Fedora 17 KDE hangs while playing YouTube videos

[Nikhil bhalwankar]

Hi,


I am facing a weired issue while playing YouTube videos on KDE session 
of Fedora 17. The session freezes while videos are getting played. The 
issue is intermittant. Can anybody please help me on this?


Many Thanks,
Nikhil Bhalwankar

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 13:12 +0800, Nikhil bhalwankar wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  
>  I am facing a weired issue while playing YouTube videos on KDE session 
>  of Fedora 17. The session freezes while videos are getting played. The 
>  issue is intermittant. Can anybody please help me on this? 
You should at least say what video player you're using.

poc

[Rex Dieter]

On 07/30/2012 12:12 AM, Nikhil bhalwankar wrote:

>  I am facing a weired issue while playing YouTube videos on KDE
> session
>  of Fedora 17. The session freezes while videos are getting played. The
>  issue is intermittant. Can anybody please help me on this? 
session freeze as in even mouse doesn't move?  If so, almost certainly 
some sort of video driver hang/crash.  Some questions to help answer better:
1.  How were you watching/playing these videos exactly?
2.  What video hardware/driver are you using?

-- rex

[Lukas Middendorf]

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.


Lukas


On Monday 30 July 2012 13:12:39 Nikhil bhalwankar wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  
>  I am facing a weired issue while playing YouTube videos on KDE session
>  of Fedora 17. The session freezes while videos are getting played. The
>  issue is intermittant. Can anybody please help me on this?
>  
>  
>  Many Thanks,
>  Nikhil Bhalwankar

[Ahmad Samir]

On 31 July 2012 13:52, Lukas Middendorf <lukas+fedora(a)tuxforce.de&gt; 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
>  

-- 
Ahmad Samir

[Kevin Kofler]

Ahmad Samir wrote:
>  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). 
Or just uninstall Flash (and use HTML 5, YouTube supports it for most 
videos), uninstall the nvidia driver (and use Nouveau), or both!

Why is everybody putting up with broken proprietary software?

        Kevin Kofler