>> swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are LGPLed, and support most of the >> Flash 9 features whereas gnash supports only a few of the Flash 9 >> features. swfdec is also the default Flash player on Fedora, and is >> the preferred flash player on Ubuntu. > > Quick clarification. We discussed making swfdec installed by default > during the development of Fedora 9, but decided against doing so since > we felt it wasn't quite ready for that. > >> Were there some specific problems with using swfdec? Or was it not >> under consideration due to some factors? > > I'm not sure if it was considered, but as the maintainer of swfdec in > Fedora I can state that swfdec is very cpu-intensive, and I have my > doubts whether the performance on the XO would be comparable to gnash's, > though it might be worth investigating.
I've found it very cpu intensive on Fedora 9 and 10 with a penryn dual core processor. It basically pins one of the cores to 100% CPU but if I download the video by saving it from the properties box within the plugin I don't see that issue using the swfdec-gnome player so there's probably some low hanging fruit within the actual plugin that might be able to improve the problem easily for someone that knows where to look. Peter _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel