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#1 2009-08-15 10:32:55

toketin
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[Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

hi, i've restored my old pc installing on it Archlinux and configuring it to run fairly on an Amd processor of 600mhz, Ram 640mb, Hd 14 giga and Video Card an Asus V7100 (Nvidia) 32mb. But with this video card and also an older model, a Matrox G400 i can't see well youtube's video because i see them stutters and slow. Can you advice me something to solve this issue? Thanks

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#2 2009-08-15 11:09:28

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

Hello toketin!

Can you reach the video quality you would like to see, if you download it and to open locally ?

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#3 2009-08-15 11:36:47

toketin
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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

djszapi wrote:

Hello toketin!

Can you reach the video quality you would like to see, if you download it and to open locally ?

hi Djszapi, thanks for the reply: if i download the video from youtube and then i open it with vlc i see it perfeclty without problem

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#4 2009-08-15 11:44:44

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

How could you try to see it ? Did you try to wait the end of loading, then seeing it ? Does it work so ?

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#5 2009-08-15 11:46:41

toketin
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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

yes  but it was slow so, do you think that with this video card i shouldn't have problem?

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#6 2009-08-15 11:50:17

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

You can test it under other minimal-based distribution, or with arch minimal install ? Did it work earlier, when this was your main PC ?

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#7 2009-08-15 12:06:05

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

i don't remember if before it worked fine, but I had a Matrox g400 video card instead of this Asus

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#8 2009-08-15 13:44:48

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

Ok here's the story you can find in almost any thread related with flash's bad performance in linux: flash for linux sucks, period.

As far as I know it doesn't use any kind of acceleration at all, that is the same as saying that it relies completely on the cpu to do all the hard work, even in a recent machine it will stutter when playing some videos.

When you download the .flv and play it back with vlc then vlc will not be doing all the hard work, at least the part concerning the display of the video will be accelerated by your graphics card and most probably even the decoding part will be better optimized in vlc than in the flash plugin. That is something we all have to live with and we really hope it improves in the future.


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#9 2009-08-15 14:23:11

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

The best solution is simply to play it in vlc/mplayer. VLC can play youtube links directly and there are wrapper scripts/a patch that makes mplayer do the same.


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#10 2009-08-15 19:05:01

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

Wintervenom wrote:

Perhaps you could install Greasemonkey and use Free YouTube, which will use totem-plugin or mplayer-plugin instead of Flash on a number of video sharing services, giving you full acceleration and smooth playback.  (If you're using Opera, you can use it as a UserJS script, but it needs a tiny bit of editing to work.)

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#11 2009-08-16 04:15:52

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

The alternatives to Flash, Gnash and swfdec, should also run much faster than Flash (when they do work). Flash's decoders are _terrible_, woefully inefficient, but Gnash and swfdec use high-quality free software decoders from ffmpeg, etc. (like what VLC uses)

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#12 2009-08-20 09:20:34

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Re: [Solved] slow flash on video card 32mb

ok i've solved in three possibile ways: minitube, totem or vlc. I consider the first the best solution to see youtube's video on own pc smile Thanks to everybody

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