Finally able to test out the fix and I can confirm just appending "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1" to /etc/adobe/mms.cfg worked for me.
Here's my card (Zotac brand): VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) On an ASUS M4A88TD-M/USB3 Also, I just use VDPAU in mplayer and VA-API with the VDPAU backend in VLC. Works great. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > 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> >
