One other factor might be video hardware acceleration. Of those who have Shockwave working, are you also running VHA?? 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. >