flash 11.2 w/ nvidia card colors swapped [Solved] YMMV...

[anomaly65]

Hi all,

some of you may have noticed (I have three machines with identical behavior) where the newest release of flash plays youtube, etc, videos with red/blue colors apparently swapped. ugly is a kind word for the appearance.

It seems (after searching a bit) that there's a mix of HW and software rendering/decoding in the 11.2 release of flash when using an nvidia card. This seems to fix it, by setting both to hardware:

To get hw video decoding I had to add this line into /etc/adobe/mms.cfg with

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EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1


restart the browser, and people no longer look quite so "blue" and appear a bit more human.

hope this helps!
andy

[bernd_b]

Thanks very much.

Blue tint/ blue colour fault is gone !

[anomaly65]

I first thought it was one machine, then when all three running sabayon did the same....I searched a lot.

So, no, it wasn't an "Avatar" movie ad theme in linux/flash

Some folks (the internet knows all right???) mention that slightly older nvidia drivers do not have this problem and/or you may need to switch to software rendering/accel for flash. (seems to be the thing with pre 9xxx nvidia cards; e.g. 6x, 7x, 8x).

reports also mention this doesn't happen with the open source driver.

[fthpl]

thanks a lot, it's working

[anomaly65]

glad to be of some help

seems to work on machines > 8400 nvidia cards.

I have friend with a "refuses to die" machine with a 6800GT which this solution doesn't work (it swapped colors about the same time = same driver issue....). For that card, this fix does work "ok" in most cases. join the youtube html5 video trial. vimeo I believe has something similar. Said machine (Athlon 4800X2, 4G ram) is just fine running sabayon, but sluggish running a more commonly used/commercial OS....

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Notes
Fullscreen support is partially implemented. Pressing the fullscreen button will expand the player to fill your browser. If your browser supports a fullscreen option, you can then use that to truly fill the screen
If you want to find videos with WebM formats available, you can use the Advanced Search options to look for them (or just add &webm=1 to any search URL)
Additional Restrictions (we are working on these!)
Videos with ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player)
On Firefox and Opera, only videos with WebM transcodes will play in HTML5
If you've opted in to other testtube experiments, you may not get the HTML5 player (Feather is supported, though)

[greendave8]

Thanks Fitzcarraldo,
I forgot how to edit the file..... could you remind me please... I seem to remember sudo.... Its a long time since I had to edit a config file....

Cheers

gd8

[Fitzcarraldo]

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$ su
Password:
# nano /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
# exit
exit
$

[greendave8]

Thanks for the speedy reply, however I am not getting anywhere with this. It seems I have now created more cfg files in the adobe folder in etc. I added the line, but exiting wasn't right. Also How do I delete the "extra" files I have inadverdantly created?

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#
# /etc/adobe/mms.cfg: Adobe Flash privacy and security settings
#
# For more details on the meaning of most of these options, please visit:
# http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide.html
#

# Lets you prevent users from designating any files on the local file system as
# trusted
#  0 = Not Allowed, 1 = Allowed (default)
#AllowUserLocalTrust = 1

# Lets you specify a hard limit on the amount of local storage that Flash Player
# uses for the storage of common Flash components
#  Size in megabytes (default is 20), 0 = Component storage disabled
#AssetCacheSize = 20

# Lets you prevent Flash Player from automatically checkingfor and installing
# updated versions
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
AutoUpdateDisable = 1

# Lets you specify how often to check for an updated version of Flash Player
#  Number of days, 0 = Every startup
# There is no default value, which falls back to the user's setting (30 days by
# default)
#AutoUpdateInterval =

# Lets you prevent SWF files from accessing webcams or microphones
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
#AVHardwareDisable = 0

# Lets you prevent information on installed fonts from being displayed
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
#DisableDeviceFontEnumeration = 0

# Lets you prevent networking or file system access if any kind
#  Set to the executable filename, default is empty
#DisableNetworkAndFilesystemInHostApp =

# Lets you prevent native code applications that are digitally signed and
# delivered by Adobe from being downloaded
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
#DisableProductDownload = 0

# Lets you enable or disable the use of the Socket.connect() and
# XMLSocket.connect() methods
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
#DisableSockets = 0

# Lets you create a whitelist of servers to which socket connections are allowed
#  Set to hostname or IP address.  This can be specified multiple times in this
#  file to allow more than one host, and only takes effect if DisableSockets
#  (above) is set to 1.
#EnableSocketsTo = localhost.localdomain
#EnableSocketsTo = 127.0.0.1

# Lets you prevent the ActionScript FileReference API from performing file
# downloads
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
#FileDownloadDisable = 0

# Lets you prevent the ActionScript FileReference API from prerforming file
# uploads
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
#FileUploadDisable = 0

# Lets you disable SWF files playing via a browser plug-in from being displayed
# in full-screen mode
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
#FullScreenDisable = 0

# Lets you specify whether SWF files produced for Flash Player 6 and earlier can
# execute an operation that has been restricted in a newer version of Flash
# Player
#  0 = Deny, 1 = Allow
# There is no default value, which falls back to the user's setting (Defaults to
# "Ask"
#LegacyDomainMatching =

# Lets you specify how Flash Player should determine whether to execute certain
# local SWF files that were originally produced for Flash Player 7 and earlier
#  0 = Deny, 1 = Allow
# There is no default value, which falls back to the user's setting
#LocalFileLegacyAction =

# Lets you prevent local SWF files from having read access to files on local
# drive
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
#LocalFileReadDisable = 0


# Lets you specify a hard limit on the amout of local storage that Flash Player
# uses (per domain) for persistent shared objects
#  1 = no storage, 2 = 10KB, 3 = 100KB, 4 = 1MB, 5 = 10MB,
#  6 = User specified (default)
# If the user does not specify a limit, the default is 100KB.
#LocalStorageLimit = 6

# Lets you override GPU validation checks to force hardware acceleration
# Warning: This may make your player (more) unstable!
#  0 = Check GPU (default), 1 = Skip checks
# More details:

# http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/08/secrets_of_the_mmscfg_file_1.html
#OverrideGPUValidation = 0

# Lets you specify whether third-party SWF files can read and write locally
# persistent shared objects
#  0 = disabled, 1 = enabled
# There is no default value, which falls back to the user's setting
#ThirdPartyStorage =

# Lets you disable "Windowless" mode, which may cause crashes in firefox
# version 3.01 and earlier.
#  0 = Not Disabled (default), 1 = Disabled
# More details:
# http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/08/windowless_mode_fix.html
#WindowlessDisable = 0
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
exit
exit
x
x



[Fitzcarraldo]

1. Use the nano editor to open the file again.
2. Use the down arrow key on the keyboard to move to the end of the file.
3. Use the Backspace (often a left-pointing arrow) key to delete the unnecessary characters you added.
4. As per the instructions in the menu at the bottom of the window, press Ctrl-X to exit and then "y" (without the quotes) to confirm you want to save the file.

[greendave8]

Thank you Fitz,

You solved it for me!!! You are a great teacher, and your instruction on using "nano" is excellent. I thank you....

All is well on youtube again.....

Cheers
gd8