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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Chromium does not include Google's (Pepper) Flash Player, but there is a google-chrome.deb installer for Ubuntu, at https://www.google.com/chrome. It should automatically add Google's package archive to your Software Sources for updating.
"seems to be a converter as well as a player"? Never heard of that, as far as I'm aware it is just the beta for the next-generation Youtube look. 
You may want to take a look at this Firefox plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ube-all-html5/ which seems to offer a better way to enable Youtube HTML5 than merely opting in.
And here's a link to get you started on backups: Howto: Backup and restore your system!
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Thanks eschwartz. I tried the html 5 add-on. It didn't work.
Ha ha. I typed the above line about twenty minutes ago. I had added the html5 player and tried the video. Same problem. So I Googled how to GET RID OF the add-on. In the process of getting rid of it (and I was baffled why it would not work) I decided to look at the "preferences." Well, (see screenshot) I saw this (it was unchecked) and thought, Why would I want to keep the malfunctioning Adobe Flash? And so I checked it. Voila! Video.
I didn't know this html 5 player existed (
no one suggested it in
any of the forums I asked about this problem: Ubuntu Forum, Superuser Forum, Linux Questions Forum, Ubuntu One Forum), so obviously you must be some sort of genius. LOL
The html 5 player says it only works on Youtube but hell, what videos are not through Youtube. If I have problems with watching certain videos with this I can always have Chrome as my backup. (But I don't anticipate problems--I've already checked out Youtube and a Linux Terminal tutorial video,which is going to be the first thing I watch!
Thanks a lot for the links. Will definitely get started backing stuff up.
Thanks so much!