Friday, February 18, 2011

Ubuntu recipes - Flash video freezes in full-screen mode? Here's the solution...

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Latitude D620, and discovered a weird problem. Streaming Flash video would freeze when in full-screen mode. A quick Google search gave me this ...

Do the following in terminal,
  1. sudo mkdir /etc/adobe
  2. echo "OverrideGPUValidation=true" > ~/mms.cfg
  3. sudo mv ~/mms.cfg /etc/adobe
Ref: http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/11/fix-youtube-video-freeze-while-in-full.html

"OverrideGPUValidation=true" instructs Flash to skip GPU validity checks, and thus 'boosts' Flash performance. I am not entirely sure about the performance 'boost', but the full-screen freeze issue is gone! I can now see the Cricket World Cup in full screen mode!! :)

More about the mms.cfg file can be found here.

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