The Grey Flash Box Of Doom

So yet another interesting Flash error... It seems that I have a flash player that works sometimes, and greys out other time. For example, I can watch youtube with no issues. But Hulu.com just greys out. The video is playing (I know this because I can hear the audio), but nothing is showing up. This seems to be pointing to some kind of a render issue perhaps?

Firefox 2.0.0.14 (64bit), Flash 9.0.124.0, GTK2 and -32 extensions (latest version)

Apparently Ubuntu 8.04 isn't having this issue, so i'm wondering what is going on here that's different. It's not just a KDE vs. Gnome thing on the surface (i'm running in gnome right now, and was in KDE earlier). It doesn't appear to be a multiple flash issue, I can open 10+ youtube flash videos and run them all with no crashing. So i'm starting to think that it's something to do with hulu's layering/coding? Advanced code that's just not carrying over correctly in GTK maybe?

Any ideas?

Welcome to the forum!

I am not on my openSUSE box right now, but I just confirmed that hulu.com does play in Linux Mint 5 Beta 2 running GNOME and using Firefox 3.0 RC 1. I just wanted to share my observation with you.

In your openSUSE machine, have you installed the Packman multimedia codecs? That is the first thing I would check - especially for updates. Good luck.