Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

Regression in flash plugin >= 11.2.x

Bug #1017153 reported by Henrik S. on 2012-06-24

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I experience choppy video and audio in the flash player shipped with ubuntu precise (11.2.202.236ubuntu0). I am using the 64-bit version of the plugin.

I investigated this further by downloading and installing older builds of the flash plugin and installed them manually. I found that the problem persisted across all the 11.2.x builds, however downgrading to 11.1.102.63 remedied the issue and video playback using this plugin results in smooth audio and video. Please note that this happens regardless of quality setting. For this reason I conclude it is a regression introduced in 11.2.

You might want to enable users to downgrade to this version easier. Offer the old version for download as well until Adobe manages to fix this issue.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-06-30:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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MenTaLguY (mental-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2012-07-24:

Also affected, with the 32-bit version.

adobe-flashplugin:
  Installed: 11.2.202.236-0precise1
  Candidate: 11.2.202.236-0precise1
  Version table:
*** 11.2.202.236-0precise1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Rick Reznicsek (rreznicsek11) on 2013-02-06

description:

updated

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote on 2013-02-14:

old 11.1.102.63 version flashplugin deb package (32-bit) for testing Edit (6.1 MiB, application/x-debian-package)

Hi Henrik S. and MenTaLguY (mental),

Could you test if choppy video and audio problems occurs in the latest flash player 11.2.202.270 ?

Btw, where you get old 11.1.102.63 version of flashplugin? I've found 11.1.102.63 version at http://://mirror.vlfiles.ru/archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/ - attaching 32-bit deb package to this bugreport :)

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Henrik S. (henrik-hw0) wrote on 2013-02-14:

I can't do a differential since my old lenovo died. it was on that computer i experienced the problem. it had an old gma 965 mobile (?) intel chipset which supported at most opengl 2.1 and had no transform&lighting capabilities it seemed.
right now i'm on a lenovo edge e530 with a intel ivy bridge chipset.

what i can say is that i do not experience problems with flash on my current computer, but if that is due to higher performance or better hardware capabilities that's hard to say. there might still be a performance regression without it being noticeable to the naked eye. you will have to run cpu utilization tests to confirm.

specs for new box:
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.0
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30

flash plugin at the moment:
Architecture: amd64
Version: 11.2.202.262-0quantal1

old versions of flash player can be obtained here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html