[flashplayer] how check HW acceleration

nTia89 · 2012-04-06 14:31:10

hi to everybody,

i have flashplayer and an nvidia video card so the HW accell. should be actived

infact the configurations file /etc/adobe/mms.cfg says me that is enabled. ok

how can i check/test if it is really running ???

thanks

karol · 2012-04-06 14:49:38

Right-click on the flash video and select 'Settings' from the menu. A small 'Adobe Flash Player Settings' window will appear. In one of the tabs ('Display' - first one from the left) the option to use HW accel should be checked.

Gusar · 2012-04-06 14:52:27

Actually, to really check what is accelerated (decoding, presentation, or both), you right-click on a youtube video and choose "View video info".

karol · 2012-04-06 15:00:19

Gusar wrote:

Actually, to really check what is accelerated (decoding, presentation, or both), you right-click on a youtube video and choose "View video info".

Ah yes, that was the option I was looking for, but I picked a video from some other site that only embedded the video from YT and it didn't have that option in the menu.
I should have checked at the source, thanks :-)

nTia89 · 2012-04-06 15:43:25

ok thanks

(but) i was meaning about CPU use......no way with that ?

karol · 2012-04-06 16:07:02

nTia89 wrote:

ok thanks
(but) i was meaning about CPU use......no way with that ?

I have no idea what you mean here.

nTia89 · 2012-04-06 16:09:38

for example, check if with HW accell. enabled cpu usage is less than the case with HW accell. disabled

karol · 2012-04-06 16:11:18

Toggle the settings and check what cpu usage htops shows?

nTia89 · 2012-04-06 16:12:30

this is the problem: the cpu usage is the same !

karol · 2012-04-06 16:29:15

nTia89 wrote:

this is the problem: the cpu usage is the same !

Ah, now I get what's the problem.

What does 'View video info' show - is the hw acceleration working?

I've found http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ado … 805-4.html but it's Windows-oriented.

nTia89 · 2012-04-06 19:06:44

karol wrote:

nTia89 wrote:
this is the problem: the cpu usage is the same !
Ah, now I get what's the problem.
What does 'View video info' show - is the hw acceleration working?

for non-youtube videos ???

Gusar · 2012-04-06 19:40:32

A particluar player needs to explicitly support hardware decoding. The youtube player does, any other player may or may not.

nTia89 · 2012-04-07 10:33:04

so, because HW accell. is used is mandatory the flash app side support ?

nTia89 · 2012-04-07 13:23:09

i've done some test (two 1080p videos from youtube) :
with HW accel. enabled i get:
- CPU is 0.00 0.07 0.06
- GPU temp grow of 2 degree
without HW accel. i get:
- CPU is 0.15 0.07 0.06
- GPU temp grow of 2 degree

are these results reliable ???

PS: with HW accel. disabled i get video with BGR instead RGB , so red become blue and blue become red ..... =0

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