Flash tests

[Bobby Powers]

all my comments are directed at Gregs email, so I suppose I should
have replied to him... I hope this doesn't cause too much confusion...

bobby

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the
>> performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here:
>>
>> http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0
>>
>> I don't know if there are similar hacks for improving general
>> performance of Flash (or Gnash) on lesser-powered machines, although I
>> am sure Rob has plenty of hints he can share for Gnash.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> 2008/9/16 Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We need to characterize the performance and support of Flash in release 8.2.
>>>
>>> Technical people in Uruguay did a tests a while ago on the Flash games at
>>> this web site: http://www.minijuegos.com/
>>>
>>> They used the Gnash shipped with 656 (0.8.1-1) and a Flash plugin
>>> (9.0.124-0).
>
> that version of gnash is very old, you get different results running
> 8.2 or a recent joyride:
>
>>> They tested Castle Wars: http://www.minijuegos.com/juegos/jugar.php?id=5552
>
> loads, but doesn't work right (loops through some intro screens,
> animation is slow).  (same behavior on my laptop running F9 + gnash)
>
>>> Freekick Fusion http://www.minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=4570
>
> website doesn't load correctly in Browse, complains 'the URL is not
> valid and cannot be loaded'. (on F9 it loads, plays an annoying
> soundclip saying I've won a nintendo Wii, and gets all the way to the
> instruction screen, but doesn't let me hit start)
>
>>> Hulk Central Smahdown http://www.minijuegos.com/juegos/jugar.php?id=6769
>
> gets to main menu, doesn't do anything after that.  (same on F9,
> except when the main screen comes up it plays a soundclip saying 'HULK
> SMASH')
>
>>>
>>> I believe those were chosen as examples of Flash capabilities. They weren't
>>> necessarily things the ministry of education wanted to use in class :-)
>>>
>>> In all three Gnash failed completely and Flash ran slowly.
>
> again, this is not representative of 8.2 (although they still aren't
> playable in Gnash)...
>
>>> If anyone has time to try those again with the 8.2 candidate build I would
>>> be very interested in the results.
>>>
>>> Any other comments, URLs or examples about our Flash support are
>>> appreciated.
>
> I will file some gnash bugs related to this later, as well as try them
> out on Gnash's trunk (its not building for me at the moment).
>
> Bobby
>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Greg S
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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