Hi all,

Back from another land of upgrades, pacman -Syu causing more fun and games 🙂 Turns out my system, running on Gnome 3.2 (fallback) now crashes or hangs for 2 minutes when i open youtube, or try and play a video on iplayer.

Thinking it could be a multitude of problems, I added a new account, tried that, same issue, checked drivers, did another pacman -Syu day later, etc. After much scouring:

If your Arch or Linux install in general is freezing when you try and play anything flash or go on a flash website, do a “cat /etc/adobe/mms.cfg”. If you see:

[code]#Hardware video decoding
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1[/code]

Then we have a winner. Simply “sudo nano /etc/adobe/mms.cfg”, change it to =0 instead, logout/login and try again. This appears to fix a bug in Adobe 64-bit that ocurs when it tries to use your graphics card to offload some of the video rendering.

Happy hunting,

Sam