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

[Ric Moore]

On 10/25/2012 10:46 AM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> 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.

I would think that the problem lies with Adobe and their attitude 
towards Linux in general. At least nVidia hasn't publicly abandoned us. Ric


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