flash slow

[Mike White]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:edubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Gavin McCullagh
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:28 AM
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: flash slow
> 
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Mike White wrote:
> 
> > What is the recommended minimum CPU for flash video to play
seamlessly?
> > On 500 Mhz boxes with 128 RAM, it's terrible. On 733 Mhz boxes with
same
> > RAM, it's better but still needs improvement.
> 
> Are you talking about a thin client or desktops?  In both cases, it's
not
> really as simple as CPU speed.  Video card acceleration, network
> bandwidth and ram available (which may not be as simple as the amount
in
> the machine) will all affect matters.
> 
> For what it's worth, I've watched youtube videos on an ubuntu laptop
with
> 700Mhz cpu and 256MB RAM.
> 
> Gavin
> 

ok, thanks. LTSP clients. I'm not seeing a lot of bandwidth congestion,
but the CPUs seem to be taking a load under the mozilla thread when a
video is playing. There are likely some video hardware hurdles to jump
also.