Red turning blue in Flash

**ahowe42** · August 7th, 2012

There has to be a better solution for fixing only youtube videos than disabling hardware acceleration, which will potentially affect everything that uses the screen...

**Scott Harrison** · August 7th, 2012

I had the same (comical) issue a while back. Here is the fix:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/11712...o-appears-blue

**isantop** · August 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

No, it's Adobe's fault. Somewhere along the way they reversed the red/blue channels when Flash tries to play "Stage Video" streams that use the NVIDIA adapter's H.264 hardware acceleration code. YouTube uses Stage Video and thus you get "smurfed" people.

As others have said, the fix is to go fullscreen, right-click on the video and choose Settings. Uncheck the hardware acceleration box. Then close the browser and open it again. The problem should be resolved.

This bug was created by Adobe but will never be fixed, since they have discontinued support for Flash on the Linux platform. Nice of them to leave us with this bug just as they shut down development.

FYI: Development of flash on Linux has been turned over to Google, so all hope is not lost.

**ahowe42** · August 7th, 2012

The solution Scott linked to seems to have worked for me. Thanks!

**Ubun2to** · August 8th, 2012

Originally Posted by isantop

FYI: Development of flash on Linux has been turned over to Google, so all hope is not lost.

Hopefully Google will maintain Flash development for browsers besides Chrome. I prefer Chromium to Chrome, as it is open source.

**finny388** · September 26th, 2012

Originally Posted by ahowe42

There has to be a better solution for fixing only youtube videos than disabling hardware acceleration, which will potentially affect everything that uses the screen...

Agreed
The only thing that upsets me more on this issue than Adobe leaving us hanging is people proclaiming Solved! by turning off HW acceleration.

You can have low grade video, choppy high res, or crystal clear high res smurfs.

i can't wait for Flash to die but it's gonna be a long time

I encourage people to sign up for YouTube's html5 trial, though in my experience most everything is still in Flash.

**finny388** · September 26th, 2012

Originally Posted by ahowe42

The solution Scott linked to seems to have worked for me. Thanks!

There are a few solution options on that page. Which one worked for you?

**Ubun2to** · September 27th, 2012

Originally Posted by finny388

Agreed
The only thing that upsets me more on this issue than Adobe leaving us hanging is people proclaiming Solved! by turning off HW acceleration.

You can have low grade video, choppy high res, or crystal clear high res smurfs.

i can't wait for Flash to die but it's gonna be a long time

I encourage people to sign up for YouTube's html5 trial, though in my experience most everything is still in Flash.

In my experience, hardware acceleration was extremely buggy. Sometimes, it would play way faster than it should, then slow down a lot.