Justin Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Rob<lau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Friday 10 July 2009 04:50:26 pm Justin Smith wrote: >>> The reason I would be tempted to do this, is because the linux >>> versions of flash and firefox are huge cumbersome cpu-hogs, and I hear >>> the windows versions of both programs, running under wine, run much >>> more smoothly. >> I have had high CPU usage with Flash 10 since I switched to Jaunty (was >> running Flash 9 before.) But I've also had high CPU usage with KDE4 apps, >> so I suspect my Intel video drivers (or the version of Xorg in Jaunty) may >> be to blame. There are bugs filed for both possibilities. This would mean >> Flash 10 under Wine won't help, so I guess I need to try it and report >> back. >> >> Playing a standard, low-res Youtube video pegs my CPU nowadays, so I can >> understand why Ken might be frustrated enough to resort to drastic >> measures. >> >> Rob > > I have had great luck with using the downloadhelper firefox addon, > then playing the resulting flv with mplayer. This doesn't help with > interactive flash, of course, but it helps lots with youtube, vimeo, > et al. There's also the youtube-dl script. And there's another script I've seen that does YouTube and Vimeo, but I forget what it's called. Checking out the video downloadhelper extension, seems to be convenient. Thanks for mentioning it! -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
