Fedora 17 KDE hangs while playing YouTube videos

[Ahmad Samir]

On 31 July 2012 13:52, Lukas Middendorf <lukas+fedora at tuxforce.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some similar problems with flash and the nvidia driver because of vdpau.
> According to nvidia devs on nvnews, adobe uses vdpau wrongly (swapped
> parameters in function calls).
>
> The simplest soltion is to just delete /usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so*
> (use lib instead of lib64 for 32 bit flash). The side effect is that vdpau will
> no longer work anywhere else, but for me that does not matter. It has to be
> done again when the nvidia driver is updated or reinstalled.
>

Instead of deleting that lib, try disabling hardware acceleration in
Adobe's Flash settings (right clicking on a flash video -> Settings ->
Display), this seems to stop it from using VDPAU altogether (that
fixes a problem I had, the videos having the wrong hue, they look
bluish).

>
> Lukas
>


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Ahmad Samir