problems with flash (youTube) videos and VLC can't read DVDs

[Bill Stanley]

On 10/24/2012 05:56 PM, James Freer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Bill Stanley<bstanle at wowway.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/24/2012 02:51 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/24/2012 09:55 AM, Bill Stanley wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have recently installed Xubuntu 12.04 and am having some video
>>>> problems.  The two problems are probably unrelated.
>>>>
>>>> The first issue is the videos appearing on YouTube.  While I can view
>>>> the videos, everything has a bluish color.  I read that this might be a
>>>> problem with the Flash plugin.  Is there any solution to this problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> Try it with flash off. Many of the newer youtube videos are also
>>> available in WebM format, which by default is enabled in Firefox.
>>> Sample url:
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeXMxuNNlE8&feature=g-logo-xit>
>>> Note: no preference, I just picked one from the youtube page.
>>>
>>
>> Disabling the Flash plugin doesn't help.  The video link you provided
>> requires Flash so it wouldn't display at all.  With Flash enabled, I see the
>> video but everything is still blue.
>>
>>
>>>> The second problem involves VLC not being able to read (decrypt) DVD's.
>>>>     I looked on VLCs website and they say that libdvdcss is needed.  I
>>>> went ti the Ubuntu software repository and several packages say they
>>>> install it.  I tried them and libdvdcss was not installed.  I used a
>>>> file search utility and it could not find it anywhere on the system.  I
>>>> need to properly install this.  What must I do?
>>>
>>>
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill Stanley
>>
> I think it's a Firefox issue... I'm on Chrome with no problems.

I installed chrome and it too shows the same blue shades so it is not 
unique to the Firefox browser.  It looks like it's something with 
Xubuntu or its drivers.  The funny thing is that I only seem to have 
this problem in the last week and I don't believe I changed anything for 
at least a month.

> james
>


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Bill Stanley