Video on Firefox looks like a negative

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Hi,

I have a brand new SUSE 13.1, Firefox for open SUSE 25.0, ADOBE Flash Player 11.2.202.327, Shock-wave 11.2 R202. It is loaded on an HP Pavilion ZE2000 laptop. When I view a video in Firefox, the display is like a negative.

The video driver on the laptop is the ‘latest’. Graphics driver 8252/82855 GM/GME Graphics controller driver: V 16 14.10.3856 A, 10.63M.

This of course is an OLD laptop that I would like extend it’s working life by using SUSE. So far I am very impressed with the OS. It was easy to install and I even got my networked HP printer recognized and working!

I believe all the necessary updates are applied: SUSE, Firefox, ADOBE etc.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

“New to open” - Jim Aldinger

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Looks like I need to disable hardware acceleration in Adobe Flash Player settings.

BUT, When I select settings, the Display setting in the Adobe Flash Player settings box comes up in the negative video area and I can’t deselect 'Enable hardware acceleration.

Anyone???

Jim

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Hi,

well I can’t say much about that but have you tried watching videos with [g]-chrome?
It comes with a build in player for flash.

Or can you watch videos in another player and it is probably a HTML5 <video> tag issue?

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Thanks for your response. I haven’t tried Chrome. All videos are ‘messed up’, negative display.

I am still ‘digging’ .

Thanks again.

Jim

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Chrome works like a champ!!

It’s a problem with firefox and the version of Adobe!

Thanks for the pointer!

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There was and probably still is an issue with the flash-plugin and Nvidia. You can get around this issue on youtube by using the html5 version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=(http://www.youtube.com/html5)

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[QUOTE=knightron;2607516]There was and probably still is an issue with the flash-plugin and Nvidia. You can get around this issue on youtube by using the html5 version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Or disabling hardware acceleration should help as well.
Right-click on a flash video and choose settings.

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Well, I am back in the negative display problem. This time it’s Google Chrome. Google Chrome has been working GREAT for the past few months. Then there most have been an update that screwed it up royally. Google chrome is unusable, the entire screen is a ‘negative’.

Firefox is better but any video displays as a negative. (same problem I started with!)

I have tried disable hardware acceleration, no help.

Anyone else have this problem? I have sent trouble report to chrome but heard nothing.

Jim

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The entire screen turns negative?
This would rather sound like a video driver problem then.

Since you have an intel chipset, I would suggest to try switching to the older but stable UXA acceleration:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Switch_xf86-video-intel_to_UXA

I don’t know whether this could possibly fix your particular problem though.