It’s natural to happen that the online video cannot be displayed on Ubuntu due to the lack of adobe flash player. And as default, there is not available installation candidate by simply running as follows,
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
But actually, it’s because Ubuntu doesn’t turn on the permission of software package from canonical partner as default. So turn on it by following the instruction in the link below:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/14629/how-do-i-enable-the-partner-repository
Then re-run the first command to install adobe flash player.