[ale] stupid flash player is BLUE!

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>

Sadly true. So smurf pr0n on the low end gear :-)

>
> -derek
>
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