Choppy Youtube performance with HD or fullscreen video? Have an nVidia card? Get it. - Hardware & Software

I just found out that nVidia has cooperated with Adobe to make [url=http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe_flashplayer_plus_nvidia.html]Flash player 10.1[/url], with CUDA video acceleration. What this means is that if you have an nVidia card that's [url=http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpus_supporting_adobeflash.html]supported[/url], and driver version 195 or more, you can get fullscreen HD flash video without choppiness! Mine used to be really choppy, especially on HD or 1080p videos, and now it plays perfectly. It does this by decoding it using your GPU instead of your CPU. Turns out GPUs are a lot more powerful than CPUs for things besides 3D acceleration and rendering. [url=http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/]Download link is to the right.[/url]

Cool.

And Flash will still run like shit. Adobe needs to get out.

Because something interoperable like DXVA is for losers.

This works on ATI too fyi, I tried it out last week. I switched back to 10, it's a bit buggy.

[QUOTE=BmB;18871804]Because something interoperable like DXVA is for losers.[/QUOTE] Considering DXVA is DirectX only, I'm not sure what fucked up definition of interoperable you're using.

[QUOTE=xboomguy;18875684]This works on ATI too fyi, I tried it out last week. I switched back to 10, it's a bit buggy.[/QUOTE] It works on ATI, but you won't get the video acceleration (i.e. it's almost exactly the same)

Thank you.

I installed it a while back, good performance, some vids get mad aliasing though.

[QUOTE=atomicthumbs;18875842]It works on ATI, but you won't get the video acceleration (i.e. it's almost exactly the same)[/QUOTE] I can't confirm anything, but I found this earlier today: [url]http://downloads.guru3d.com/ATI-Catalyst-9.11-Windows-7-|-Vista-%2832-bit%29-download-2430.html[/url] In the features section it states: [quote] * This release of ATI Catalyst™ supports the new Hardware Acceleration features of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for video encoded in the H.264 format. * Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth video playback, reduced system resource utilization, and to help preserve battery life. * Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta is expected to be available for download from Adobe Labs (labs.adobe.com) before the end of the year. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 and ATI Radeon HD™ 4000 Series of products. [/quote]

I'll just continue waiting for Youtube to start using HTML5.

Cool, they even support linux! Bit surprised at that.

[QUOTE=IpHa;18877319]Cool, they even support linux! Bit surprised at that.[/QUOTE] Yes, but since it doesn't come in the convenient form of a .deb package, I'm not sure how to install it. :(

[QUOTE=Lazor;18877142]I'll just continue waiting for Youtube to start using HTML5.[/QUOTE] [url]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kchoimdlcbapmcdnheaahjcdpdjdpfco[/url]

Using the HTML5 plugin for chrome makes the videos laggy as shit for me and the play perfectly fine in HD normally.

The ActiveX installer crashes for me when I try to run it.

[QUOTE=Robber;18882206][url]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kchoimdlcbapmcdnheaahjcdpdjdpfco[/url][/QUOTE] That be handy.

damn that would have been handy but I got a 7800 :(

I want HD 4xxx and 5xxx support!

[QUOTE=gparent;18875770]Considering DXVA is DirectX only, I'm not sure what fucked up definition of interoperable you're using.[/QUOTE] The one that doesn't have the hardware support of OSX.

ATI DOES support video acceleration. Try it out. To confirm it, play a video on YouTube, fire up Catalyst, go to Avivo Video and try changing the brightness.

[QUOTE=Lazor;18877142]I'll just continue waiting for Youtube to start using HTML5.[/QUOTE] You should see my youtube. [img]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/b50200screenshot200912.png[/img] No idea if that is actually HTML5 Youtube, but it is different and I have no fucking clue how I did it

Thanks, I needed this because YouTube runs like shit on my laptop.

I don't get why sites use flash when it sucks so horribly that it sometimes has performance issues on even the strongest PC's. Also ATI's newest drivers support acceleration with the flash 10.1 so this it's not nvidia exclusive, sounds like another nvidia lie to make people think you can only get it on nvidia cards.

Heres a chrome extension that makes youtube use HTML5 [url]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kchoimdlcbapmcdnheaahjcdpdjdpfco[/url]

[QUOTE=Xplodzion;18910690]it's not nvidia exclusive, sounds like another nvidia lie to make people think you can only get it on nvidia cards.[/QUOTE] I don't see where they claim it's exclusive to them.

Jeez people, learn to read the official adobe page before you say it's only Nvidia compatible: [url]http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.pdf[/url] [img]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/ati.png[/img] I'm going to install 9.11 drivers and then test this with some youtube 1080p videos. Hopefully they'll work smooth now.

[QUOTE=pebkac;18912199]Jeez people, learn to read the official adobe page before you say it's only Nvidia compatible: [url]http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.pdf[/url] [img]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/ati.png[/img] I'm going to install 9.11 drivers and then test this with some youtube 1080p videos. Hopefully they'll work smooth now.[/QUOTE] They do, you can see the activity of your GPU go up if you watch video's on youtube.