adobe-flash 11.2.202.228 playing blues?[Solved-Rolling-Eyes]

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ahgblopes · Post by **ahgblopes** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:03 am

What patch are you exactly talking about? How do i apply it? Does it works on recent packages?

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:09 am

ahgblopes wrote:What patch are you exactly talking about? How do i apply it? Does it works on recent packages?

The patch from page 2 of this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-70 ... ml#7047686

You will need to create your own local overlay and create a libvdpau ebuild there. But doesn't work for me with the newly merged vdpau and flash.

ahgblopes · Post by **ahgblopes** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:51 am

ppurka wrote:
ahgblopes wrote:What patch are you exactly talking about? How do i apply it? Does it works on recent packages?
The patch from page 2 of this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-70 ... ml#7047686

You will need to create your own local overlay and create a libvdpau ebuild there. But doesn't work for me with the newly merged vdpau and flash.

I guess this patch is outdated, am i right?

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:07 am

ahgblopes wrote:
ppurka wrote:
ahgblopes wrote:What patch are you exactly talking about? How do i apply it? Does it works on recent packages?
The patch from page 2 of this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-70 ... ml#7047686

You will need to create your own local overlay and create a libvdpau ebuild there. But doesn't work for me with the newly merged vdpau and flash.
I guess this patch is outdated, am i right?

nope, worked here with great with latest flash and live vdpau.

is there even a bug about this?

ahgblopes · Post by **ahgblopes** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 6:37 am

DaggyStyle wrote:
ahgblopes wrote:
ppurka wrote:
ahgblopes wrote:What patch are you exactly talking about? How do i apply it? Does it works on recent packages?
The patch from page 2 of this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-70 ... ml#7047686

You will need to create your own local overlay and create a libvdpau ebuild there. But doesn't work for me with the newly merged vdpau and flash.
I guess this patch is outdated, am i right?
nope, worked here with great with latest flash and live vdpau.

is there even a bug about this?

thank you ...I applied the patch. No more avatar people...

BUT, i'm runing gentoo on a 1,6Ghz atom(2Gb ram), so i only get a acceptable performance with booth accelerated rendering AND decoding (puting EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg) and flash crashes sometimes with this.

flash really sucks...

Gusar · Post by **Gusar** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:17 am

ppurka wrote:Yeah. I have done that. Anyway.. 11.1 is working good for me. I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade to a broken flash.

Security vulnerabilities aren't a compelling reason? And, as I already said earlier in the thread, the only reason 11.1 works is because it has hardware presentation deactivated.

How about if you set enable_flash_uv_swap=0 in /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg? And do you by any chance have EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg?

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:36 pm

Gusar wrote:
ppurka wrote:Yeah. I have done that. Anyway.. 11.1 is working good for me. I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade to a broken flash.
Security vulnerabilities aren't a compelling reason? And, as I already said earlier in the thread, the only reason 11.1 works is because it has hardware presentation deactivated.

How about if you set enable_flash_uv_swap=0 in /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg? And do you by any chance have EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg?

so what is the alternative? please offer a plugin which supports all aspects and not forces us to install gstreamer.

Gusar · Post by **Gusar** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:46 pm

DaggyStyle wrote:so what is the alternative?

It's already mentioned in the thread. But to repeat it yet again (maybe this time it'll stick)...

10.3 is still maintained. The version currently in portage is vulnerable, but Adobe provides a newer version that isn't.
If 10.3 doesn't work right for you, use 11.2, disable hardware decoding (comment out EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg) and use the libvdpau patch to fix the blue people. Yeah, with that you're without hardware decoding (duh...), but you at least have hardware presentation.

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:50 pm

Gusar wrote:
ppurka wrote:Yeah. I have done that. Anyway.. 11.1 is working good for me. I don't see a compelling reason to upgrade to a broken flash.
Security vulnerabilities aren't a compelling reason? And, as I already said earlier in the thread, the only reason 11.1 works is because it has hardware presentation deactivated.

I see two options:
1. Use new flash which *never* works in my case (blue tints)
2. Use old flash which is insecure, but which works (but I don't visit random sites).

Since I tend to not visit any arbitrary sites, I will clearly pick the option that is suitable for me. It doesn't help that some important sites often use flash.

How about if you set enable_flash_uv_swap=0 in /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg? And do you by any chance have EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg?

It doesn't seem to help what that variable is set to. I have tried it and it works (with the default settings in /etc/vdpau_wrapper.cfg) when I use my browser as root. But it doesn't work as user. I deleted ~/.adobe and ~/.macromedia to wipe out any user settings, and it still doesn't work.

The file /etc/adobe/mms.cfg does not even have any string containing "EnableLinux" in it.

EDIT: 1. Flash shows correct colors in firefox as user, or in opera/firefox as root
2. Shows blue tint in opera as user.

