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#1 2012-04-02 13:22:00

kazuya
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Registered: 2011-01-11
Posts: 88

Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

As a warning to other beginning or intermediate users like myself:
If you find flashplayer videos starting to look wierd with blue colors after a recent update, this may be a workaround:
su
pacman -R vdpau

as root and then voila restart browser and videos.
the vdpau negatively affects flashplayer at least on my 64bit archbang. I saw this same issue on an Ubuntu-based OS, PearOS 4 over the weekend. It likely affects many distros.

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#2 2012-04-02 14:25:47

pablokal
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Re: Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

Thanks for sharing this and your other post today.

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#3 2012-04-02 21:27:55

mike4ca
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From: Iowa, USA
Registered: 2011-10-17
Posts: 429

Re: Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

kazuya, do you have a Nvidia graphics card?  VDPAU is for newer Nvidia gpu's and some S3 Graphics.  I wanted to double check that you were using Nvidia that way others will be able to gage whether it will help them or not.

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#4 2012-04-03 04:31:07

pablokal
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Re: Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

Mike is right; this info is only valuable if we know which videocard and which driver you are using.

#lspci -vnn

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#5 2012-05-07 19:40:22

kazuya
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Registered: 2011-01-11
Posts: 88

Re: Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

sorry for the late reply. I am running a 9500M Geforce  videocard.

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#6 2012-05-08 11:46:48

Mitfree
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Registered: 2012-02-22
Posts: 11

Re: Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

Thank you kazuya. I get blue faces also, (GeForce GTX 460, 64bit archbang). I'm curious; does your trick fix the issue with flash video's bleeding onto other webpages?

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#7 2012-05-09 13:12:53

kazuya
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Registered: 2011-01-11
Posts: 88

Re: Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

I shall recreate the issue and post better solution.

I had to login as root in terminal by doing     su
pacman -Rdd vdpau
or
pacman -Rdd libvdpau

pacman -S flashplugin

leafpad /etc/adobe.. (NOT SURE exact link will be update when I get home)
then insert a # in the second comment or line in the file.
#HW Enable xxxx(NOT SURE)

restart browser (midori in my case or firefox).

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#8 2012-05-10 06:45:10

scjet
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From: Windsor, Canada
Registered: 2010-12-01
Posts: 749

Re: Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

Yep, thanks @kazuya
I have the same problem with my -> GeForce 450, and AB! 64-bit.
I also tried this workaraound, at the bottom of this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
but that did NOT work for me.

Apparently, it's " ... a bug with Adobe's flashplayer and youtube videos...." according to the arch-wiki.
Unfortunately the best fix right now is as kazuya mentioned, pacman -R libvdpau.

Yet another reason I wish adobe and youtube proprietary crap would go away, and instead, we all just use an opensource app/protocol like "html5" !?  wink

Last edited by scjet (2012-05-10 06:46:17)

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#9 2012-05-10 08:36:45

Mr Green
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Registered: 2010-11-07
Posts: 3,751

Re: Alert on Youtube flashplayer videos with blue colors

Take a look at lightspark or gnash, started trying to view videos on you tube in webm format....

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