YouTube videos have a red tint

Question

Since yesterday, all YouTube videos have a red / pink tint. Vimeo and other video sites are working.

It seems strange that it's only on YouTube, but since other people I asked don't have this problem, I think it's a Flash plugin problem.

It does this on all my browsers.

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This thread has an extensive discussion (and some workarounds) on this very topic: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1698956
By the way, I've made a list of all the fixes and how to apply them: webupd8.org/2011/03/fix-pinkred-youtube-videos-bug-using.html ... hopefully it helps...
@AlinAndrei I don't know why fix 1 should work. And, at least for me, it doesn't. Fix 3 works, but resurrects an old bug that was fixed by getting gpu acceleration to work. I didn't try #4 because I'm bored with flash already.

Dennis · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-04 13:53:19Z

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Which by the way this is a fantastic site to have in your feed reader.

answered Mar 4 '11 at 13:53

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tnx. activating HTML5 worked for me – solomongaby Mar 4 '11 at 16:05

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It does't work for me: Not all youtube videos can be played in the html5 beta, some still use flash. – Stefano Palazzo♦ Mar 4 '11 at 19:52

nerdy_kid · Answer 2 · 2011-04-27 01:08:02Z

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Disable hardware acceleration in flash. Normally, this is done by finding a flash object, right clicking it and unchecking hardware acceleration.

answered Apr 27 '11 at 1:08

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