#5408 NORM Never A: last flash release is much slower

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#5408: last flash release is much slower
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 Reporter:  tomeu    |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro   |     Version:                
 Keywords:  relnote  |    Verified:  0             
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 The performance of the latest released flash plugin from Adobe (9.0.115)
 [1] to watch videos such as [2] is not smooth enough to understand what is
 said.

 But using an older release of the flash plugin such as 9.0.21 from [3]
 gives a much better playback (good enough in my opinion).

 The interesting thing is that when the movie is playing with 115, X is
 consuming 30% of the cpu. With 21, 2-5% cpu is used by X during playback.

 My guess is that for some reason 115 is not using Xv or other feature of
 the X server so that needs to do more work.

 [1] http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-
 plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm
 [2] http://www.francoclic.mec.gov.br/reflets/licao01/introduction.php
 [3] http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc4X/updates/i386/RPMS/flash-
 plugin-9.0.21.78-beta.i386.rpm

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