(Problem solved) Re: problems with flash (youTube) videos and VLC can't read DVDs

[Bill Stanley]

On 10/24/2012 09:53 PM, Ric Moore 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?
>
> Right click in the video that is bluish. Click on preferences and turn
> off (uncheck) video acceleration. Works every time. Piece O Cake. Ric

I found that setting and turned off hardware acceleration.  That fixed 
the problem.  However, since both Firefox and the Chrome browser showed 
the same problem, it seems that there is a problem with hardware 
acceleration.  Probably it is Nvidia's fault and since they are the only 
ones that can fix it, I will file a bug report with them.

Bill Stanley