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Improving Flash

By Dirk Freitag at 03/30/2009 - 12:56

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook with an Intel Graphics Media
Accelerator 950 (GMA 950), in 945GSE. Now, when I goto a flash based
site, for example <a href="http://www.starcraft2.com" title="www.starcraft2.com">www.starcraft2.com</a> the flash intro that plays on that
site is very choppy when I am booted into Ubuntu. If I am booted in
windows, the flash intro plays smoothly like it is supposed to. I was
curious as to what the difference was, and how I could improve the flash
performance when booted in Ubuntu? Thanks.

Comments

Re: Improving Flash

By Jim Smith at 03/30/2009 - 21:00

Pretty much the same here, I think it might be related to problems with
Pulseaudio in 8.10. I'll make a note to check again after I upgrade to
Jaunty.

YMMV

Jim

Re: Improving Flash

By Dirk Freitag at 03/30/2009 - 21:42

Yea, I will be checking again when I upgrade to Jaunty as well. What
kind of computer are you running that your having issues with flash?

Re: Improving Flash

By Jim Smith at 03/30/2009 - 22:28

A Sony VAIO laptop also using the GMA 950, so it could be an issue with
this card only. Any others out there with the choppy Flash Playback
problem using Intrepid? Any other s have it with different graphics cards?

Jim

RE: Improving Flash

By kyle.smith at 03/30/2009 - 16:23

I'm having a simliar problem with Flash elements crashing. In the past,
I've stepped the version of Flash back and had better success. It seems
Adobe doesn't put as much effort into the Linux module as they do the
Windows one.

There is a linux archive for Adobe Flash on their site, I don't recall
where. Google might know.

HTH,
Kyle

[mailto:ubuntu-users- ... at lists dot ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Dirk Freitag

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook with an Intel Graphics Media
Accelerator 950 (GMA 950), in 945GSE. Now, when I goto a flash based
site, for example <a href="http://www.starcraft2.com" title="www.starcraft2.com">www.starcraft2.com</a> the flash intro that plays on that
site is very choppy when I am booted into Ubuntu. If I am booted in
windows, the flash intro plays smoothly like it is supposed to. I was
curious as to what the difference was, and how I could improve the flash
performance when booted in Ubuntu? Thanks.