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On 20/04/12 09:39, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> A couple of booby-traps for the unwarey... |
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> 1) There seemes to be a colour translation bug in recent versions of |
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> Flash that only shows with the Nvidia video drivers. Red and blue are |
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> swapped in Flash. If you see people with blue faces, and you're not |
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> watching Avatar, you've hit this bug. The solution is to edit |
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> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg Append the line... |
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> EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 |
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> This will work with most Nvidia cards. If that doesn't work, try making |
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> it two lines, namely... |
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> EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 |
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> OverrideGPUValidation=true |
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> Note that Flash is quite fragile with these two lines, and the plugin |
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> crashes a lot. |
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A crash-free solution is to leave mms.cfg as-is and instead right click |
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in a flash window, select "Settings" and uncheck the hardware |
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acceleration checkbox. You probably need to restart the browser after that. |
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> 2) Nvidia drivers do not like the mplayer "xv" video output option at |
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> all. It hangs my machine, requiring Magic-Sysrq to shut down |
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> semi-gracefully. Don't use that option with Nvidia drivers. |
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Hmm. Xv is the most stable option for most users. |
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