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finferflu

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Swfdec goodness :D

Wow, I've just found out about Swfdec and I have to say it beats Flash in performance. Videos used to lag a lot with the latest plugin, but swfdec plays them flawlessly. The only problem I can see so far is that switching tabs while playing videos almost freezes the browser. Not such a big deal. I'm impressed, really

The version in the repos is out of date, I hope they update it soon
If you haven't yet, just give it a try, it's really worth it

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skottish

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

Updating to 0.6.0 requires some software that's currently only in release candidate state. With that being said, I'm running 0.6.0 with glib2 2.15.6 and libsoup 2.3.4. I'm doing this using the system FFmpeg and not gstreamer. Google video works with 0.6.0 as well as a bunch of other sites. This version is a cpu hog, much more than 0.5.5, but it may have something to do with the way I have my system setup (I didn't upgrade anything the requires glib2 except libsoup).

Last edited by skottish (2008-03-03 17:54:56)

finferflu

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

Yeah, I've been testing swfdec on other sites, and I have to say its performance is good only on Youtube. But that's all the Flash I use. I really hope the new version's problems reside on your config, skottish
I'm very tempted to stay with swfdec, even though I might run in some unpleasant problems with unsupported sites...

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skottish

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

I really hope the new version's problems reside on your config, skottish

Me too. We'll find out soon enough. Gnome 2.22 is due on the 12th, and all the final packages are due on the 10th. I knew that upgrading glib2 like this would probably cause problems, but hey, I wanted the new swfdec!

peets

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

weird, for me swfdec is slower than flash. And starting yesterday, it crashed firefox and mpd consistently (which is why I got rid of flash in the first place --I thought swfdec had fixed this)

It's still good to have an all-free-software setup. It's a good project. But I hope flash stops being used on websites... there are very few cases where it's actually useful.

peart

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

... But I hope flash stops being used on websites... there are very few cases where it's actually useful.

Hey, if it weren't for Flash, I'd have no way of knowing if the fans in my laptop still work!  That's at least one great use...

finferflu

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

Yeah I hope Flash dies soon as well
I have noticed that its support is especially bad on Linux. I watched a couple of videos from the university computer yesterday, which runs Windows, and everything was light and fast.

[rant]
Mr Stallman talks a lot about freedom and not using proprietary software, but when it comes to things like Flash I can't see any free alternative (apart from Flash clones). No wonder Flash dominates the "market".
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schivmeister

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

Unfortunately for me, I don't even find myself visiting YouTube once a month. There are still many sites which uses Flash 9 that don't work with swfdec.

Anyway both gnash and swfdec have been improving steadily.

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Reasons

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Registered: 2007-11-04

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

Where would I get libsoup as in which repo is it in?

skottish

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

Well, the new version is going to be in the repos in the next few days or so. It was uploaded today to Gnomes FTP servers, as well as just about everything for Gnome 2.22. For some reason though, glib2 2.16 was pulled out the tree between this morning and this evening, and almost everything Gnome depends on it. Anyway, if you can wait a few days it will magically appear in Arch.

jolinfire

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

Let's say a week. And I hope packages will be going first in testing, because of the PITA (sorry) pulse audio layer !

Rasi

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

hmm... i totally cant agree... swfdec is awfully slow here, like a slideshow.. flashplugin works fine tho...

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

I'm just install swfdec 6.2, overall it feels faster than flash though it looks like it takes a bit more processing power. That might be because it's using both cores, who knows? I don't use flash that much so I'm not picky.

skottish

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

I'm just install swfdec 6.2, overall it feels faster than flash though it looks like it takes a bit more processing power. That might be because it's using both cores, who knows? I don't use flash that much so I'm not picky.

6.2? 6.4 came yesterday! SLACKER!!!!

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/s … 01321.html

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fwojciec

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Re: Swfdec goodness :D

swfdec-0.6.4-1-x86_64
Wow.  Still, arguably, a tad high on the cpu usage but a major improvement over the previous version and it played all the videos I tried with perfect smoothness/quality.