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LordChaos73

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Registered: 2008-11-11

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[SOLVED] Vaio Intel graphics, choppy full screen flash

Hi,

I'm using arch64 on a Vaio VGN-BZ12XN equipped with Intel graphics:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

Everything works fine, except when I try to watch a flash video full screen (e.g. this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk&feature=aso), playback is very choppy or I just see a grey screen. Disabling flash hardware acceleration doesn't help.
I also tried the Flash 10.2 beta (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html), unfortunately that that doesn't change anything either.

The following more or less relevant packages are installed:

xorg-server 1.9.2-2
intel-dri 7.9.0.git20101207-2
xf86-video-intel 2.13.0-4
xf86-video-vesa
xf86-video-fbdev
xf86-input-evdev

Any pointers ?

Cheers,

Eric

Last edited by LordChaos73 (2010-12-20 23:07:32)

stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Vaio Intel graphics, choppy full screen flash

I'm not sure... Is there anything surprising in having choppy fullscreen flash videos?

It's working decently here (below 1080p) now that I have a Core i3 3.2 GHz though. It's the power of your CPU that matters, since there is no hardware video acceleration.

LordChaos73

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Re: [SOLVED] Vaio Intel graphics, choppy full screen flash

Well,

It is kinda surprising since I can watch full screen flash 720p videos with no issues at all using Fedora, Ubuntu and other distro's. Not with Arch though. Not even 480p or lower in full screen.

Last edited by LordChaos73 (2010-12-20 22:37:17)

jollysnowman

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Registered: 2010-12-08

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Re: [SOLVED] Vaio Intel graphics, choppy full screen flash

I have this same problem. Playing Flash in fullscreen in Arch is a lot worse than in CrunchBang on the same computer.

LordChaos73

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Re: [SOLVED] Vaio Intel graphics, choppy full screen flash

Apparently I missed some important 32-bit libraries, I guess not having lib32-intel-dri installed was an issue. Seems to work fine now.

sudo pacman -S lib32-intel-dri lib32-alsa-plugins

LordChaos73

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Re: [SOLVED] Vaio Intel graphics, choppy full screen flash

Unfortunately, Kwin crashes frequently now when switching between full screen mode and windowed mode 

LordChaos73

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Re: [SOLVED] Vaio Intel graphics, choppy full screen flash

UPDATE: kwin only crashes when I use Chromium, not when using Firefox.