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Software and the environmentSoftware and the environmentPosted Feb 5, 2009 12:25 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: Software and the environment by Cato Parent article: Aleutia E2: low power to the people As for video, I found a 700 MHz PIII too slow for Youtube Flash videos, which is the key application for Joe Public. Odd. I recall having success with Flash with an old machine of about that speed (I don't have access to it right now so cannot check). Video playback is really sensitive to having a correct X11 setup: even a faster processor cannot play video smoothly, if it has to update the screen in the generic way, instead of the Xvideo. The display bit depth may also matter.
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Software and the environment Posted Feb 7, 2009 15:21 UTC (Sat) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
One of the problems is that Flash does not use XVideo. It insists on drawing things to the screen, a pixel at a time... making it painfully slow on all but the most modern processors.
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