• Fullscreen Flash in Fedora 13 x86_64
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Is there any way to get fullscreen flash video to be smooth on a single core celeron laptop with intel onboard graphics? While on XP, 720p flash video was flawless. I am aware that the linux flash player is generally a lot slower, but slideshow 720p and unwatchable SD, along with random complete freezes (other than audio) where I have to reboot is going a bit far :/ Even in non-fullscreen mode, 720p is just as bad and SD is still a bit laggy. I've tried every combination of setup I can think of - both 10 and 10.1 in 32-bit Firefox, and in 64-bit Firefox with the wrapper. I've also tried the 64-bit alpha of 10 and with Compiz on and off, and with all the tweaks I can find on google. However nothing seems to make any difference. And a side question, is there any way to restart gnome when the crashes occur? Nothing I've tried has worked. Edit: init 1/5 seems to work for fixing the crashes, and youtube 480p is flawless - surely bbc iplayer uses a similar resolution for its SD stream? :S
Same thing happens for me. If I had to guess it's the Intel X driver. I also had the same issue in Gentoo on the same machine.
With a bit of tweaking and Flash 10.1 (since it has hardware acceleration for the Intel 4500MHD) I am now getting 720p to run more or less smoothly in non-fullscreen. And with the help of compiz zoom I can get flawless 720p fullscreen :D Now to write a firefox addon which (somehow) interfaces with compiz zoom to line it up round flash elements...
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