On my office PC with Intel Core i5 x4 / 8GB RAM / Intel’s in-CPU video card / Opensuse 11.4 adobe flash is very slow 
it is impossible to watch fullscreen youtube videos even in 480p. But on my home PC everything is just fine and CPU is AMD Athlon II 645 x3 - it is much slower… video card is ATI 5770 with AMD’s proprietary drivers. May be Intel’s on-CPU video card is slowing down flash video playback? Or may be i need to install other video drivers? Any help is much appreciated.
BTW both systems are x64
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:56:03 +0530, cmyker
<cmyker@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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> On my office PC with Intel Core i5 x4 / 8GB RAM / Intel’s in-CPU video
> card / Opensuse 11.4 adobe flash is very slow it is impossible to
> watch fullscreen youtube videos even in 480p. But on my home PC
> everything is just fine and CPU is AMD Athlon II 645 x3 - it is much
> slower… video card is ATI 5770 with AMD’s proprietary drivers. May be
> Intel’s on-CPU video card is slowing down flash video playback? Or may
> be i need to install other video drivers? Any help is much appreciated.
>
are you sure this is caused by adobe flash being slow? what’s your
internet speed at the office and at home? perhaps the office connection
comes thru’ a proxy server that implements “QoS,” i.e., serves different
protocols or destinations at different speeds?
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phani.
Of course i’m sure. I don’t how to describe it. It looks like rendering is really slow, fullscreen youtube video is blinking a bit and sometimes completely freezes.
On 09/06/2011 11:26 AM, cmyker wrote:
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> Any help is much appreciated.
see http://tinyurl.com/4537v3y
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:56:03 +0530, cmyker
<cmyker@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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> phanisvara;2381833 Wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:56:03 +0530, cmyker
>> <cmyker@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On my office PC with Intel Core i5 x4 / 8GB RAM / Intel’s in-CPU
>> video
>> > card / Opensuse 11.4 adobe flash is very slow it is impossible to
>> > watch fullscreen youtube videos even in 480p. But on my home PC
>> > everything is just fine and CPU is AMD Athlon II 645 x3 - it is much
>> > slower… video card is ATI 5770 with AMD’s proprietary drivers. May
>> be
>> > Intel’s on-CPU video card is slowing down flash video playback? Or
>> may
>> > be i need to install other video drivers? Any help is much
>> appreciated.
>> >
>>
>>
>> are you sure this is caused by adobe flash being slow? what’s your
>> internet speed at the office and at home? perhaps the office
>> connection
>> comes thru’ a proxy server that implements “QoS,” i.e., serves
>> different
>> protocols or destinations at different speeds?
>>
>> –
>> phani.
>
> Of course i’m sure. I don’t how to describe it. It looks like rendering
> is really slow, fullscreen youtube video is blinking a bit and sometimes
> completely freezes.
>
in that case it’s probably a video driver thing. (un)fortunately i have no
experience with intel cards/drivers – always been using nvidia cards with
their proprietary drivers. i know that there’s several threads about video
cards, also intel ones, in this and other sub-forums – which i didn’t
follow, since i don’t use the hardware. you could either search, via
google or the forum search, or wait for others to give you more relevant
pointers.
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phani.
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:07:59 +0530, DenverD
<DenverD@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 11:26 AM, cmyker wrote:
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> see http://tinyurl.com/4537v3y
>
you sure it’s a flash problem, not video driver? my experience with non-64
bit flash was that it used a lot of CPU and was more likely to crash, but
i never experienced slow-down as described by the OP…
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phani.
It think this is a video driver problem too. I tried to reconfigure Xorg and reinstall graphics driver, but this issue is still exists.
Xorg log:
44.151] (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, 44.470] (II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) Sandybridge
On 09/06/2011 12:47 PM, phanisvara wrote:
> you sure it’s a flash problem, not video driver?
no, not at all sure…(and, anyway i posted before i saw yours on video,
so it wasn’t my intention to say “you are wrong”…)
it could be video driver, could be a flash problem, or some other
software, even a hardware problem and for sure also likely is a
networking problems (like you said) based on cmyker’s description
“blinking a bit and sometimes completely freezes”…
if the OP wants to dicker with the video driver i’d start here:
http://tinyurl.com/37v9y7m
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This is definitely isn’t networking problem! Fullscreen video controls are not responding, mouse poiter freezes and Xorg is using 100% of one of the CPU’s cores.
