Saturday, May 12, 2012

Linux: Flash 11.2, Nvidia. Blue tint

If the Flash video on Youtube has a blue tint while using hardware acceleration, do the following.
Add the line EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1  to the file /etc/adobe/mms.cfg


This will fix the blue tint on Youtube and will probably lead to instability (crashes) on other sites.
To fully solve this a patched libvdpau is needed.

For Arch Linux you find it prepared here:http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59181
For ubuntu there doesn't seems to exist a fix for now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/968489

Note that this a error in Flash and not VDPAU.