Desperate plea for help with graphics problem

[brendanperrine@gmail.com]

There is a package that plays youtube videos without flash called minitube.


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:43 PM, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:

> On 1/2/2014 7:24 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>
>> Hello.  I downloaded Lubuntu 13.10 today and updated the system
>> completely.  I'm running on a Dell Dimension 3000 desktop.  I'm
>> encountering a problem with graphics that is not unique to Lubuntu, but
>> perhaps can be solved here.
>>
>> I use Evolution as my groupware client.  Version 3.2.3, that ships with
>> many distros based on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, is buggy and annoying.  You
>> need to have a distro that runs at least Ubuntu 12.10 in order to have
>> the dependencies you need to run later versions of Evolution, which work
>> much better.
>>
>> But later versions of Linux bork my graphics in both Firefox and
>> Chromium.  When I try to play a video, say, on YouTube, the video is
>> squished and distorted, just maddening!
>>
>> So, my quandary: I need later versions of Evolution in order to get my
>> work done, which require later versions of the Ubuntu software, but
>> these later versions seem to really bork my graphics so that I can't see
>> anything!
>>
>> Oddly, VLC works fine.  And I can copy a URL from YouTube, open it in
>> VLC, and it works just fine!
>>
>> I'm so puzzled.  If anyone can help, I'd really be grateful.  Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I wonder if you are looking at behavior from a bug I wrestled with last
> year: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1212455
>
> If so, the bug thread has a nice work-around (Comment #39).
>
> Although I must say that in my case, I had no experience of playing these
> videos (successfully or otherwise) in VLC -- didn't occur to me to test
> this.  And it does provoke questions about why VLC works fine with these.
>
>
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