On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > On 03/29 09:06 , Dan Armbrust wrote: >> But if you want to watch full-screen online flash video - the more >> power the better - this is funny only because it is so true >> >> http://xkcd.com/619/ >> >> The hoverover tooltip even specifically mentions the intel driver :-) > > How much does the video card affect Flash playback? I would have thought it > was a largely CPU-bound problem, but I guess it depends on how much the > implementation uses the X video hooks. Hardware decoding of Flash H.264 streams is coming. Slowly. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10.1_hardware_acceleration.html Only supports Windows today. If it ever works on Linux, it seems likely that it will use VDPAU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU But first, ATI and Intel would probably have to agree to support it. > > On a slightly unrelated issue; does anyone else find Flash on Linux crashes > their browser more than it does on Windows? org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > True for me... but mainly on my 64 bit system. The 32 bit installs seem fairly stable (finally)