[solved with some workarounds] painfully slow flash player

v43 · 2011-02-13 16:05:18

is there something i can do about it?

i've got a very old laptop. pentium III M 1.2 GHz. that was enough power to run flash videos from YT and others quite smoothly in win xp. not at high resolution, or full screen, but enough for the standard web format.
in linux the framerate is so low.. one can't see a thing!
why??

Last edited by v43 (2011-02-15 12:40:37)

karol · 2011-02-13 16:31:22

Try to download the movies and run them from your hard drive. Pick the lower quality, many movies are 360p by default, but are also available as 240p.
I have a P4@2GHz and flash videos max out my cpu.

Cape · 2011-02-14 13:15:11

Yep, and you can immagine the effort that adobe is putting into linux flashplugin.
Best solution would be to switch browser (chromium is pretty fast and has a built-in flash plugin) or use lightspark.
Also i remember that someone made a script to "wrap" flash videos into mplayer.

And of course, you can always open the streams from your /tmp directory (where flashplugin temporary stores them)

DKnight · 2011-02-14 13:20:42

Have you tried the youtube html5 version?
http://www.youtube.com/html5

archman-cro · 2011-02-14 13:26:09

Cape wrote:

Also i remember that someone made a script to "wrap" flash videos into mplayer.

I use the Conkeror web browser with a get_flash_videos script from AUR. That way I map a keybinding to start the script, which starts SMPlayer when it starts downloading. Fully supports YouTube and many other sites I've tried. There's rare occasions when it doesn't work.

karol · 2011-02-14 15:16:23

DKnight wrote:

Have you tried the youtube html5 version?
http://www.youtube.com/html5

Not every video is available as html5.

Cape wrote:

And of course, you can always open the streams from your /tmp directory (where flashplugin temporary stores them)

I think they recently switched the setup:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 92#p850392
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113470

Mr.Elendig · 2011-02-14 15:53:51

Sadly, flash is buggy as heck and semi-broken on *nix (on windows too really), for youtube, I recomend using youtube-dl or similar together with mplayer. With that combo I can watch 720p youtube videos on my 1.4ghz pentium-m, while with flash I get framedropp even on 480p in fullscreen....

flamelab · 2011-02-14 16:41:59

Or you use your Nvidia card (desktop or laptop) and have acceleration through VDPAU

ChoK · 2011-02-14 17:15:06

vlc or minitube can help you they can read the video directly if you paste the youtube link

v43 · 2011-02-14 21:06:47

YT works great with vlc! never thought of trying before

i'll download the flash files from the incompatible sites

thank you all guys!!!

theapodan · 2011-02-16 13:33:50

Just some insight: I have a similar laptop (1.13 Ghz) and find that the 2.6.32 kernel series performs better, particularly with flash content.

You might try installing the kernel26-lts package and boot with the older kernel.

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