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#1 2009-07-02 13:22:19

SomeGuyDude
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Registered: 2008-10-09
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Flash absolutely crushes my CPU

Is there any version of a flash player that won't cause my CPU to spike to 100% usage? I'm on a friggin' C2D proc with Arch64 and if I open up a site that uses flash for media (Break.com, Huffington Post, CNN), my CPU percentage flies north, the proc temp goes from 40C to 74C and the browser freezes. Is one of the non-Adobe flash packages better at this?


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#2 2009-07-02 13:28:55

ataraxia
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Re: Flash absolutely crushes my CPU

This started happening for me when Flash got to version 10. It's just as bad on Macs, too. None of the Flash clones actually work for me.

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#3 2009-07-02 23:45:46

doorknob60
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Registered: 2008-09-29
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Re: Flash absolutely crushes my CPU

For youtube here's two greasemonkey scripts that will let you use mplayer or any other plugin (totem, vlc, etc) to watch your Youtube videos instead of the flash player.

For the regular youtube site: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38074 (you can change the options by editing the script, I don't like some of the defaults)

For youtube videos embedded on other sites: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46219

It works pretty well, although it doesn't solve all problems like on other sites. There might be similar scripts for other sites though.

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#4 2009-07-07 02:32:36

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Re: Flash absolutely crushes my CPU

Same problem here.

From what I understand flash is all CPU and doesn't use the GPU at all. So, a lot of use is expected. However, after I installed kernel 2.6.30 flash became a problem. Before, I'd be at 60% CPU with video default size and full screen would be no problem. Now, CPU still at %60 at default video size and if I stretch the video window say half the screen size the CPU go's to %90. Then if I make it full screen CPU at 100%-----> with full screen freezes and taring and choppy.

The move to adobe flash 9->10 was no problem. Just a small quality hit.

The swfdec works for youtube but not Hulu or Revision3. Swfdec is only up to 8 sold and a bit of flash 9. Unfortunately, most sites use flash10.

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#5 2009-07-08 07:59:44

lolilolicon
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Registered: 2009-03-05
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Re: Flash absolutely crushes my CPU

Flash definitely sucks.
I've got problems uploading files using the flash interface which is the only way the site provides.
Sometimes firefox freezes while uploading. Sometimes it comes back to itself when done, sometimes I have to kill firefox and restart it.

Last night I left a page open where I got a flash music player paused, and I found the sound dead plus a real hot machine in the morning.

That's insane.

BTW, flashplugin is not only buggy but huge...

$ pacman -Qi flashplugin
Download Size  : 6752.64 K
Installed Size : 12964.00 K

$ pacman -Qi firefox
Download Size  : 1003.86 K
Installed Size : 3568.00 K

All those issues! Is flash even usable?!

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#6 2009-07-09 04:50:31

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Re: Flash absolutely crushes my CPU

I just wish web sites would not jump on the new Flash release as soon as it comes out. If say hulu and revision3 would just use flash 8 or 9 all would be well. Just look at youtube... comes in clear for me. I bet there is really no noticeable different is quality between flash 8 and 10 looks the same to me. All I can see is that flash 10 sucks and flash 8 works.

It seems the coding of the web page make a differences too. In Revision3 if I full screen a video the picture flickers in and out with some strange buttons and parts of the web page being displayed in the background. I bet if they took all that web2.0 crap out of the web page it would play the video a lot better.

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