Flash 10.2 with no vdpau acceleration

[onemanclapping]

Hello,

Basically, the title says it all: I installed the new Flash 10.2 (with flash-aid) and I have no acceleration on Youtube.

I thought that maybe I had something wrong with my system, so I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10. Then installed Flash and the vdpau-va-driver. Still nothing.

I have a ION card, so I should have full flash acceleration on video, like I have in windows.

Any advice on how to debug this?

Thanks in advance.

[JOHNNYG713]

When you installed 10.10 did you also install the third party applications in the ubiquity installer, (this option is on one of the first pages of the installation) If so then there is no need to install flash player manually, as it gets installed from the start, You may have conflicting installations of flash !

[beew]

I have the same issue. I have tried disabling Comoiz but it makes no difference.

When you installed 10.10 did you also install the third party applications in the ubiquity installer, (this option is on one of the first pages of the installation) If so then there is no need to install flash player manually, as it gets installed from the start, You may have conflicting installations of flash !

Lovinglinux's flashaid plugin is supposed to get the latest flash while removing conflicting versions. Normally it works better than anything in the Ubuntu repositories.

[onemanclapping]

I have the same issue. I have tried disabling Comoiz but it makes no difference.

Do you also have an ION? Maybe this is an ION issue...

[gradinaruvasile]

Flash player does support vdpau. Tried and works (nvidia 8200 integrated, 270.18 drivers, should work with any vdau driver in theory). I just downloaded the tar.gz, unpacked it in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ (i have no flash installed from the repos).

Here is what i did to enable hardware decoding:
Created

/etc/adobe/mms.cfg and put this in it:

EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1

Restarted the browser and it worked (well on some sites anyway).

Working site: youtube, 1080p content works either at ~40% cpu or ~10-20% - i dont know why is this big difference, i tested it wth the same clip (big buck bunny) a few times.
I turned on the video details from the right click menu and it showed that it was accelerated (software rendering is at ~100% on my Athlon II x2 250 @3 GHz)
Vimeo said that stage video is available but for whatever reason it did not use it.

Problems: some sites wont play streaming video if hardware acceleration is enabled. Additionally, if flash is loaded once, i get tearing vdpau playback (with mplayer). Regardless if the browser is stopped, the tearing remains until i restart x or sometimes it goes away after a few suspend/resume cycles.
So Adobe had good reason to disable it by default.

[onemanclapping]

Here is what i did to enable hardware decoding:
Created

/etc/adobe/mms.cfg and put this in it:

EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1

Restarted the browser and it worked (well on some sites anyway).

PERFECT, worked like a charm! Thank you!