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

[James Freer]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Bill Stanley wrote:

> 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.
> Bill Stanley

It was just a suggestion on my part. I'm on 12.04 and it would seem that FF has 
had a setting changed which affects Chrome. I removed FF immediately after the 
install.

james