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

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 22:10 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 04:49 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > Reload the page, after the change in "settings". Works every time IF you 
> I wonder where that setting is stored? I have the entire .adobe subtree
> set to read-only, so it isn't being stored there.

I forgot I had unprotected ~/.macromedia so that iView could correctly
tell me what was "new". The settings are saved in this location, I
think:

   .macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/settings.sol

When I reprotected ~/.macromedia, the setting would not "stick", not
even across a page reload. So the solution (for anyone else out there
who doesn't like Flash cookies) is to allow read-write access long
enough for the plugin to save the settings.

Quite a long time ago (many months - maybe years) I took the
sledgehammer approach and write-protected the entire ~/.macromedia
subtree (chmod -R u=rw,go= ~/.macromedia), Apart from iView having a
pretty warped view of what's "new", everything still seems to work.

If this is the first time, I suggest doing the following (which is
pretty much what I just did, because there was nothing in the directory
that I wanted to save):

 - close all browser windows and anything at all running Flash or a
Flash plugin

 - open a terminal window and do "rm -fr ~/.macromedia"

- open a browser window, go to youtube.com, play a random video

- right click on the playing video, select "settings", uncheck
acceleration, click close

- reload the page, check that the blue tint is gone

- in the terminal window, do "chmod -R u=rw,go= ~/.macromedia"

Regards, K.

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