swfdec and youtube (was: Skype core dumps as normal user)

[Sean C. Farley]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:13:13AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Last time I've tried gnash, it didn't work very well (understand: it
>>> didn't play Youtube).  I don't know swfdec, I will try it.  Does it
>>> play videos?
>>
>> swfdec definitely works for YouTube.  Other sites, like spiegel.de,
>> do not work.
>
> I've just tried swfdec with YouTube.  I can hear the video, but the
> screen stays black.  Did you experience a similar problem?

I had to add this to the "Device" section to get swfdec to work on an
Intel-based GPU:
     Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

I found mention of that fix here:
http://vrodic.blogspot.com/2008/01/firefoxmozilla-performance-under.html

It is possible that Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" will also help (instead
of XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps, but it makes the current (v2.1.1) Intel driver
fairly slow.  Other drivers may work with it.

As a side note, if you are running the v2.1.1 Intel driver, OpenGL
applications can lock up X.  I disabled it with: Option "DRI" "false".

Sean
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