847068 - Flash on Linux: some videos show in wrong colors (only with hardware acceleration enabled?)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(External Software Affecting Firefox Graveyard :: Flash (Adobe), defect, P5)

Description

[Nobs Wolf]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130215130331

Steps to reproduce:

viewing videos in embedded player


Actual results:

some of them show correctly, some of them show wrong colors just like RGB rotated to BGR

E.g. this is wrong:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnM7xuhzjWY#!

it show correctly in another browser like Chrome

E.g. this is correct 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTLmBBr3blE


Expected results:

showing all videos in correct colors

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

The first video does not play using HTML5 <video>.

Comment 2

[Nobs Wolf]

I think HTML5 is active here and the video does play, just in wrong colors.

Did you see the two chars at the end of the URL? For some reason they are not part of the link. Please try cut'n'paste.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

There is a “#”, so it probably does not change anything.

Comment 4

[Nobs Wolf]

I didn't know Youtube URL contains comments ;-) But you are right: This URL works as linked.

This video runs now in v19.0.2 but leads to very heavy CPU load.


The old-style Flash-Player Videos still have the color bug:

This one is still in wrong colors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlG-NDTMg40

The colors are correct after you deactivate hardware accelleration in Flash-Player. You need to restart the URL (not only the player) to see the effect.

Comment 5

[[:Aleksej]]

(In reply to Emil Obermayr from comment #4)
> I didn't know Youtube URL contains comments ;-) But you are right: This URL
> works as linked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier

Comment 6

[[:Aleksej]]

(assuming it's the Adobe Flash Player plug-in)

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm confused by this report. Is the takeaway from the comments here that there is a color bug only with Flash on Linux when hardware acceleration is enabled?

Comment 8

[Nobs Wolf]

@Benjamin:

At first I just noticed that there are several videos play in wrong colors while others are correct.

I am still not sure about the root cause of the error. I's say it would be a good thing to figure this out.

I just noticed that the first error-example I gave now plays correctly. This one plays in HTML5-mode. Apart from updating to FF v19.0.2 I didn't change anything.

While some other videos (using the flash plugin) are still wrong while using the hardware acceleration in the flashplayer's settings.

This is not related to the player. All videos run perfectly using hardware-accelleration in other browsers like Chrome.

I can give you every information about my system (e.g. Debian 6 OS and GeForce 8600 GTS graphics), but I can't do the testing in the firefox source. While searching the web you can find other users with the same problem.

Comment 9

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Given the current priorities of the plugin team, it is unlikely that we will have time to look at this bug.

Comment 10

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm closing a lot of bugs which are filed as Adobe Flash bugs which are either irrelevant, not actionable, or not serious enough to track in the Mozilla bug tracker. For the most part, Flash bugs should be filed in Adobe bugbase, and we'll only track a few highly-critical issues in the Mozilla tracker.