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Fresh installation of Linux/Ubuntu 10.10 and Nvidia 9300GS driver and
Flash Player 11.2.202.235, all 64bits and all working fine except one thing: Some colors in (youtube) Flash Videos are pale. Take a look at sample screenshot
Colors become pale only in video mode, not in picture mode and not in HTML5 videos. It cannot be browser-specific either, colors are pale both on firefox 13.0 and Opera (both are 64bit)
And lastly, when a Flash video is played in embedded mode (ie from another website) the colors are true but I have tested it only for Youtube videos embedded in Facebook which are quite small in size.
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That's the well-known NVIDIA+Youtube Flash "blue people" problem.
Only way I know to fix it is turn off hardware acceleration by right clicking the video and going to the options dialogue.
You're welcome. Let's hope they fix Flash at some point.
Highly unlikely with the standalone versions of flash now - i think were at the end, or near the end of the road with updates from adobe. Lets all stand and applaud adobe for their wonderful support to the Linux community...
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Highly unlikely with the standalone versions of flash now - i think were at the end, or near the end of the road with updates from adobe. Lets all stand and applaud adobe for their wonderful support to the Linux community...
sarcasm = off
I'm not saying you're wrong but as I understand it it's the last version of stand alone Flash for Linux but it will still receive bugfixes. If it is a straightforward bug in Flash then there's nothing to stop them fixing it in the next round of bugfixes.
As for the future of Flash I'll be sad to have to dump Firefox for video in favour of Chromium.
Hard to believe we've got to 2012 and having no Flash still means not being able to watch so much video.
It might be painful initially, but if it helps to kill Flash faster, I'm all for it.
If Flash goes on Linux I'll have to follow. Unless something magical happens and media companies stop insisting on DRM for streamed media.
Hopefully Chromium will include Flash, don't really want to change to Chrome instead.
If Flash goes on Linux I'll have to follow. Unless something magical happens and media companies stop insisting on DRM for streamed media.
Hopefully Chromium will include Flash, don't really want to change to Chrome instead.
Well no flash player on my main pc here now. My flash requirements aren't that great anyway, Youtube and a podcast or two so, Lightspark is what I'm using here. It isn't perfect but it's free and removes the need for a non-free app, which is always good
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Originally Posted by nixblog
Well no flash player on my main pc here now. My flash requirements aren't that great anyway, Youtube and a podcast or two so, Lightspark is what I'm using here. It isn't perfect but it's free and removes the need for a non-free app, which is always good
Youtube does use WebM or h.264 and whilst the latter is patent encumbered it is gratis.
For some reason though Firefox won't play HTML5 videos for me. That aside there is no way people like the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and a bunch of other people can use HTML5 to stream because there's no DRM and their programme makers insist on that.
I don't know what has happened but Youtube videos have lost their Smurf-ness for me. I've only just noticed today but the last NVIDIA updates in my apt history were on 22nd.
For some reason though Firefox won't play HTML5 videos for me. That aside there is no way people like the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and a bunch of other people can use HTML5 to stream because there's no DRM and their programme makers insist on that.
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