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

[Basil Chupin]

On 26/10/12 09:10, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

ADOBE will no longer support Flash for Linux after the last release of 
Flash so it is of no use telling Adobe that there is a problem with 
their Flash-and-you're-ash application. This, of course, is also why 
there is a push to get HTML5 fully functonal.

BC

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