Ubuntu – How to get Flash 10.2 RC + Crystal HD for HW accelerated video to work

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I have a netbook with a N450 Atom and a BCM70012 aka Crystal HD card. On Windows 7 I can play HD flash video with very little CPU usage because of the RC of Flash 10.2. I did some reading and saw posts claiming that the Crystal HD card is finally supported by the newer Flash 10.2 RC in Ubuntu but I can't get it to work.

I can confirm that flash 10.2 is loaded and used, and there's even a HW acceleration option that is enabled in the settings but performance is horrible. From what I read, the Crystal HD card is supposed to be enabled on 10.10 by default – I don't know if it is. I tried installing drivers for it in various ways but HD flash video is still a slideshow

So does anyone have it working? If so, how'd you set it up?

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As of tonight, I've been able to successfully have hardware acceleration in Flash Player (youtube 1080p videos running smoothly). I had to:

Checkout and compile the latest crystalhd tree from git (http://git.wilsonet.com/crystalhd.git/)
Download Adobe flash player 10.2 (latest release, it should come as an update if you have flashplugin-installer - if you don't have that, do:
```
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
```
Add the following lines to the /etc/adobe/mms.cfg file (create it if you don't have it already):
```
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1
OverrideGPUValidation=true
```

Hope it helps!

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Flash Optimization

Although they are primarily focused on Firefox, most of the content applies to Chrome as well.

For Firefox users with Flash problems, get these two extensions I develop:

FLASH-AID: remove conflicting flash plugins from Ubuntu Linux systems and install the appropriate version according to system architecture.

FlashVideoReplacer: this extension replaces embedded flash videos with Quicktime or Windows Media Player compatible videos, allowing to watch flash streaming content with a less CPU intensive plugin, like gecko mediaplayer (recommended), gxine, kaffeine, mozplugger, totem, xine, vlc (not recommended).

Ubuntu – Getting flash 10.2 GPU acceleration working

After a bit of research I can answer my own question. The full way to get flash using the an nvidia ion gpu on ubuntu 10.10:

Install the new flash 10.2 beta:

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p2_32bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
tar zxvf flashplayer10_2_p2_32bit_linux_111710.tar.gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/

You may need to also replace flash in other locations if you have installed in multiple places (try using 'locate libflashplayer.so' for a complete list)

Then for gpu support you also need (this was the bit I was missing):

sudo apt-get install libvdpau1

If you also want it working in chrome try:

To verify it is working go to a high-def you-tube video and play it. While it is playing right click and select - video info. You should see "Accelerated Video Rendering" if it has worked.

These instructions worked on my acer revo with a nvidia ion gpu.

Also on my blog with more links: http://decodify.blogspot.com/2010/12/getting-flash-102-beta-gpu-acceleration.html

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