Public bug reported: With Flash 11 current version and package, Adobe stripped out all the experimental accelerated rendering support for NVIDIA ION and other NVIDIA chipsets. While Youtube will happily roll back to software accel for NVIDIA users, iPlayer won't. Results seen are.... Video compressed, then tries to expand... then freezes completely, then iPlayer will not play out video at all - but no issues with audio.
Effectively, iPlayer is completely unusable if on Intel Atom+NVIDIA equipment running Ubuntu 10.04 and Flash 11. This is a massive regression and dealbreaker for British Ubuntu users. The BBC recently updated their playback client, relying on Stage 3D logic to present the transport controls as an overlay - interacting with issues in the Linux version of Flash 11; Windows and Mac have this acceleration logic, according to their own release notes. Intel chipsets (reliant on software) are perfectly OK. Accelerated rendering WAS available in Flash 10.3 and the beta versions of Flash 11. The BBC also now stipulate that Flash 10.1 is the minimum version required to play content on iPlayer - the only backout Force Install option offered is Flash 10.0.42 or thereabouts. Please could you arrange packaging of Adobe Flash 10.3 - http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/completion/?installer=Flash_Player_10_for_other_Linux_(.tar.gz) .. so that a functional backward option is available? This issue also may help with issues on 4OD as well. Thanks My kit - Lenovo Ideapad S12, Ubuntu 10.04LTS with all updates. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886302 Title: [needs-packaging] - Adobe Flash 10.3.183.10 - as Flash 11 current breaks BBC iPlayer for NVIDIA ION-equipped netbooks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/886302/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
