At Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:41:35 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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? I am able to watch 1/2 hour TV shows with flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-release from Adobe's repo in Firefox (firefox-3.6.13-2.el5.centos), on my i686 IBM ThinkPad X31 laptop (which has 512Meg of memory and a 1700MHz, Pentium M processor), using CentOS 5.5. The CPU does get hot (the fan fires up sometimes). Oh, I use a *very* lightweight X11 setup: I don't use GNome or KDE or any sort of 'Desktop Manager' system at all. Just FVWM in MWM mode. Virtually NO 'eye candy' at all. My system boots to runlevel 3 and I fire up X11 from my login. I have made no attempt to watch longer videos with flash. I do watch 3-5 minute music videos all the time, but I use mplayer for those (even the FLV files I have downloaded from YouTube). > > > Thanks. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments