all my comments are directed at Gregs email, so I suppose I should have replied to him... I hope this doesn't cause too much confusion...
bobby On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the >> performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here: >> >> http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0 >> >> I don't know if there are similar hacks for improving general >> performance of Flash (or Gnash) on lesser-powered machines, although I >> am sure Rob has plenty of hints he can share for Gnash. >> >> -walter >> >> 2008/9/16 Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> We need to characterize the performance and support of Flash in release 8.2. >>> >>> Technical people in Uruguay did a tests a while ago on the Flash games at >>> this web site: http://www.minijuegos.com/ >>> >>> They used the Gnash shipped with 656 (0.8.1-1) and a Flash plugin >>> (9.0.124-0). > > that version of gnash is very old, you get different results running > 8.2 or a recent joyride: > >>> They tested Castle Wars: http://www.minijuegos.com/juegos/jugar.php?id=5552 > > loads, but doesn't work right (loops through some intro screens, > animation is slow). (same behavior on my laptop running F9 + gnash) > >>> Freekick Fusion http://www.minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=4570 > > website doesn't load correctly in Browse, complains 'the URL is not > valid and cannot be loaded'. (on F9 it loads, plays an annoying > soundclip saying I've won a nintendo Wii, and gets all the way to the > instruction screen, but doesn't let me hit start) > >>> Hulk Central Smahdown http://www.minijuegos.com/juegos/jugar.php?id=6769 > > gets to main menu, doesn't do anything after that. (same on F9, > except when the main screen comes up it plays a soundclip saying 'HULK > SMASH') > >>> >>> I believe those were chosen as examples of Flash capabilities. They weren't >>> necessarily things the ministry of education wanted to use in class :-) >>> >>> In all three Gnash failed completely and Flash ran slowly. > > again, this is not representative of 8.2 (although they still aren't > playable in Gnash)... > >>> If anyone has time to try those again with the 8.2 candidate build I would >>> be very interested in the results. >>> >>> Any other comments, URLs or examples about our Flash support are >>> appreciated. > > I will file some gnash bugs related to this later, as well as try them > out on Gnash's trunk (its not building for me at the moment). > > Bobby > >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Greg S >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Techteam mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/techteam >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
