At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
One other factor might be video hardware acceleration. Of those who have Shockwave working, are you also running VHA??
On my laptop I have a 'VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY' (according to lspci) and I use the stock CentOS driver:
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" EndSection
On my 64-bit desktop I have a 'VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2)' and also use the stock CentOS driver:
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "vesa" EndSection
And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it plays flash videos just fine there. [*I* have no use for nVidia's drive -- I don't do 3D modeling or video games, etc.]
On 04/03/2011 06:41 PM ken wrote:
For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the "try this!" and "try that!" method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working.
Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes long. However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%, sometimes even 100%! If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%. (For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)
So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.
What's everyone else's experience with this? Does anyone have a setup where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in their editor alongside it at the same time? If so, would you be open to explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this works so well?
Thanks.
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