DaggyStyle · Post by **DaggyStyle** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:11 pm

Gusar wrote:
DaggyStyle wrote:so what is the alternative?
It's already mentioned in the thread. But to repeat it yet again (maybe this time it'll stick)...

10.3 is still maintained. The version in portage is vulnerable, but Adobe provides a newer version (10.3.183.20) that isn't.
If 10.3 doesn't work right for you, use 11.2, disable hardware decoding (comment out EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg) and use the libvdpau patch to fix the blue people. Yeah, with that you're without hardware decoding (duh...), but you at least have hardware presentation.

so if the version in portage is vulnerable, why is it still there?

Gusar · Post by **Gusar** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:34 pm

DaggyStyle wrote:so if the version in portage is vulnerable, why is it still there?

I don't know, I don't maintain the package in portage. Here's the security bulletins:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/b ... 12-09.html <- fixed in 11.2.202.235 and 10.3.183.19
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/b ... 12-14.html <- fixed in 11.2.202.236 and 10.3.183.20

pjv · Post by **pjv** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:51 pm

For those people that are only now trying to apply Stephen Warren's patch, I had to insert the following line above the "epatch" line in the ebuild to get the patch to apply:

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   EPATCH_OPTS="-F 3 -l"

ExecutorElassus · Post by **ExecutorElassus** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:40 am

So, I have another question about the current flash player.

If I export VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1, the player on Comedy Central's Daily Show page crashes. Is anybody else getting this behavior? This is under chromium.

Cheers,

EE

gorkypl · Post by **gorkypl** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:07 pm

Hmm, I have built libvdpau from sources and with the attached patch. Still I see blueish people in flash, and I think it started after last upgrade of mesa and ati drivers.

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x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.6-r1
media-libs/mesa-8.1_rc1_pre20120724
www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.236

Is there anything more I should do?

cord · Post by **cord** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:02 am

Adobe-flash is suck, use vlc instead. (R)

weedy · Post by **weedy** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:09 pm

Here

https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... angeset/36

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:01 am

weedy wrote:Here

https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... angeset/36

Thank you very much for this. This solved the blue people problem for me.

mrpdaemon · Post by **mrpdaemon** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:01 am

weedy wrote:Here

https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... angeset/36

Thanks, this is the best solution out of all the alternatives (no security issues, no crashes due to HW acceleration and of course no blue people)

Maybe this should be pushed to libvdpau portage with something like a "fixflash" USE flag.

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:14 am

As I noted a month ago, the patch fixes flash on firefox but not on opera.

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:08 pm

ppurka wrote:As I noted a month ago, the patch fixes flash on firefox but not on opera.

Why is that? Does Opera have its own static libvdpau or is it something else?
(the patch works for chromium too)

Yczo · Post by **Yczo** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:50 pm

Sorry for my ignorance but, how I can install this? (the program with the patch on the link)

https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... angeset/36

Regards

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:12 pm

First of all, you'll need to create a local overlay. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay# ... th_Portage

Now, cd to your local overlay and then run (as root/sudo, obviously):

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# mkdir -p x11-libs/libvdpau/files

Put these two files in the x11-libs/libvdpau/files directory:
https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... free.patch
https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... bugs.patch

Download the ebuild and put it in your x11-libs/libvdpau directory
https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... -r1.ebuild

If I were you, I would rename it to libvdpau-0.4.1-r2 so that portage prefers it over the official one.

Next, cd to the x11-libs/libvdpau directory and run this as root/sudo, assuming that you renamed the file like above:

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# ebuild libvdpau-0.4.1-r2 manifest

Finally, just

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# emerge -av1 libvdpau

hardiy · Post by **hardiy** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:33 am

Try with VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1, it fixed the crashes for me and at least one other person.

azp · Post by **azp** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:25 pm

epsilon72 wrote:First of all, you'll need to create a local overlay. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay# ... th_Portage

Now, cd to your local overlay and then run (as root/sudo, obviously):
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# mkdir -p x11-libs/libvdpau/files
Put these two files in the x11-libs/libvdpau/files directory:
https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... free.patch
https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... bugs.patch

Download the ebuild and put it in your x11-libs/libvdpau directory
https://suigintou.weedy.ca/trac/gentoo- ... -r1.ebuild

If I were you, I would rename it to libvdpau-0.4.1-r2 so that portage prefers it over the official one.

Next, cd to the x11-libs/libvdpau directory and run this as root/sudo, assuming that you renamed the file like above:
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# ebuild libvdpau-0.4.1-r2 manifest
Finally, just
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# emerge -av1 libvdpau

Why is this patch (and ebuild) still not in portage? It's very old now, and a lot of people seem to bump into the issue.

Bug report and discussion here:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410435

ulenrich · Post by **ulenrich** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 1:16 am

isn't Nvidia update
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.43
claiming to have solved vdpau issues?
Did someone try?