05 March, 2011

flash 10.2

Anyone who has updated to the latest Adobe Flash, you can fix video's (which are now pink on sites like Youtube) like this:

Step 1. Right click on a flash content (I went to this flash site http://moodstream.gettyimages.... and simply right clicked on the page)
Step 2. Choose the entry "Settings..."
Step 3. Unclick entry "Enable hardware acceleration"
Step 4. Click "Close"

And done :D

Enjoy non-pink video's again!

why oh why

The issue is probably caused by the crappy video driver situation on Linux... Or just crappy engineering on Adobe's side, something we've gotten used to by now, haven't we?

Let's hope HTML5 will help us get rid of Flash once and for all. And let's hope we've learned our lesson and don't jump from one hole into another by adopting a non-open codec like x264 instead of WebM or Ogg or something else really open. Yes, of course open includes being royalty-free - how can you call anything 'open' or 'a standard' if there are limits on who can implement it?

Aaah well, live ain't perfect. So relax, enjoy your weekend and if you live in Brazil - Carnaval on Monday and Tuesday!

12 comments:

  1. Yeah, Hope that HTML5 kills Flash. Flash must die. It stills depend of gtk!
    If there are someone near Colombia, here is also a carnaval (the carnaval of Barranquilla!) :D

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  2. We can already get rid of Flash, `sudo zypper rm flashplayer`, quite simple. Why should I need Flash? youtube? youtube-dl and vlc. Games? Not that important, if I can't play all games, hey, I am using GNU/Linux. Flash-websites? They are usually not worth it visiting them, who implements websites using Flash? Simly remove this proprietary piece of ugly software from your computer.

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  3. cologne full a carnival vibes too, alaaf!

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  4. x264 is free. The US (!) laws surrounding it are not. You have to fight the laws not the freedom fighters implementing AVC.

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  5. chromium had pink layered video with html5 too http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=57741

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  6. Ah.. thanks. That fixed an annoying visual glitch I was seeing on flash videos too, though it wasn't pink :)

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  7. instead of being happy and grateful that Adobe made flash player for linux (which is one of the necessary things for linux adoption), you are spitting on them and calling "getting rid of them". This is same ungrateful nerdy attitude that prevented wider adoption of linux and made the image of linux as systems for weirdos. Shame on you.

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  8. Chrome 10 Beta + youtube.com/html5.

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  9. @Anonymous
    Yes, it would be difficult to explain you friends, why to switch to GNU/Linux without Flash. So we can be somehow happy that it works more or less. But we should not be happy that there is this proprietary software, that it is so widely used, and even with Windows I would not want to use it, because it is just ugly. That may be nerdy, but – and that is more important – it is matter of ideals.

    Btw:
    Couldn't you get rid of that Blogspot-blog, it does not work very well with Konqueror and it is a proprietary Google-service. :D

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  10. > instead of being happy and grateful that Adobe made flash
    > player for linux (which is one of the necessary things for
    > linux adoption), you are spitting on them and calling "getting
    > rid of them". This is same ungrateful nerdy attitude that
    > prevented wider adoption of linux and made the image of linux
    > as systems for weirdos. Shame on you.

    Well, I agree in general, but that doesn't change the fact that flash was just a crappy idea from the beginning. Although it's good that flash is crossplatform and everything, we really should see we get rid of it as soon as possible in order to push newer and better-by-design technologies like WebGL.

    Bye,
    Sven

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  11. In contrary, it was a good idea from the beginning!
    It added vector graphics support to the browser.
    And it was done in a _modular_ manner as a plug-in,
    a much more UNIX-like approach than the "browser
    as a whole (google/trojan) OS" of nowadays.
    Of course, flash should be free, but there ever
    was and still is a slight hope ... But even now,
    I'm truly convinced, that this "google way of
    browser" is a lot more dangerous for free software.
    So - get rid of Blogger.com - no smiley here

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  12. What do we do if the settings option is disabled?

    "Why should I need Flash? youtube? youtube-dl and vlc. Games? Not that important, if I can't play all games, hey, I am using GNU/Linux. Flash-websites? They are usually not worth it visiting them, who implements websites using Flash? "

    The saying is very true about to what degree Linux users become accustomed to doing without. :-)

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