I have a slight problem in openSUSE 13.2

I have recently installed openSUSE to see how it was, and it has been amazing thus far, I would have to say it's my favourite flavour! However, I have been having problems with the youtube player in every web browser I get. I can never choose any quality over 360p! And in pale moon (my preferred browser) flash wont install for whatever reason. I would appreciate any help I can get here! Thank you all in advance! -Cody

 

You're lacking some codecs, you got the gstreamer plugins installed?

http://software.opensuse.org/package/gstreamer

How did you install flash? From here?

http://software.opensuse.org/package/flash-player

I have not installed the gstreamer plugins, thank you! I installed it from the adobe website, I got the .rpm package and installed it that way. But, hopefully it will work now that I installed it with your link! I am obviously new to openSUSE, I keep forgetting its not the same as mint, but I do enjoy openSUSE way more. Thank you for your help sir, im going to reboot and see if everything has worked!

 

Okay, so I installed both of those things, and I have rebooted. Nothing has changed sadly, youtube is still locked at 360p, and flash says its not installed, even on this site it says that I need flash to display some things.

 

Flash should already be in the main repos so YaST should find it.

The gstreamer packages are only needed if you want to play videos in VLC.

Being locked at 360p usually means that flash is indeed not installed as it's using html5 instead. I don't know much about pale moon but if it's firefox based try editing about:config

media.mediasource.enabled=true

should at least give you more resolution options.

Cheers!

Well, I moved over to firefox to see if it changed anything there and it did! Flash seems to work, but for some reason now the max res is 720? I dont know, I am going to turn off the option to use html5 when possible to see if that fixes it. Thanks for the help guys.

You can watch 720p vids in firefox with HTML5 in youtube, no flash needed (HD in chromium), so it might be that you're still lacking the plugin.

 

You should absolutely not need flash for 95% of youtube videos. Check you have html5 enabled https://www.youtube.com/html5

>Being locked at 360p usually means that flash is indeed not installed as it's using html5 instead.

firefox based browsers dont support all the codecs youtube uses for html5 but for the ones it does, it supports any resolution the video has been uploaded in. html5 videos arent locked at 360p