I just installed openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 with GNOME 3.4, and finished installing the multimedia packages following the guide. And surprise: Flash Player version is still 11.2.202.238-2.3.1, the one with blue tone in Youtube videos. But it gets better, as there’s no way to go back to 11.1 since it’s not listed in the available versions! The oldest available is 11.2.202.238-1.1.1, which makes no difference, does it? It’s the very same version but different compilation…
Any solution for this returning issue?
Thanks for your help.
And if I enable that html5 trial version, how long does it lasts or what limitations does it have? (Never heard about html5, but looks as if it was a payment service…)
And if I don’t like it, is it reversible? Could I go back to the “normal mode”?
Actually flash plugin for linux is no longer developed by Adobe,and yes that blue tint is so annoying that the only viable solution is html 5!As my understanding,there’s a fix for this with Nvidia new library libvdpau,but this version of driver on openSuse doesn’t have it,the really supported solution is to use Chrome,I don’t like it but what can I do!Cheers!
Marius, i don`t know what GPU you have, but disabling hardware acceleration worked for me under Firefox, Nvidia GeForce 9400GT under Gnome 3.2.
An alternative is using Google Chrome (not Chromium) that has a newer version of flash, that works even with hardware acceleration activated.
As a last resort you can try and change the quality that flash player offers from high to medium or low.
> And out of curiosity, what is hardware acceleration on Youtube videos
> for? Do they really run faster with it or something like that?
They should run at the same speed, obviously, but using features of the video card, in
hardware, and less main cpu. Something is wrong in the flash code and with nvidia cards it
works badly.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Another fix for the blue tint in flash (from the nV News Forums):
Originally Posted by **Plagman** http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/images/buttons/viewpost.gif](http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2518770#post2518770)
*For people running into either the "leaking overlay" or the "blue people" problems, I wrote a patch to libvdpau_trace.so designed to suppress them.
This will cause the resulting trace library to change the VDPAU behavior of any clients that have tracing enabled, so make sure you only enable tracing for the web browser that loads the Flash plugin (eg. for Firefox in Ubuntu, you’d add an “export VDPAU_TRACE=1” line to /usr/lib/firefox-n.n/firefox.sh). Trying to use tracing on any other VDAU client after this has been installed won’t work right as it suppresses all the tracing messages and swaps color channels for some operations. Please make sure to restore a vanilla build of libvdpau_trace.so on your system before filing a VDPAU bug against something else.*
This worked for me. Change the command in the Firefox launcher from “firefox %u” to “export VDPAU_TRACE=1 && firefox %u”.
I have n’t tried to revert back to an older version of flash player yet. But will try soon as I have two pc’s both with Nvidia card and I can’t view flash videos.
Using an older version of flash worked when I was on suse 12.1 My other pc’s work but have intel or Ati cards.
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