Flash video plays in the upper left and really small

[Silverlock]

Archived Flash Player versions for developers

Using an older version of the player is a work around and not a fix. I wish I could say I hoped for an updated version of the deb sometime soon, but I'm not holding my breath.

[PikaSonic]

I had the same problem and I figured out a way to make it stop. At least until Boxee updates with better support for the new Flash Player anyways. Heres what you have to do:

1. Go to any flash video in a browser and right click it and select settings.
2. Make sure the left most tab with a monitor icon (the display tab) is selected.
3. Uncheck the box next to "Enable Hardware Acceleration"
4. You may need to log out and log back in again if your screen still looks funny.
5. Return to Boxee and enjoy your YouTube videos.

This worked for me on Ubuntu 10.10 after an upgrade to Flash 10.2. I discovered that YouTube was acting weird on Boxee when I enabled Hardware Acceleration on Flash. Disabling Hardware Acceleration in Flash fixed my issue. Let's hope a new version of Boxee comes out to address this problem so you do not need to do this. Hope this helps.

[Silverlock]

Good catch PikaSonic, thanks. Even with h/w acceleration turned off, 10.2 seems to be a bit more responsive than 10.1. CityTv is a case in point. With 10.1, the framerate on their flash videos tended to drop very low and the video was very jerky. With 10.2, it's staying up around 60fps and the video is very smooth. I'm impressed. Naturally, the CPU usage is still very high, and I'm still looking forward to seeing Boxee work with Flash h/w acceleration.

[dsqzsw]

Hi, I am newbie here.Found this post an excellent one. I have seen lot of post. But a post like this rarely found. Can't install flash player.
Thanks

[TylerSontag]

Hey all, having the same problem in 10.04 recently (so with the flash update)

I can verify that turning off hardware acceleration fixed the problem

[flammenwurfer]

Hey all, having the same problem in 10.04 recently (so with the flash update)

I can verify that turning off hardware acceleration fixed the problem

Can you clarify what you mean by turning off hardware acceleration? I run completely from a command line and boot directly to boxee, not through a gui. Any idea how to turn hardware acceleration off form the command line? Also, will I run into problems turning hardware acceleration off with an Atom 330/ION system?

[Silverlock]

You're going to have to find some way to get Firefox started so that you can get at the flash player that way. As to performance, it's no worse (and seems to me to be slightly better) than 10.1, which didn't know about VDPAU at all.

[rifleman]

Disabling HW acceleration worked for me. I had to install a browser (firefox) to do it.

[Pilsner_92]

the hw-acceleration work around would be a good answer but, in ubuntu 10.10 the settings tab is disabled in flash player, I tried the flash-aid add-on for firefox, and still cannot disable hw acceleration.

Reinstalling a older version of flashplayer is not an option on ubuntu as uninstalling flash uninstalls boxee defacto, and reinstalling boxee updates to lates available flashplayer, nice one.....

[Pilsner_92]

Ok, if flash settings is disabled by default, and flash-aid does not help. First check "/etc/adobe/mms.cfg" if there are two lines of code in there: OverrideGPUValidation=true
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
comment them out or save as mms.cfg.old and disregard mms.cfg.

Now add, ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates to software sources, and sudo apt-get update. Restart, and update again if neccessary; this will install the latest driver direct from nvidia, not the same as the ubuntu additional drivers tool will guide you too.
Now I can disable hw-acceleration from adobe settings