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?
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True for me... but mainly on my 64 bit system.  The 32 bit installs
seem fairly stable (finally)