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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:34:37 +0100
From:      David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd@dreamchaser.org
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: after youtube .swf, black xterm text => transparent
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I mean right click on the youtube image, open the flash properties and
untick the hardware acceleration setting :-)


2012/11/22 David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>

> Do you have a nvidia card ?
>
> If yes right click on the youtube image and disable hardware acceleration,
> it will probably solve it (solved for me)
>
>
> 2012/11/21 Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
>
>> After doing a number of port upgrades to try to get firefox 16 to play
>> youtube audio again (still doesn't), I now see that when I put an xterm
>> window over a particular portion of the display, the black areas on the
>> xterm are transparent, and are showing a portion of a youtube page
>> which is no longer playing but which is still open on either a visible
>> or a non-visible (i.e. not the current) tab.
>>
>> The image is from the end of the following page:
>>
>>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHuYmhY-5-g
>>
>> and the video content is
>>   https://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/watch_as3-vfl1ubMZd.swf
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this problem?
>>
>> Hmm... this is weird.  If I iconify everything except a couple of
>> xterms, xwininfo clicked on the region where the image *was*, which now
>> has only the wm (xfce4) background, the xwininfo gives the window id
>> for the background.
>>
>> This is particularly noticeable in the xfce terminal emulator, 0.4.8,
>> as it comes up with an entirely black background.
>>
>> Gimp, firefox and thunderbird windows don't have the problem, nor does the
>> wm header.
>>
>> I'm guessing this is a result of using the XVideo extension, and not using
>> opengl in the wm, or something like that, based on this article:
>>
>>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_video_extension
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on this and how to prevent it?
>>
>> p.s.  I can't seem to find how to tell what options a port is installed
>> with, and what the defaults are.  I know it's there somewhere...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
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> --
> Demelier David
>



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Demelier David



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