[arch-general] Terrible flash performance

[Alan Ianson]

On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:58:23 +0100
Vladimir Nikšić <vniksic at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an ongoing problem with flash performance. I tried installing 
> flashplugin-11.1.102.55-1 from the pacman repositories. The videos on 
> youtube for example, works fine as long as I don't turn on
> fullscreen. The video gets really choppy and the CPU usage spikes to
> 100% (one core). I have a Core2Duo on 2ghz. A couple of months ago I
> switched from Ubuntu where youtube was working essentially
> flawlessly, fullscreen or not.
> 
> The same issue occurs on manually downloaded the latest 64bit 
> libflashplayer.so from adobe's site. Does anyone have similar issues?
> I also have an Nvidia card which unfortunately does not support GPU 
> acceleration.

Do you have "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1" uncommented
in /etc/adobe/mms.cfg? I had to comment mine out else I get results
much like yours.