Hello, I've recently noticed that whenever I watch a YouTube video, the blue and red channels are flipped e.g. I watch a video on the Blue Screen of Death and the screen in the video is red. It does not occur in other media players, e.g. The Daily Show is still mostly blue and the Colbert Report is still mostly red.

My graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS, and my driver version is 295.40-2.fc16, installed from the rpmfusion-nonfree repository. My kernel version is 3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64. I tried the driver from NVIDIA's website, and that produced the same symptoms. I am using the Xfce 4.8 Desktop Environment. I am using Firefox version 11.0, and Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 (from Adobe's website).

Does anyone know why this blue and red channel flip is happening? Does anyone know how I can fix it? Thanks in advance.

Apparently, its because of the Flash player, and how YouTube is serving up things. You can 'fix' it by right-clicking in the video, and under Settings, un-check the "Enable hardware acceleration" option. You'll chew a few more CPU cycles playing a video, but it'll at least look right.

I remember reading something about it, but can't remember the particulars. Sorry.

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Thank you, that did the trick

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