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Streaming Video-artifacts and adobe flash

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P_Dub

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When I had the EVO 4G LTE, there was a developer option for hardware video decoding. Turning it on would cause certain apps(NBA Gametime) and videos when viewing a mobile site would display lots of macroblock corruption or artifacts in the video making it unwatchable. I would have to switch the option off or load the desktop version of a website.

With the m8, I don't seem to have Adobe Flash and can't play videos on many sites when viewing the desktop version. I also can't find the option to turn off hardware video decoding.

Can anyone help with those two issues?
 
Type in ur search helpx.adobe and it'll give u step by step how to install adobe flash for ur phone
 
Thanks for the replys. I downloaded Adobe Flash and it didn't fix the issue. I have the browser setting for flash set to "always." Seems like it is unavailable for anything but the Dolphin browser with a hacked version.

Found how to enable the developer options, actually ticked force 2d gpu rendering(instead of turning it off which was how I fixed this problem on my last phone) and it seems to have improved the video quality a little bit for some services.
 
I use Mozilla firefox . that browser is flash enabled.. But u have to check the box in the browser's menu that says enable desktop.. You'll be able to use flash.. There us also a browser called Flashfox. That is another flash based browser, but again u have to switch the mode to enable desktop
 
Looks like I screwed up my phone a little bit. I uninstalled the flash player I had, and installed the KitKat version. Videos won't even play in NBA Game time. I got some to work over WiFi, so maybe it is/was an app issue. I can view youtube's mobile site and embedded videos from other sites as long as they have a mobile style, but desktop versions of youtube and any sites with embedding give me the black box.


It honestly boils down to the mobile video versions from websites looking like crap. Not just resolution, but there are artifacts like smearing and macroblocks. When viewing the desktop version with flash enabled(on my old phone), there is no quality issue, even on the lower youtube resolutions.

I always thought it was the forced gpu rendering on my old phone that caused it, but that only affected certain apps. It was placebo for this phone.

Playing with my phone while posting this I noticed that flash seems to work sometimes. It seems like it won't activate the plugin unless I have a wifi connection. Once it's activated, I can switch wifi off and the video will still play.

Firefox seems to be working now with flash.

This whole thing is hit and miss.
 
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