BillW50 wrote:
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Paul wrote:
Well, Windows has a slider for acceleration, and Flash has a tick
box in its configuration dialog for hardware acceleration. It sounds
like you got relief, by using one of those. My proposal in this case,
was to use the Flash tickbox.

In the image here, the Flash setting is with hardware acceleration
disabled. Right clicking within the movie frame, should bring that
up. Flash doesn't have a traditional Control Panel. The dialog is a
popup, triggered by right-click.

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5...7836909137.png

Well Macromedia Flash is one of the most power hungry and bloated
players I have ever used in my life! For example it needs three times
more CPU than Windows Media Player does. No other player hits the CPU as
hard. How it got to where it is today, I have no clue.

Many including myself, try to use the oldest Flash version that we can
get by with. Can't go too old, because things won't work. Version 8
seems to the be oldest that almost most websites will work fine with.

It's up to PW of course, as they might want to stick with the latest
version of Flash. But just in case they don't, you can always get an
older version from oldversion.com.


One of the modern features of Flash, is how full screen playback is done.
An older version of Flash I used, did screen resizing with the CPU.
That burned up about 40% of my CPU, when doing movie playback. That
would be taking video content which is 640x480 or smaller, and
making it big enough to fill the full screen (1280x1024) on my
LCD monitor.

There is a function in the video card, that will take a pixmap and
resize it (interpolate) to fill the screen. When I tried a version
of Flash with that feature, the CPU utilization dropped perilously
close to zero. It was in the few percent range. So Flash went from
being a pig, to being quite lightweight. And that's because the
video card has the necessary function to do it.

I don't see a reason to go so far back, to turn features like that off.

If a technique they're using isn't stable, then disabling hardware
acceleration with the tick box, is one option. Moving the slider
in Windows itself, implies regular desktop operations aren't stable
and turning off acceleration there can return stability, at the
price of slower screen updates or stuttering.

Paul