64bit flash glibc memcpy and stuttering playback

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I am now getting a very stuttering playback of youtube videos with Adobe flash on 64 bit Suse 12.1 and I understand that it is a combination of changes to glibc with regard to memcpy and the way that the odd Adobe use overlapping buffers with memcpy in their flash implementation that causes this. I understand that some other distributions distribute an .so file that can be used with LD_PRELOAD to provide a more conventional version of memcpy that does not suffer with this issue.

Any chance of sorting this for users of Suse. I do realise that many videos on Youtube do render perfectly well with Gnash but some of the things like TV series insist on Adobe Flash.

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The recent flash update is buggy and many have rolled back to the previous flash 11.1
or
Disabled Hardware Acceleration in the flash settings

Although you are raising a issue which is a little different to those affecting most of us

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I may be being naive but I suspected it related to this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c31 but perhaps that is long under the bridge.

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I’d just be glad to see the back of flash altogether.

You didn’t report as to the current version of flash you are using (in connection with the comments I made)

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I was using the 11.2.202.228-12.1 I have now found and gone back to 11.1.102.62-7.1 and it now works. With regard to Flash, I am just pleased not to be developing in it, what a horrid IDE.

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Good to know.