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Most recently, youtube seems to have changed its player, and no Linux I run seems to like it at all. It still loads and plays, but the colors are all ...
- 03-10-2011 #1Linux Guru
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Yo, I have a Youtube Complaint!
Most recently, youtube seems to have changed its player, and no Linux I run seems to like it at all. It still loads and plays, but the colors are all messed up, like flash took some sort of LSD. This does not affect other sites like dailymotion or vimeo, just youtube, so I'm not inclined to think it's an Adobe or Linux fault. This problem is present on my 3GHz OpenSuse 11.3 dual core machine and the older Xubuntu 500MHz computer, both running Adobe flash player 10.2r152. I have not tested on the OpenSuse 11.1 machine.
What I want to know before making a huge stink, are other people also having this problem?
Has the cause been identified?
Is a fix in the works?
Is there anything I can do to mitigate this problem (short of downloading the videos separately and playing with xine/kaffiene/mplayer/vlc)?
- 03-10-2011 #2Linux Engineer
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Have not noticed any problems with colors but what I have noticed is that when I play vyoutube using chrome, I can't find the files in the tmp folder anymore. I was kinda thinking if they had changed their system or something...
- 03-10-2011 #3Super Moderator
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I've noticed no problems at all. Hopefully you'll figure it out sooner rather than later. Keep us posted.
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- 03-10-2011 #4Linux Guru
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Yeah, the new player uses the standard browser cache system, so sufficiently large files get written in the cache directory under some arbitrary name, while smaller ones may stay in the memory cache and never see the hard drive at all. It's one of the things that verified to me that the youtube player had changed and not just some corruption in flashplayer.so.
Originally Posted by nujinini 
I should have mentioned that I am using firefox on both machines, but it also did it in Konqueror. I haven't tried Opera or Chrome since I don't have either installed... good ideas.
Example of what I'm dealing with:
Most videos have a real preponderance of orange.
- 03-10-2011 #5Just Joined!
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On my Mint 9 box, with Firfox 3.6.15 youtube works great as ever.
Hope you'll get rid of the issue.
- 03-10-2011 #6Linux Guru
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i have also seen this on my girlfriend's netbook running mint9 and whatever latest flash is on that
curiously, it only seemed to happen when viewed through an external monitor, so i thought it had something to do with that, but seems not
- 03-10-2011 #7Linux Guru
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I've read that disabling video acceleration in settings menu can fix ceratin youtube problems. Also disabling adblock plus in chrome browser for other problems. I only get what you get D-Cat on certain youtube videos. Others are Ok. Weird I know.
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- 03-11-2011 #8Super Moderator
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Next time ya'll find one that doesn't work, send me the link and let me see if it works on my machine.
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- 03-11-2011 #9Linux Guru
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No problems here - running Chrome 10 on SL6, 64-bit.
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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