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Comment 9 for bug 968489

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Jan Vlnas (jnv) wrote : Re: flash video appears blue ubuntu 12.04

Same problem in Ubuntu 11.10, I think this have started with a recent update to the Flash Player (package adobe-flashplayer).

Honestly, I don't think your solution could fix anything (and I've tried); RPM package places plugin into /usr/lib64 and won't symlink the Flash library to browsers' plugin directories, so you end up without Flash Player completely. Furthermore you can't have both adobe-flashplugin and flash-plugin (from converted RPM) installed at once due to conflicting files in both packages.
If you've tested only YouTube videos, it's possible you've been switched to HTML5 player – and native browser video works flawlessly, indeed!

The guys from Arch are onto this, they've linked the issue to vdpau – see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137877 – so this is very probably related to H.264 hardware decoding.

So I think that solutions here are:
- use patched vdpau
- uninstall vdpau completely (Flash and video players will default to CPU decoding)
- disable Flash hardware acceleration (there are some options for mms.cfg file which could help)