Linux mint locks up on flash video

Lester Waltz lwaltz at 91pcs.com
Sat Mar 9 11:49:13 MST 2013


That link in Firefox locks up. I loaded Google Chrome and copied the link
into it and watched the video error free. Firefox had adobe 11,2,202,273
and Chrome had Adobe 11,6,602,171.
Lester Waltz

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> If it is hardware acceleration that is causing the lockups then try
> turning off hardware acceleration in flash's settings.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 03/08/2013 12:26 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>
>> I'd suspect the drivers.  Modern flash poop uses hardware acceleration
>> for decoding.  If it's crashing when doing that, it's driver, or a bad
>> gpu (works, but dies when using gl/codec accel).
>>
>> What kind of video card, drivers, versions?
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On 03/07/2013 01:38 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On my Linux Mint 13 system with all the latest updates installed,
>>> the following video locks up. (Also some other videos lock up.)
>>>
>>> http://video.christianpost.**com/the-bible-mark-burnett-**
>>> and-roma-downey-interview-**4595/<http://video.christianpost.com/the-bible-mark-burnett-and-roma-downey-interview-4595/>
>>>
>>>
>>> What can I do to get this fixed?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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