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psychok9
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March 31, 2009
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Flash Player still slow on Linux

  • March 31, 2009
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I've tried, with my hi-configuration pc, last beta flash player amd64 version, on last Jaunty Ubuntu 9.04 with last nVidia driver 180.37 and with Direct rendering enabled... but still very slow (with HD videos, worse with fullscreen mode) VS Windows Vista platform on the same machine. I tried to uncheck and recheck "hardware acceleration" on Flash Player 10 settings box without see any difference (if don't work, why is present a box?).
With some player (mplayer/smplayer for example) I can see without performance problems Full-HD videos... but with Flash Player, HDReady videos is "slow and choopy"...

Can I hope better performance on Linux for the future?
Thank you much and sorry for my english!
Intel Q6600 2.4GHz, Asus P5Q Deluxe, 4Gb DDR2, nVidia 8800 GT AMP!,
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    psychok9Author
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    May 3, 2009

    I've found another problem:

    On Fullscreen mode, often Flash it gets unusable (button don't work correctly) and the video playing very slow 1fps/~

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    andy16666
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    October 9, 2009

    I am using a very fast computer: Phenom quad-core 2.6GHz with an NVidia GeForce 8800GT. I notice a number of issues with flash 10 performance on this platform. For one, it's barely fast enough to play the Youtube HD video windows and not fast enough to play anything but traditional low def youtube FullScreen. The player doesn't thread at all so it relies soley on the clock speed of the machine. And as another poster said, the hardware acceleration box doesn't really seem to do anything.

    To some degree HD video is going to be a CPU hog...but this performance is far worse than what flash gets on the same machine on windows. That is the first issue. The second issue is that the player really needs to be threaded. Sure, some systems have the power to decode high res x264 with a single core. But there is no point...it's like lifting heavy things with one finger just to show how strong you are. Linux supports threads and the vast majority of machines have multiple cores, so use them! To release a player with such an obvious deficiency is simply lazy programming and design.

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