Comments on: What’s up with Linux and Mac Flash performance? http://www.roytanck.com/2008/11/18/whats-up-with-linux-and-mac-flash-performance/ Fascinated by new technology Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Roy http://www.roytanck.com/2008/11/18/whats-up-with-linux-and-mac-flash-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-69673 Roy Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:53:25 +0000 http://www.roytanck.com/?p=699#comment-69673 Things are looking up though, with Flash 10.1 supporting hardware acceleration of Flash video. Without hardware support even a quicktime or avi 1080p requires a lot of cpu power, let alone within a browser plugin. Flash isn't so bad, and Adobe seems to working on improvements for Linux and Mac. Let's hope they bridge the gap before html5 takes over :). Things are looking up though, with Flash 10.1 supporting hardware acceleration of Flash video. Without hardware support even a quicktime or avi 1080p requires a lot of cpu power, let alone within a browser plugin. Flash isn’t so bad, and Adobe seems to working on improvements for Linux and Mac. Let’s hope they bridge the gap before html5 takes over :) .

]]> By: Pod http://www.roytanck.com/2008/11/18/whats-up-with-linux-and-mac-flash-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-69649 Pod Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:31:23 +0000 http://www.roytanck.com/?p=699#comment-69649 Yep. Not only that, I've seen quadcore G5 Macs with decent video cards brought to their knees trying to play HD flash video. This turkey of a standard needs to be abandoned but so many webvertisements use it we're probably stuck with it. It's lousy with a capital L. Just now I played the Robin Moore video on youtube "Performance" in HD and it was running with 129% CPU utilization on a 2.5 ghz dual G5 with Safari 4.0.4 and while the audio was rock solid, the video was laughably slow, dropping frames and stuttering to the point that it was still trying to display frames from earlier in the video long after the music actually ended. Pathetic. There was a thread on this over at macnn.com but since the G5 and PPC architecture is abandoned at this point it's doubtful it will ever be fixed. Yep. Not only that, I’ve seen quadcore G5 Macs with decent video cards brought to their knees trying
to play HD flash video. This turkey of a standard needs to be abandoned but so many webvertisements
use it we’re probably stuck with it. It’s lousy with a capital L. Just now I played the Robin Moore video on
youtube “Performance” in HD and it was running with 129% CPU utilization on a 2.5 ghz dual G5 with
Safari 4.0.4 and while the audio was rock solid, the video was laughably slow, dropping frames and
stuttering to the point that it was still trying to display frames from earlier in the video long after the music
actually ended. Pathetic. There was a thread on this over at macnn.com but since the G5 and PPC
architecture is abandoned at this point it’s doubtful it will ever be fixed.

]]> By: Pete http://www.roytanck.com/2008/11/18/whats-up-with-linux-and-mac-flash-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-58584 Pete Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:39:00 +0000 http://www.roytanck.com/?p=699#comment-58584 Roy, I have a MacIntel so I empathise wholeheartedly. But disabling the Flash Player 10 'hardware acceleration' setting did nothing for me whatsoever. Adobe are just useless at porting their software for OS X. Whether it's Photoshop, Flash Pro or any other myriad software they produce, their Mac versions are ALWAYS resource hogs. It's as though they develop in VB for WIndows, then press a quick and dirty 'Export for Unix' button. They just don't know how to produce SW for unix-based systems. Roy,

I have a MacIntel so I empathise wholeheartedly. But disabling the Flash Player 10 ‘hardware acceleration’ setting did nothing for me whatsoever.

Adobe are just useless at porting their software for OS X. Whether it’s Photoshop, Flash Pro or any other myriad software they produce, their Mac versions are ALWAYS resource hogs.

It’s as though they develop in VB for WIndows, then press a quick and dirty ‘Export for Unix’ button. They just don’t know how to produce SW for unix-based systems.

]]> By: Sean http://www.roytanck.com/2008/11/18/whats-up-with-linux-and-mac-flash-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-37920 Sean Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:07:20 +0000 http://www.roytanck.com/?p=699#comment-37920 The turning off hardware accleration fixed 90% of the problem, thanks. The turning off hardware accleration fixed 90% of the problem, thanks.

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