.0-2.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Debian 4.0-7 (2015-05-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@sparky:/home/guy# inxi
CPU~Dual core AMD Opteron 165 (-MCP-) clocked at 1808 Mhz Kernel~4.0-2.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 Up~ Mem~1368.6/3139.4MB HDD~560.1GB(55.4% used) Procs~170 Client~Shell inxi~2.1.28

I have flashplugin-nonfree and flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound both installed from the Jessie repositories.

Time flies - I gotta get out of here . . . Thanks in advance!


root@sparky:/home/guy# inxi -Fz
System: Host: sparky Kernel: 4.0-2.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: Enlightenment 0.19.99.19943 Distro: Sparky 4 Tyche
Machine: Mobo: Winfast model: NF4UK8AA
Bios: Phoenix v: 6.00 PG date: 10/19/2005
CPU: Dual core AMD Opteron 165 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
Clock Speeds: 1: 1808 MHz 2: 1808 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti]
Display Server: X.org 1.17.1 driver: nvidia
tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA GF116 High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel
Card-2 Plantronics driver: USB Audio
Sound: ALSA v: k4.0-2.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8187 Wireless Adapter driver: rtl8187
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 560.1GB (55.4% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: MKNSSDCR240GB size: 240.1GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD3200AUDX size: 320.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 79G used: 8.1G (11%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: /home size: 137G used: 11G (9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: swap-1 size: 11.21GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb1
ID-4: swap-2 size: 4.91GB used: 0.01GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 59C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 167 Uptime: Memory: 791.2/3139.4MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28

[Runaway1956]

Well now - I'm home again. Example of a video that doesn't show video - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05 ... latestnews

1. I've reinstalled Adobe flash - no joy.

2. Checked to see if Firefox plays it normally - that does work as expected.

Googled the problem, and no real joy - found a discussion about cyanogen mods, where this problem occurs with a specific version of Flash. Seems a lot more people have problems with no sound, than have problems with no video.

Add ons? Let me try changing my themes, maybe one of those is doing it.

[Runaway1956]

User styles.

https://userstyles.org/styles/13864/bla ... ompanion-i

Apparently, the "dark background" just covers up the video - ON SOME SITES. Youtube videos play just fine with the userstyle disabled.

Well - problem solved.