NVIDIA Releases Updated VDPAU LIbrary

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases Updated VDPAU LIbrary

NVIDIA on Tuesday released the open-source libvdpau 0.5 library for their Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE3NTg

[Thaodan]

One fix is to workaround the Flash blob passing color arguments to a function in an incorrect order, which can lead to some Flash videos having a bluish tint.

Yes!, finally no more bad colored videos on youtube.

[bug77]

Yes!, finally no more bad colored videos on youtube.

Yes, I suspect that was hurting anyone using the driver from nvidia (myself included). Luckily, when Adobe drops support, they really drop it, they can't be bothered to fix stuff like this

[e8hffff]

I just upgraded to a GTX660 Ti from a HD3870 Radeon. One of the problems I am experiencing is the video layer for flash is drawing not only int he browser but sometimes to the desktop. Not sure if it's a fault with the transparent layer used or problem with clipping/redraw.

I say the above as maybe this will fix the problem.

EDIT: "One fix is to workaround the Flash blob passing color arguments to a function in an incorrect order, which can lead to some Flash videos having a bluish tint. The other fix is for colors bleeding through to other windows. Lastly, there's a small memory leak fix when unloading libvdpau. "

Yes that's the problem... I have also noticed videos playing in smurf mode.

[e8hffff]

Just updated the lib. So far no smurf videos, and the once overlay problem has gone.

A new issue I've noticed is the video layer isn't very good with scrolling. I see lime green transparent layer late to shift from the once video overlay area when scrolling in firefox.

[aceman]

I get the blue videos also with OSS radeon driver on HD4350. What's up with that? I am not sure I even have this vdpau library installed.

[stativ]

A nice example how crappy the Flash is. Instead of fixing bug in flash (and it would certainly be a very simple fix), others have to work around Adobe's incompetency.

[curaga]

I get the blue videos also with OSS radeon driver on HD4350. What's up with that? I am not sure I even have this vdpau library installed.

See stativ's post above. It's Adobe's bug, Nvidia just worked around it.

[C-MoH]

These two bugs are awful. Nice to hear they've fixed them. I don't understand why the author is not excited - life on Linux does get better even when just bugs get fixed.

By the way, I can't log into phoronix with Konqueror... only with Firefox; I guess another bug I'm going to be excited when it gets fixed

[TAXI]

I get the blue videos also with OSS radeon driver on HD4350. What's up with that?

For gentoo libvdpau is a mesa dependency if you want to use radeon + vdpau. So yes: The flash bug should be fixed for the free radeon driver, too.