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SWF Flash performance on Python Client

Asked by Steve Haines

I can see this has been raised in the past but with a newer version of the client I'm not sure what the current status is.

I'm running v1.3.0 client on a Atom D510 (1.6GHz Dual Core), 2Gb Ram with nVidia Ion driving a 1920x1080 monitor. Ubuntu 10.04. I have loaded the latest nVidia drivers.

I have a flash SWF file (created from an animated Powerpoint slideshow) which runs smoothly fullscreen in Firefox but is quite jerky in Xibo. It gets worse if I run it in a smaller region with an RSS feed running alongside (not surprising I suppose). If I reduce the resolution to 960x540 it runs fine, but obviously doesn't look so good.

 Any thoughts?

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

There's massive overhead in rendering flash. You may find the 11 beta
improves things somewhat, but I don't think it's fundamentally going to get
much better than it is now.

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Steve Haines (y9a7s-steve-si9yr) said : 		#2

Thanks Alex. Any thoughts on what processor element needs more oomph to drive the HD display - CPU/GPU/GPU memory? CPU is only running at around 50-60% so that doesn't seem to be the problem.

I'm trying to understand how this works and where the problem lies. As far as I can get it, the flash is rendered by the Adobe Flash plugin via Berkelium and displayed by libavg? That would imply the problem is the way libavg is interacting with the GPU. Is that right? Will VDPAU support help?

Also not quite sure which version you mean by 11 beta? (sorry if I'm being stupid!)

Cheers, Steve.

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Kevin Salisbury (ksalisbury) said : 		#3

Steve,

Alex means Adobe Flash Player 11. The RC (probably last beta) is out at this time;

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html

Kevin

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