11 Jul
2009
11 Jul
'09
5:59 a.m.
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:10 AM, david<gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Rob wrote:
Firefox can be configured to use an alsa plugin or esd-compatible
soundserver. Check the file /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc (or
/etc/firefox/firefoxrc as appropriate). The line to use pulseaudio is
"ICEWEASEL_DSP="padsp" (or FIREFOX_DSP="padsp"). With the alsa
jack
output plugin, or the pulseaudio jack output backend, you can even
make firefox and its flash plugins go through jack.
For what it is worth, I have a dual-core 3.2 gigahertz pentium 4 with
1.4 gigs of RAM in my main machine, and flash video playback often
pegs one of my CPU's to nearly 100%. If there are more than three
flash video objects active at once on one page it often stalls
iceweasel to a complete halt, if not crashing it entirely (I presume
it is some kind of race condition or re-entrancy problem with the
Linux version of the adobe plugin). I work around this latter issue by
using the flash-block plugin, which shows a play button for each flash
object that does not load the flash plugin until you click on it.
On Saturday 11 July 2009 02:03:16 am david
wrote:
Debian Etch shifted Sid over to Lenny within the past year, so this is a
much newer thing than that old Debian Stable ... Whatever, it's running
Flash 10.
I suppose it could be a problem with Xorg ...
--
David
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Hmmm, I have no such problem with Flash on Debian
Lenny. Many times, I
have a Flash music video playing in FF, switch it to the background, and
continue doing other stuff with the computer without any performance
impact at all. Must be a problem with Ubuntu.
Well, I've no idea what Ken uses (and his problem is pretty different than
mine), but I did mention I was using Jaunty specifically. It still works
fine on Hardy (whose Flash is 9.0) and OK on Intrepid, both of which
default to earlier versions of Xorg -- as appears to be the case with Lenny
since Debian stable goes into feature freeze about what, 6 or 7 years
before each release? So in a couple of years you may run into this
problem, in Rocky or Scud or whatever they name it by then.