Jorge F�bregas wrote:
I thought you might want to know that flash player 9 (beta) is out: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html ...
I installed the flash player 9 beta on my Suse 10.0 system (with all latest updates), and it works with Firefox-1.5.0.7-1.3. The standalone player doesn't work here either. It just sits there when I open a flash file and doesn't do anything. Playback of motion-intensive clips under Firefox leaves much to be desired, though. The video is very choppy and lots of frames are dropped. The audio often drops out too, and will only return if I close and reopen all instances of windows/tabs that are running the flash plugin. This is on a 2.8GHz Celeron machine with 1GB memory, running the motherboard-embedded Intel i845 video w/ 8MB video memory (i810 driver). Vmstat shows little paging activity so it shouldn't be bottlenecked on that. I didn't yet try with another browser to see if it makes any difference. Are there kernel parameters or Xorg tunables that I could tweak to improve on this? I tried changing the vm.swappiness kernel parameter but it doesn't seem to have a consistent and predictable effect. The same clips play smoothly under WinXP... -Ti