<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu" target="_blank">warlord@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> It seems Adobe flash player on Linux is a bit weird if you have a modern<br>
> nvidia card with NVIDIA driver and the hardware acceleration and libvdpau. It<br>
> basically makes the video blue toned.<br>
><br>
> But! I found the cure just now from here:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-blue" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-blue</a><br>
><br>
> short solution is to cd to where ever the adobe libflashplayer.so is and run:<br>
><br>
> perl -pi.bak -e 's/libvdpau/lixvdpau/g' libflashplayer.so<br>
><br>
> to make it look for a non-existent file.It will make a .bak file "just in<br>
> case". Now either restart (all my zillions of) browser(s) _or_ kill the /usr/<br>
> lib64/xulrunner/plugin-container process and firefox will restart it when it's<br>
> needed. That will force a reload of flash and youtube is no longer blue.<br>
><br>
> :-)<br>
<br>
</div>Unfortunately this will also remove any potential hardware video<br>
speedup, so you're going to be doing video decoding in software. If you<br>
have a lower power system (like an iON or Atom) this will probably make<br>
watching flash video impossible.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sadly true. So smurf pr0n on the low end gear :-) <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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-derek<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
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