A couple of booby-traps for the unwarey... 1) There seemes to be a colour translation bug in recent versions of Flash that only shows with the Nvidia video drivers. Red and blue are swapped in Flash. If you see people with blue faces, and you're not watching Avatar, you've hit this bug. The solution is to edit /etc/adobe/mms.cfg Append the line...
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 This will work with most Nvidia cards. If that doesn't work, try making it two lines, namely... EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 OverrideGPUValidation=true Note that Flash is quite fragile with these two lines, and the plugin crashes a lot. 2) Nvidia drivers do not like the mplayer "xv" video output option at all. It hangs my machine, requiring Magic-Sysrq to shut down semi-gracefully. Don't use that option with Nvidia drivers. So my Dell Inspiron D530 desktop, which is pushing 5 years, paired with a $40 Asus EN210 SILENT/DI/512MD3/V2(LP) NVIDIA GeForce 210 Chipset (589Mhz) 512MB (1333Mhz) GDDR3 DVI/VGA/HDMI PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card gets over 5300 fps in glxgears. In real life, it plays 1080p Youtube HD videos fullscreen (1920x1080) without stuttering. I do have to let it buffer for several seconds first, because my 6 megabit ADSL connection nets 4.98 megabits, and it can't quite keep up with the required download speed. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
