I just ran that movie with very few jerks, but it took 33 % of the CPU
cycles while it was running.
By contrast, I ran a QuickTime movie at 720x480 millions of colors, 30
fps, video and sound and it used 25-30% CPU.
Would it be possible for you or someone at Macromedia to do a
side-by-side test between a Mac and equivalent PC to see if there is,
in fact, some problem with running Flash on the Mac.
TIA
Dick
On Aug 9, 2004, at 11:44 AM, John Dowdell wrote:
> At 11:21 AM 8/9/4, Damien McKenna wrote:
> > The Our Land movie jumps all over the place here on my
> > 1gig'r G4.��That is unacceptable.
>
> Searching "flash mac slow" pulls up lots of other threads with
> diagnostic
> questions and background. (Pulls up lots of threads without info, too,
> though... searcher beware.)
>
> You just inadvertently did the "some-or-all files" test with your
> mention
> of JibJab's "This Land Will Vote For Me" piece. Next step is to ask
> yourself whether your Mac is doing it slower than other Macs, to do
> the
> "some-or-all machines" test. (From the paucity of similar comments on
> that
> file, I suspect you'll find the answer to be true here.)
>
> After that, sticking with that known-quality piece of content, you can
> start examining what else your system is doing at the time. You're
> likely
> running a browser (rather than standalone), and browsers _definitely_
> differ in how they allocate cycles for guest processes such as browser
> plugins ("some-or-all browsers" test). If you're streaming, then poof
> there
> go some of your chip cycles, although the lack of similar comments
> from
> other Mac users on that SWF still points to an additional cofactor
> ("some-or-all times" test). Checking for other background processes
> is a
> definite step to take as well.
>
> For Macs in general, if you'll check the history you'll see there has
> been
> tons of extra engineering allocated to the Mac Player, so it's not an
> issue
> of negligence. Isolating out why that SWF is different on your Mac
> than on
> other Macs is a useful first step.
>
> jd
>
>
> John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco
> (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!)
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