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lardon

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 268

Youtube videos taking up 80-100% cpu

Hi there,

Flash videos (with the propietary adobe plugin) take up most of my cpu, even though mplayer can play much bigger videos without even reaching 10%. Is there a way to configure the flash player to avoid this problem? I'm using an old radeon card (Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]) with the open source "radeon" driver.

bluewind

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-07-13

Posts: 172

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Re: Youtube videos taking up 80-100% cpu

If you use firefox:
Greasemonkey + http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24999

This will play youtube vids with the mplayerplugin.

lardon

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 268

Re: Youtube videos taking up 80-100% cpu

Thanks! Although something a bit more general (youtube isn't the sole video provider on the web...) would be nice.

Lord Illidan

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From: Malta

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 248

Re: Youtube videos taking up 80-100% cpu

Download them and play them with mplayer? There are firefox extensions that can d/l most flash videos from most sites on the web.

lardon

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 268

Re: Youtube videos taking up 80-100% cpu

Download them and play them with mplayer? There are firefox extensions that can d/l most flash videos from most sites on the web.

Not very user-friendly...