[ale] stupid flash player is BLUE!

[Jim Kinney]

Ewww! Doc is scary and blue.
On Oct 22, 2013 6:10 PM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> What, you got something against the Smurfs???
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems Adobe flash player on Linux is a bit weird if you have a modern
>> nvidia card with NVIDIA driver and the hardware acceleration and libvdpau.
>> It basically makes the video blue toned.
>>
>> But! I found the cure just now from here:
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-blue
>>
>> short solution is to cd to where ever the adobe libflashplayer.so is and
>> run:
>>
>> perl -pi.bak -e 's/libvdpau/lixvdpau/g' libflashplayer.so
>>
>> to make it look for a non-existent file.It will make a .bak file "just in
>> case". Now either restart (all my zillions of) browser(s) _or_ kill the
>> /usr/lib64/xulrunner/plugin-container process and firefox will restart it
>> when it's needed. That will force a reload of flash and youtube is no
>> longer blue.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> --
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>> James P. Kinney III
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