youtube has white spots in videos

[John Nelson]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

On videos on youtube firefox displays white dots on some certain colors such as black and such.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 30 21:18:33 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-5-generic i686

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please follow the instructions on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs with creating a new profile?

Also, please answer these questions:

Which flash package do you have installed?
Which Firefox extensions do you have installed?

This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[to6o (to6o123)]

I have the same problem
using kubuntu 8.10
from FF3 about:plugins
Shockwave Flash

    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 10.0.0 d525

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008090211 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.2
Extensions (enabled: 11, disabled: 0):

    * Add N Edit Cookies 0.2.1.3
    * Exif Viewer 1.45
    * Forecastbar Enhanced 0.9.6
    * GBookmarks (Google bookmarks for Firefox) 0.4
    * GooglePreview 3.13
    * InfoLister 0.10
    * PDF Download 2.0.0.0
    * Session Manager 0.6.2.3
    * Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7pre.080830
    * Ubuntu Firefox Modifications 0.6~b1
    * Web Developer 1.1.6

Themes (3):

    * Firefox (default) 2.0
    * Firefox 2, the theme, reloaded 0.9.3 [selected]
    * Neptune 3.0

Plugins (7):

    * Adobe Reader 8.0
    * Default Plugin
    * Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux
    * Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_07-b06
    * Kaffeine Starter Plugin
    * Shockwave Flash
    * VLC Multimedia Plugin

Package: flashplugin-nonfree
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/web
Installed-Size: 164
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1
Replaces: flashplugin (<< 6)
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, wget, libgtk2.0-0, fontconfig, libxt6, libxext6, libatk1.0-0, libc6, libcairo2, libexpat1, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libglib2.0-0, libice6, libpango1.0-0, libpng12-0, libsm6, libx11-6, libxau6, libxcursor1, libxdmcp6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1, zlib1g
Recommends: libasound2-plugins (>= 1.0.16) | libflashsupport (>> 1.9-0ubuntu1)
Suggests: firefox, xulrunner-1.9, firefox-3.0, konqueror-nsplugins, x-ttcidfont-conf, msttcorefonts, ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree, xfs (>= 1:1.0.1-5)
Conflicts: flashplayer-mozilla, flashplugin (<< 6), xfs (<< 1:1.0.1-5)

Package: flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/sound
Installed-Size: 64
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.0.svn2431-3
Replaces: libflashsupport
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4)
Recommends: flashplugin-nonfree
Conflicts: flashplugin-nonfree-pulse, libflashsupport

do you need additional info?

[Mellotron (krisajw)]

I am getting the same problem

Ubuntu 8.10 32bit, Pretty much the same as the post above

A bit more information

It is not just white dots, it is also black dots. When you have video displaying bright colours or white, you see black dots, lines. Youtube seems to be the only one effected, I tried Metacafe, and Google Video, and both showed their own material fine. When watching Youtube from google video however, the pixels and artifacts returned. When opening up the downloaded youtube file found in the /tmp file, the video displayed fine (Played in VLC)
Some video seems to be worse than others, and some videos display no artifacts whatsoever. It is just a suspicion, but I think it perhaps might be on the aspect ratio being properly converted into youtube. What I mean is that the low quality, ripped content, and anything put onto the youtube haphazardly seemed to give off the most pixel artifacts. The sponsored videos however, or videos that received proper conversions (Such as being in a letterboxed widescreen vs being pan-scanned) tended to be near perfect.

I am not sure if that helps or not, but~