Video is, of course, the most "stressful" work one can ask of a system, and the most common YouTube codecs these days (On2 VP6 and H.264) are very processor-intensive.
Usually,the best workaround is to try to keep the framerate but downsize to postage-stamp. No idea how that could be done though. Sean On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Luke Faraone <l...@faraone.cc> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@sugarlabs.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Gross <daniel.gr...@utoronto.ca> >>> wrote: >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > I tried running youtube on the OLPC. The browser showed to click here to >>> > run >>> > flash, but flash never ran. Did anyone manage to run youtube in the >>> > browser? >>> > Is there a flash puggin needed? If so, does it exist? >> >> Gnash, which OLPC uses by default, is terrible in that version of the OS. >> Even if you installed the official Flash plugin from Adobe, it is too much >> overhead for the XO to handle. The best Youtube support I have seen on the >> XO is in debxo using totem plugins (written in C afaict and directly playing >> the video file through RSS magic) >> >>> >>> FWIW, >>> >>> I have not been able to get youtube on gnash working on ubuntu 8.10 >>> but it works fine on 9.04. >> >> But Ubuntu as a rule doesn't work well on the XO :( >> >>> >>> So, when sugar runs on ubuntu 9.04 we will be getting pretty close! >> >> I have not tried the latest version of Gnash in Jaunty, but if this is the >> case it will be most welcome, and will greatly ease the deployment of Sugar >> in schools. >> > Still no luck getting the standard 9.04 Sugar packages to install and > run on Sugar. I could not do more testing of gnash in Sugar. > > But, when viewing youtube videos in gnash/firefox viewer on gnome both > CPUs maxed out on my dual core 1.6GHz laptop:( > > david > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
