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After last weeks flash update Hulu desktop no longer works on my Dell laptop though it still works on my HP Desktop. Here's what CLI tells me on the Dell:



Inspiron-1564:~$ huludesktop
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I tried: sudo apt-get install libvdpau_nvidia.so but got E: Unable to locate package libvdpau_nvidia.so and E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libvdpau_nvidia.so'



Hulu does work through the browser and through XBMC. XBMC just doesn't seem to match the video quality of the Hulu Desktop.



I don't really know why a nvidia.so is needed for my Intel graphics that comes on Dell Insiron 1564's. anyway. So, do you guys have a solution?


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The issue is with the most recent releases of Flash into the repos. The solution that worked for me was to download a previous version of Flash from Adobe's archived versions, in particular 11.1.102.62:



http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_11.1.102.62_archive.zip



Found here:



http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html



Simply extract and drill down until you find your distro (for me 11_1r102_62_64bit/flashplayer11_1r102_62_linux.x86_64) and copy the libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and then point Hulu there in ~.huludesktop.



flash_location = /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so


Good luck and Good watching!


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