Flash Player

[CaptainCool]

For some reason I'm not getting very good performance when I try to watch a flash movie such as any of the ones that can be found Here
Now the system I'm currently using is not top of the line(Pentium 3 1 Ghz) but it still got plenty of power to handle any of those movies. I already tried turning the quality of the movies down to low but they still suck. The video wants to run real slow while the sound is running just fine. Anyone one know of any quick fixes? I'm using Linux Mandrake 9.1.

[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: CaptainCool ]

[Laukev7]

How much RAM do you have? What video card do you use? I have a 1000 MHz Pentium 3, 312 MB of ram and a Geforce 2 mx 400 with the same distribution, and the movies work fine for me (maybe a tad choppy, but not much).

Maybe you just need more memory.

Edit: I ran those videos at the highest quality. By the way, those movies are really weird!

[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[CaptainCool]

Welp, lets see here. I got 384 mb ram and a Voodoo 5 5500 card. So dont think those could be the problem.
What web browser are you using?

 

quote: By the way, those movies are really weird!

True, some of them are lol. Check out some of those videogame parodies they got, alot of em are funny as hell.

[Laukev7]

I was using Mozilla when I tried them, the one that came with MDK 9.1. I tried them again in Opera 7.11, and I found the animations smoother.

Do you have hardware acceleration? It's possible that the drivers that came with the distribution don't have hardware acceleration. If that's the case, you should check the website to see if they have official Linux drivers. When I replaced my drivers, I saw a major improvement in desktop responsivity.

[CaptainCool]

I just tried to use Netscape and it's working alot better then mozilla. Don't know why mozilla seems to suck at flash guess I'll use Netscape for awhile.
Thanks for the replies.

[Calum]

you should also be able to use galeon and mozillafirebird to watch those movies in. if the problem is the browser, then choice is a good thing. actually konqueror will be able to use the netscape flash plugin too, if you set it to search the netscape plugins dirs at startup.