[ale] stupid flash player is BLUE!

[Derek Atkins]

Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> :-)

Unfortunately this will also remove any potential hardware video
speedup, so you're going to be doing video decoding in software.  If you
have a lower power system (like an iON or Atom) this will probably make
watching flash video impossible.

-derek

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