HD at YouTube slow!

[Bloodwych]

Flash, my number one internet enermy now that popups are mostly blocked in browsers. Remember my rant on here a few years back about it eating CPU cyles and causing global warming? Making laptop fans screem? All for a few animated adds?

Honestly, flash misused is a plague. It's just so inefficient and a huge CPU hog. Flashblock is one of my fav Firefox addons and makes an old PC able to cruise the web at lightening speed! Without it, an old PC on the net is like crawling through mud thanks to flash.

HD content is very CPU intensive due to the high compression, with Flash it's even worse. I don't know your CPU specs Demon Cleaner, but it sounds like it's running completely off your CPU. I think all flash runs mainly off the CPU, with the hardware accelerate option on your vid card meaning simple stuff like scaling - I don't think it uses DXVA.

Take a look at task manager while watching a vid. See if your CPU is pegged at 100%.

[Demon Cleaner]

Take a look at task manager while watching a vid. See if your CPU is pegged at 100%.

Will try that, I have an older P4 2.8GHz CPU.

[Bloodwych]

Hmmm. A P4 2.8 should be enough for youtube HD without huge slowdowns so it may be another issue.

[Shoonay]

In a few days things *might* change...

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/0...r-in-the-works

... or not, who knows...

[Harrison]

But such a GPU accelerated accelerator with nVidia behind it would fragment the userbase as in true nVidia fashion they would make it a proprietary technology that would only run on their own hardware architecture and drivers.

Adobe were also working directly with ATi on very similar hardware accelerated GPU solutions, but I'm not sure if they related to Flash Player, for just video production.

The big thing I hate about nVidia is that they buy up technologies such as PhysX and then code them so they are proprietary and will only work with their own hardware. Attempting to monopolise the market with people having to buy they products if they want to use the technology. Very much in the same model as Apple or to a lesser extent these days Microsoft.

ATi's approach is that rather than restrict them to their own cards, they are looking at the best open source solutions based on Havoc and OpenCL. ATi cards have a system called Stream which is very similar to that found on nVidia cards, but if utilised actually is more efficient and better performing, giving faster results. It is sad at the moment however that with the marketing weight nVidia have over ATi that this technology hasn't been allowed to become as mainstream as it should be.

The sooner we ditch proprietary technologies and go open standard so that all hardware regardless of manufacturer can take advantage of it the better. Bring on OpenCL and ditch the proprietary stuff nVidia are trying to monopolise the marketplace with.

[Shoonay]

And Flash Player 10.1 beta is out, yeah!
I can't see anything that it's for nVidia GPU's only, so could you test it Harry?

For now I've only tested the following (with Firefox 3.6b2):
YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (HD)
Flash Element 2 - Tower Defense.net (highest quality, music, sounds and jibblets on with fast forward action)
Doom Triple Pack
... and all I can say is... PHUNK YEAH!
I know that some of you might not notice any difference with your i7 quad CPU's, but after giving my good old AMD x2 4200+ a little brake, I sure can.
Well done Adobe! :thumbsup:

[paulpeter]

I am not sure but if there is problem in your Internet speed there is software called video accelerator it works fine with me and don't have to wait for video to buffer it manage everything fine hope your problem got solved..