[linux-audio-user] Re: flash 9 beta

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

Lee Revell:
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] flash 9 beta
> To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
> Message-ID: <1161275544.15860.201.camel at mindpipe>
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> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:45 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
>> finally!
>> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
>> seems to work here with firefox 1.5.0.7.
>>
>> *much* better sound synchronization - i can finally watch stuff on
>> youtube without screaming in frustration.
>>
>
> ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!  On my 600Mhz machine (which plays big divx
> DVD and HDTV rips perfectly in full screen mode) I get at MOST 1 FPS.
> Most YouTube videos never play - the red bar fills up, I see the first
> frame, and can fast forward and rewind, but the video behaves as if it's
> always paused.
>
>
> Guess I'll have to go back to Windows if I want to use this new &
> improved proprietary multimedia Internet... sigh... it was fun while it
> lasted.
>
> Lee
>

You could try to use vmware. Youtube seems to play perfectly through 
vmware on my machine (even in fullscreen), but thats an xp2800 though.

(And heres an experimental jack-wrapper for vmware: 
http://www.notam02.no/~kjetism/vmwaredsp-1.3jack.tar.gz )