I have been very pleased with Linux Mint 13 on my system, except for one
thing... I cannot play most Youtube videos. I get a message âAn error
has occurred. Please try again later.â
It doesnt bother me too much; I am not really into watching videos, but
there are more and more instructional videos becoming available, and I
sure wish this feature will work.
I have tried the various suggestions found on web sites (download Flash,
remove restrictions, etc).
A web search for solutions to my problem gave me hope, promised to show
me how to configure my computer and make the problem go away. Clicking
on the link brought me to a Youtube video. Duh? The guy who produced
that video should be working in the WhiteHouse.
So ... any of your Minters have any suggestions for me?
RBerglund
I have two different computers with Mint with Mate and both run
You tube videos.
Do you have the Mate version of Mint?
Sounds like a codec problem.
What kind of computer and video card do you have?
If it is a real old computer it might be the video card.
Go here.
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Paul Lamar
I found the problem with my Asus laptop and the video driver issues- I
like
the Cinnamon desktop and have used it for a while. The 12. and 13 Ubuntu
kernels when coupled with Cinnamon have a problem with the ATI Radeon
drivers and cards. I am OK as long as I use Mate or another desktop, if I
run Cinnamon for any length of time or open a video editor and CRASH- the
screen gets multicolored dots and stripes all over it. Most times I
can get
to terminal and reboot, log out doesn't work.
FYI.
Kevin Alderman
Kevin,
I had all sorts of problem with video drivers included with Linux on ATi
and nVidia Chips. Especially older distribution like Mint 13. Try using the
ATI driver from AMD (bought ATI a while back). I think 13 is 32 bit so
choose the 32 bit one.
Link to AMD driver:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx.
Henry Nee
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