It's proably the h264 decoder of the flash player, it's quite buggy and a bit of a cpu hog,
Good news is adobe are making it better all the time, so a lot of the early buggyiness is gone, it's just the cpu concerns that are about, You'll see a big cpu spike of h264 compared to the other v6 and sozernson flash codecs, Ant On 10/01/2011 12:43, "Christopher Woods" <chris...@infinitus.co.uk> wrote: > I got a Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook with an integrated NVIDIA ION GPU for > Christmas :-) It's a 1.6GHz device which I can easily top out the CPU on, > but with DXVA support and an HDMI port it becomes an ideal low-cost HTPC > substitute for occasional viewing. > > The first thing I set off to try was the GPU-accelerated 720p and 1080p DXVA > support, which works beautifully. With the latest Adobe Flash plugin, > YouTube (and a few other sites) also happily play 1080p. However, I can > barely manage to play the HQ SD videos on the iPlayer, with even worse > results on the HD content - although Flash can (and should) hardware > accelerate any H.264 material it renders, for some reason it's not kicking > in on the iPlayer vids. > > If I get_iplayer an HD programme and then play it back in Media Player > Classic, it plays beautifully, so GPU horsepower isn't the problem here. Is > this a known issue or is there something specific about the coding of the > web player? (any insight appreciated) > > Cheers > Chris > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Anthony McKale, Platformian Soldier Mob : 07912981657 Internal Phone : (02 776) 64470 BBC FMT Children's, TVC East Tower, Floor 1, Room E164 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