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:15:38 +0530, DenverD
<DenverD@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> On 09/06/2011 12:47 PM, phanisvara wrote:
>> you sure it’s a flash problem, not video driver?
>
> no, not at all sure…(and, anyway i posted before i saw yours on video,
> so it wasn’t my intention to say “you are wrong”…)
oh, i’m wrong often enought; never hesitate to tell me if that seems to be
the case, please!
> it could be video driver, could be a flash problem, or some other
> software, even a hardware problem and for sure also likely is a
> networking problems (like you said) based on cmyker’s description
> “blinking a bit and sometimes completely freezes”…
judging from his next post, i’m more convinced now that it’s a video
driver problem, meaning video driver <-> hardware, and perhaps even kernel
version & Xorg.
i’ve had similar symptoms a long while ago, which could only be solved by
patching the nvidia driver at that time, because it wouldn’t install with
the kernel. at other times i had to use the latest Xorg, otherwise i’d see
too much CPU use. the situation with all these proprietary video drivers
is a nasty mess, but i read that the later 3.x kernels come with better
support for opensource 3D, making proprietary drivers unnecessary (except
for high-end games, probably). hoping for a better future in this regard…
> if the OP wants to dicker with the video driver i’d start here:
> http://tinyurl.com/37v9y7m
that’s a very useful link, IMO.
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phani.
Perhaps the 64-bit flash beta?
I’ve tried recently released flash x64 rc1, but fullscreen performance is still very poor… Also i tried to install latest intel video drivers, reconfigure Xorg, add some recommended options to Xorg’s device section, etc… but nothing changed 
On 09/07/2011 02:16 PM, cmyker wrote:
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> but nothing changed
i just today ran across this:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=442251
and its background
http://blogs.adobe.com/penguinswf/2008/08/secrets_of_the_mmscfg_file_1.html
which says to put this
OverrideGPUValidation=true
in this (which you must create)
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg
you can try it if you wish, after you read my sig’s caveat…
(i added the file with that in it to my system and have, so far had no
ill effects…no positive effects either, as i was having no “very
poor” performance issues…
if you decide to try it, let us know if it helps…or not.
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DD
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I think that OP is hitting a limitation of this particular HW/SW combo. I have a brand new system with 11.4 32bit using the integrated graphics of the i3 CPU. Just for comparison:
lspci -nnk
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0102] (rev 09)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:844d]
Kernel driver in use: i915
This system is not able to display flash on full screen @1280x1024; it just hangs. It is a driver problem and it’s just the way it is for now.
Wow! This trick is fixed all flash playback issues! Like some sort of a magic 
Thank you! And thanks to everyone who tried to help to solve this issue.
BTW i want to edit this thread and mark it as solved and add a solution to my first post to make sure that someone who may experience similar problem could find the solution quickly, rather than search in dozens of posts, why couldn’t i?
On 09/08/2011 12:26 PM, cmyker wrote:
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> Wow! This trick is fixed all flash playback issues! Like some sort of a
> magic 
Thank you! And thanks to everyone who tried to help to solve
> this issue.
GREAT to hear…
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DD
On 09/08/2011 12:26 PM, cmyker wrote:
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> BTW i want to edit this thread and mark it as solved and add a solution
> to my first post to make sure that someone who may experience similar
> problem could find the solution quickly, rather than search in dozens of
> posts, why couldn’t i?
for a variety of reasons we don’t mark threads SOLVED (because, for
example this thread will not solve all “flash is really slow” as there
are many reasons)…and…well, there are many threads about marking
threads and editing post, if you wish to learn more, in these fora:
http://tinyurl.com/5r4xfkd
http://tinyurl.com/5ta27yb
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DD
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