Youtube Blues: a graphics mystery [solved for now]

[davey]

Here's one I can't figure out at all:

When I play Youtube Flash videos, all the faces are bright blue. Near as I can tell, this is not a Flash thing, the hardware, a setting, or anything else I can think of. Here's why:

This only happens with Youtube Flash. Not with Youtube video that's not Flash, and not with Flash video that's not from Youtube.

It only happens in PCLOS (KDE), not Bodhi (E17) (the only alternative I've tried). So maybe some kind of KDE thing?

It happens with Firefox and Chrome, so it's not the browser.

I can't begin to imagine what's so different about Flash video coming from Youtube, but nowhere else. It happens whether I go directly to Youtube or play an embedded video on some other site. The video appears normal at the beginning, before hitting the "play" button, then goes all blue once it starts running.

Any thoughts?

[T6]

this is a old known problem that if i remember correctly required a video driver update

also if i remember correctly you can open any video on youtube and while watching it, right click, configuration and uncheck hardware acceleration

close web browser and open again to verify if it worked

[Bald Brick]

Once more:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,109578.msg935964.html#msg935964
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105763.0.html
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105769.0/topicseen.html
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105245.0.html
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105693.0.html
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,105442.0.html

[DeBaas]

WoHo and again from Synaptic install:
flash-player-plugin11.1
It's not as safe as.................
Read the other topics please.
It's a Flash/nVidia clash.

[parnote]

I'm not sure if this will help, but I found this online ...


How to Fix Wrong Youtube Tint

Introduction
After a recent U--ntu update Youtube has tinted the sky orange and people blue. This article will help resolve this issue.

Solution
If you do not have the directory “/etc/adobe” use the following command in the terminal

sudo mkdir /etc/adobe/

I like to use the terminal text editor but you can use what ever one you like.

sudo nano /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

Add the following lines

EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
OverrideGPUValidation=true

Press CTRL+X and enter to save the file.
When you restart your browser the issue will be resolved.

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Found here: http://blog.mpshouse.com/?p=800
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I haven't tried this (I haven't had this problem with Flash videos) ... but, with adaptation to how things are done in PCLinuxOS (since PCLinuxOS doesn't use "sudo"), maybe this will help someone.

[T6]

that is the hard way to disable hardware acceleration i described in the first place afik

[ruel24]

Isn't there an updated driver available from nVidia that remedies the problem? Can't we get that in the repo?

[menotu]

Isn't there an updated driver available from nVidia that remedies the problem? Can't we get that in the repo?

VIDIA Releases Updated VDPAU LIbrary

NVIDIA on Tuesday released the open-source libvdpau 0.5 library for their Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix.

Before getting too excited, the new libvdpau 0.5 release isn't worth getting excited over unless you happen to use Adobe Flash a lot on Linux and use it for video playback over VDPAU. The new version simply works around two bugs in the Adobe Flash Player.

One fix is to workaround the Flash blob passing color arguments to a function in an incorrect order, which can lead to some Flash videos having a bluish tint. The other fix is for colors bleeding through to other windows. Lastly, there's a small memory leak fix when unloading libvdpau.

www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,108857.0.html

[davey]

Thanks all -- the hardware acceleration disabling seems to have done the trick. But I'm still looking forward to the libvdpau new release showing up in the repos.

Still can't understand why this problem would only show up in Youtube Flash videos but not on Youtube videos not using Flash, and not on Flash videos that are not from Youtube,  and only on PCLOS (or at least not on Bodhi). Whatever, it will be a happy day when Flash goes away from the Web entirely.

[ruel24]

What it boils down to, is once again, Adobe ships crappy software. When will people learn that monopolies have horrible products?

[T6]

in this particular case i am not sure if it is nvidia fault or adobe fault, or both

[DeBaas]

and only on PCLOS (or at least not on

@davey
Different versions of flash are having different results.
Problems arise also in other distro's, look at the Fora
As far as I know the last good working (but with security risc) version is 11.1
Alternate install, copying the older 11.1 libflashplayer.so over the now latest version
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4043596/libflashplayer.so.rar

[DeBaas]

Tested:

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/libvdpau1-0.5-6.mga3.i586.rpm

As root in terminal:
rpm -Uvh libvdpau1-0.5-6.mga3.i586.rpm

on my PCLos updated.
No more smurfs.
No need for flash-player-plugin11.1 anymore

Check on older PCLos rigs tomorrow.
Sleep time for now.

Ed

[JohnW_57]

Tested:

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/libvdpau1-0.5-4.mga3.i586.rpm

As root in terminal:
rpm -U libvdpau1-0.5-4.mga3.i586.rpm

on my PCLos updated.
No more smurfs.
No need for flash-player-plugin11.1 anymore

Check on older PCLos rigs tomorrow.
Sleep time for now.

Ed

Updated vdpau package is in testing at this moment!

JohnW

[Just17]

Tested:

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/libvdpau1-0.5-4.mga3.i586.rpm

As root in terminal:
rpm -U libvdpau1-0.5-4.mga3.i586.rpm

on my PCLos updated.
No more smurfs.
No need for flash-player-plugin11.1 anymore

Check on older PCLos rigs tomorrow.
Sleep time for now.

Ed

Updated vdpau package is in testing at this moment!

JohnW

I haven't seen it yet ....