Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)
>> I'm not sure if it was considered, but as the maintainer of swfdec in >> Fedora I can state that swfdec is very cpu-intensive, and I have my >> doubts whether the performance on the XO would be comparable to gnash's, >> though it might be worth investigating. > > That has been my experience too, but I always thought that the > CPU-intensive stuff was only for complex Flash-9 things, and because > my ATI open source drivers sucked ;p I don't believe its a video driver issue as I've seen it on both nvidia and intel using the default open source drivers included in Fedora. Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Brian Pepple wrote: > Quick clarification. We discussed making swfdec installed by default > during the development of Fedora 9, but decided against doing so since > we felt it wasn't quite ready for that. > Ah, thanks for the clarification, I don't run Fedora so I wouldn't know :) > I'm not sure if it was considered, but as the maintainer of swfdec in > Fedora I can state that swfdec is very cpu-intensive, and I have my > doubts whether the performance on the XO would be comparable to gnash's, > though it might be worth investigating. That has been my experience too, but I always thought that the CPU-intensive stuff was only for complex Flash-9 things, and because my ATI open source drivers sucked ;p I guess I should compare gnash/swfdec/adobe flash performance-wise too. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)
>> swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are LGPLed, and support most of the >> Flash 9 features whereas gnash supports only a few of the Flash 9 >> features. swfdec is also the default Flash player on Fedora, and is >> the preferred flash player on Ubuntu. > > Quick clarification. We discussed making swfdec installed by default > during the development of Fedora 9, but decided against doing so since > we felt it wasn't quite ready for that. > >> Were there some specific problems with using swfdec? Or was it not >> under consideration due to some factors? > > I'm not sure if it was considered, but as the maintainer of swfdec in > Fedora I can state that swfdec is very cpu-intensive, and I have my > doubts whether the performance on the XO would be comparable to gnash's, > though it might be worth investigating. I've found it very cpu intensive on Fedora 9 and 10 with a penryn dual core processor. It basically pins one of the cores to 100% CPU but if I download the video by saving it from the properties box within the plugin I don't see that issue using the swfdec-gnome player so there's probably some low hanging fruit within the actual plugin that might be able to improve the problem easily for someone that knows where to look. Peter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 14:16 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are LGPLed, and support most of the > Flash 9 features whereas gnash supports only a few of the Flash 9 > features. swfdec is also the default Flash player on Fedora, and is > the preferred flash player on Ubuntu. Quick clarification. We discussed making swfdec installed by default during the development of Fedora 9, but decided against doing so since we felt it wasn't quite ready for that. > Were there some specific problems with using swfdec? Or was it not > under consideration due to some factors? I'm not sure if it was considered, but as the maintainer of swfdec in Fedora I can state that swfdec is very cpu-intensive, and I have my doubts whether the performance on the XO would be comparable to gnash's, though it might be worth investigating. Later, /B -- Brian Pepple https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bpepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel