Adobe Flash Plugin vs 64bit Linux Distro

I cant play flash videos on Linux Mint 10 64bit. Don't know about other Linux users but I am really really frustrated with the problem , I cant view youtube videos mainly which i do view quiet frequently.

I asked folks at mint irc channel #linuxmint-help but everyone kept giving me the same advice i had already tried many times.

• Install mint-flasplugin-x64 via package manager.
• Install flash-plugin-nonfree , something like that one.
• Tried with Gnash plugin.
• And yes install adobe flash player. I tried with 32 bit versions and also beta 64 bit plugins for linux
• Manually placed libflashplayer.so file in google chrome, mozilla firefox 6.
• Minitube app didn't work either.
• Tried with few addons for firefox that did the same thing. But still no luck

Then one trick worked. I installed this Flash Video Replacer addon for Firefox. I changed the settings to load video in other standalone video player, Totem. This is really cool, now i can play high quality videos in full screen on totem without the lagging and hanging of flash plugins.

I just hope HTML5 comes over killing Flash, It Sucks!


Update: I enabled HTML5 videos on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/html5 Much Better :)