Accelerated playback on YouTube swaps red and blue color channels
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On YouTube, you can right-click the player and select "Show video info". An information box pops up and you can see if the video is being played back using hardware acceleration or software rendering. For me, it's usually played back using software rendering, but I just now installed the mplayer2 package, which depends on libvdpau1, and all of a sudden, I got hardware-
Upon removing the libvdpau1 package, the videos go back to normal, with red and blue in their proper place.
I am using Google Chrome, which uses its own bundled version of the Flash plugin, but the problem also happens in Firefox which uses the Flash plugin installed on the system. My graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 580. No overclocking or funny business there though, just a reference card.
The following is a list of versions of more or less relevant packages:
$ apt-cache policy google-
nvidia-current:
Installed: 295.33-
Candidate: 295.33-
Version table:
*** 295.33-
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
280.
500 http://
libvdpau1:
Installed: 0.4.1-2ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.4.1-2ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.4.1-2ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
flashplugin-
Installed: 11.2.202.
Candidate: 11.2.202.
Version table:
*** 11.2.202.
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
11.
500 http://
google-
Installed: 18.0.1025.
Candidate: 18.0.1025.
Version table:
*** 18.0.1025.
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.