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bullanguero89

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Registered: 2009-10-12

Posts: 9

slow motion with flash and full screen

Hi, i have a packerd bell laptop (celeron + 512 ram + Ati x200)  with fluxbox+chromium, and in any webpage with flash when i turned to fullscreen de motion' s speed&quality turned so pooor...

Somebody knows what can i do?

In my Xorg.conf:

        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
 #      Load  "dri2"  
        Load  "glx"   
        Load "drm"    
Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load "synaptics"


  Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
       Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option      "RenderAccel" "on"

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

Flash on linux sucks. Fullscreen flash sucks even more. Doubly so on a weak cpu and graphics.

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

Flash on linux sucks. Fullscreen flash sucks even more. Doubly so on a weak cpu and graphics.

A better way to say this is: if you want to use flash, you will need a laptop with a faster cpu, gpu, and more ram... Going lighter on software is not going to help.

crabman

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Registered: 2010-08-12

Posts: 30

Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

Yep, flash sucks - but there i use a dirty workaround:
The flash video files are stored in /tmp, so i have a little skript that opens all flash videos in vlc:

#!/bin/bash

find /tmp/ -iname "Flash*" | while read file_name
do
vlc $file_name
done

now go to youtube, start a video and pause it, call this little script and watch the video full-screen in vlc.

crabman

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

Yep, flash sucks - but there i use a dirty workaround:
The flash video files are stored in /tmp, so i have a little skript that opens all flash videos in vlc:

#!/bin/bash

find /tmp/ -iname "Flash*" | while read file_name
do
vlc $file_name
done

now go to youtube, start a video and pause it, call this little script and watch the video full-screen in vlc.

crabman

Basically, download the movie and watch it from your hard drive - I'm not sure you will be able to watch smooth HD mp4s with your gear, but your can try.

archman-cro

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-04-04

Posts: 943

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Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

Yep, flash sucks - but there i use a dirty workaround:
The flash video files are stored in /tmp, so i have a little skript that opens all flash videos in vlc:

#!/bin/bash

find /tmp/ -iname "Flash*" | while read file_name
do
vlc $file_name
done

now go to youtube, start a video and pause it, call this little script and watch the video full-screen in vlc.

crabman

This stuff would be cool to implement on some flashblocker, so once you click to load flash, the player opens up and reads the buffered file.

yimm

Member

From: France

Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 106

Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

The flash video files are stored in /tmp, so i have a little skript that opens all flash videos in vlc

Your script has worked for me since few days, but since yesterday, it doesn't work : in /tmp there is no Flash* file when I'm playing a video on youtube by example.
Any ideas?

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

Can't find it again at the moment, but I am pretty sure someone mentioned in another thread that the folder for temporary files got moved from /tmp to somewhere in your Firefox profile with the latest release.

p.s.: it's in ~/.mozilla/<profile>/Cache

Last edited by hokasch (2010-09-17 09:19:17)

yimm

Member

From: France

Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 106

Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

Hm, yes your are right (For me it's /tmp/Cache), but now the name of the Flash file isn't FlashXXXXX, it's a random name.
Hm..

goblinshrimp

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Registered: 2010-10-08

Posts: 1

Re: slow motion with flash and full screen

I have two solution you should try: 1)have a look at archwiky ATI page and follow step by step the instruction to enable KMS (early start); you should edit your xorg.conf as follows:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Radeon X1300"                    
 Driver "radeon"
 Option "ColorTiling" "on"
 Option      "DRI" "on" 
 Option      "DynamicPM" "on"      # Dynamic powersaving.
 Option      "ClockGating" "on"    # Assisting option for powersaving.
 Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"   # EXA should fit most cases.
 Option      "EXAVSync" "on"       # EXAVSync is explained above.
 Option      "DMAForXv" "on"       # Forced option in order to enable Xv overlay.
 Option      "ScalerWidth" "2048"  # That should fix some very rare bugs.
 Option      "EnablePageFlip" "on" # It will not be enabled on R5xx cards.
 Option      "RenderAccel" "on"    # Optional. It should be enabled by default.
 Option      "AccelDFS" "on"       #Optional. See the man page.
EndSection

2)open a video in youtube; go to fullscreen; mouse right click -->settings; disable hardware acceleration.
The first option is preferable, the second is much easier. They both worked for me, I hope one of the two will work for you too. Cheers