Comment 134 for bug 967091

> Don't forget to create a file named /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg with the following contents:

That could be added to the deb package too. Just a thought. :)

I think it's very important that Ubuntu implement a fix or workaround
for this bug so that YouTube will work out-of-the-box. Otherwise,
regardless of who's ultimately to blame, it will be a hindrance to
Ubuntu's acceptance, AKA Bug #1.

As an aside, even when the Flash plugin isn't displaying the wrong
colors, its performance is poor. It seems like the choices are to use
hardware decoding so it plays smoothly, but suffer crashes, or use
software playback so it doesn't crash, but suffer stuttering video.

One handy workaround I discovered the other day is to use something
like this to play the videos in an external player, like VLC, while
letting the Flash plugin continue to do the downloading:

$ vlc "$(stat -c %N /proc/*/fd/* 2>&1|awk -F[\`\'] '/lash/{print$2}' |
tail -n1)"

Using this, you can skip ahead from within the Flash plugin to the
point where you want to start watching the video, then run that
command, and VLC will start playing from that point while Flash
continues the download.