Open-Source Flash Player Continues To Advance

[V10lator]

Or, is there any way I can get hardware/GPU-accelerated decoding for H.264 videos on YouTube (and everywhere else)?

Adope flash uses VDPAU, so with a nvidia GPU and proprietary drivers you should be fine (on the other hand gallium has VDPAU, too, but it's in a early state).
Gnash uses ffmpeg and ffmpeg supports VDPAU and VA-API, so you can go with nvidia or intel.
For lightspark I have no idea.

//EDIT: Also AFAIK every video API can use another as its backend, so you should be able to go with nvidia, amd and intel (if you set it up correctly).

[DDF420]

Personally i find the pepper flash to be much more usable and stable. Playing the same flash game using firefox and the older flash version and google chrome and the pepper flash on older hardware with crappy integrated graphics i get a much smoother faster frame rate from pepper. You can also get pepper flash working without issue on chromium browser.

[Musafir_86]

Hardware-accelerated Video Decoding

Video. Decode. Acceleration.

-This is the one issue that's enough to put me off from installing Ubuntu (or any Linux distro for that matter) on my family/friends/colleagues' computer as their main OS (sometimes I put Ubuntu as a second OS, though).

-And this is especially true for netbook/low-performance system (I myself currently have a 14" laptop with a 1.3GHz AMD E-300); it'll use a lot CPU power when playing Flash videos on YouTube, and will stutter badly with HD videos - putting multi-tasking out of question.

-Remember, video on the Web isn't just for entertainment purposes only - nowadays it's an essential medium to propagate information more effectively.

-Or, is there any way I can get hardware/GPU-accelerated decoding for H.264 videos on YouTube (and everywhere else)?


Thanks & regards,
-Musafir_86.

P/S: This is my first post here after being just a 'lurker' for years.

[Ex-Cyber]

Why are there still two projects surely the devs from these projects should get together and work on merging them into one project. Seems like a huge waste of effort to me.

It's two projects because Flash is really two platforms (basically AVM1 vs. AVM2).

[DanL]

I only use Flash for porno.

Sigh... get yourself a mail-order Russian bride already. Enough with the pr0n comments in every thread about Flash.

[Dewitt501]

Now if only it worked on YouTube, instead of displaying the "loading dots" at the bottom of the applet and nothing else.

[Desiderantes]

I only use Flash for porno.

So for Lightspark or Gnash to be a replacement, it needs to be porno-compatible.

So true it hurts.

[aliasbody]

I only use Flash for porno.

So for Lightspark or Gnash to be a replacement, it needs to be porno-compatible.

The only viable alternatives only work outside the browser (like the on I created where you just have to put the link in order to see the video). So until this get corrected there is no hope for that (apart of course of using the mobile version of the website if he has any).

[uid313]

Porno

I only use Flash for porno.

So for Lightspark or Gnash to be a replacement, it needs to be porno-compatible.

[timothyja]

What's the status of Gnash?

Why are there still two projects surely the devs from these projects should get together and work on merging them into one project. Seems like a huge waste of effort to me.