[Mageia-dev] Fwd: [VDPAU] [PATCH] Implement workarounds for Adobe Flash bugs

Thu Jul 26 14:15:26 CEST 2012

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Glen Ogilvie at 24/07/12 11:06 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 03/05/12 17:00 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Anssi Hannula at 03/05/12 15:37 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>> I think we should probably apply the below libvdpau workaround for Adobe
+>>>>> Flash issues, for both mga2 and mga1, WDYT?
+>>>>
+>>>> Sounds like a good idea. I tend to trust Stephen's work generally, even
+>>>> if I don't know much about the VDPAU issues specifically.
+>>>
+>>> Don't think these were ever pushed.
+>>>
+>>> I just tested this patch on a machine that is half built here. It worked
+>>> OK provided you also include the only commit from git master since 0.4.1
+>>> too.
+>>>
+>>> Seemed to work OK for me, but haven't managed to test too much yet.
+>>>
+>>> Col
+>>
+>> Hi Colin,
+>>
+>> Do you happen to have an SRPM or RPM for mageia2 I could test?    I
+>> have a system
+>> that suffers from the problem this patch fixes.
+>
+> You can try the srpm from here:
+>
+> http://colin.guthr.ie/libvdpau-0.4.1-3.1.csg3.src.rpm
+>
+> There may very well be newer updates and releases now, I've not checked.
+>
+> All I did was add the only patch from git master:
+> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau/
+>
+> and then apply the other patch on top.
+>
+> They are both in the srpm.
+
+I've tested the SRPM above it on my system and it resolves the blue
+tint issue.   Thank you.  Hope someone can get this into Mageia
+testing for others to test.
+
+Regards
+Glen Ogilvie
+