[Lubuntu-qa] Video Problems - Saucy

[Federico Leoni]

Ali,

P4 supports SSE2. Just do in a terminal

cat /proc/cpuinfo

and look under flags. :)

I take a look to this issues with Flash several time and the unique
solution I found is an abundant computing power.
I agree 100% with Leszek: that's out of our boundary, Adobe don't like
*nix platform and stop developing it time ago.
Problem is they left Flash Player in the worse state possible, using
an example the video of Naruto that Ali was seeing is an 80MB file
encoded in  MPEG4 640x360 with AAC audio. ON VLC or Gnomeplayer you
can see it without frame drops and smooth even on fullscreen. On
Chrome or FF you will experiment drops or slowdowns and that is
ridiculous. I did't try flash alternatives yet, but as soon as I can
I'll found an XP machine to test if it's the same thing and I'm quite
sure it will work better.

F.




2013/7/12 Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad at gmail.com>:
> Hello Leszek,
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > THIS IS NOT GOOD :(
>> >
>> > We need to solve this issue ASAP before we carry on with our Start
>> > Ubuntu
>> > campaign.
>>
>> How are we suppose to do this ?
>
>
> NO idea :D
>
>
>> The Adobe Flashplayer is proprietary software.
>> (and is simply talking crappy software)
>
>
> It seems only with Linux, it has these issues :(
>
>
>>
>> Alternatives like gnash or lightspark exists already. They support
>> graphic shardware way better than the Adobe Flashplayer however they don't
>>
>> support video flashsites too good (they were never really meant for this)
>
>
> browser-plugin-lightspark
>
> browser-plugin-gnash
>
> I tried to check these and it has tons of dependencies :( even more than
> what VLC has.
>
>
>> > Say, have anyone tried to play that on Windows XP? I have no XP
>> > installed
>> > on any of my machines. Is there someone with the same machine or close
>> > to
>> > it can play the same video on XP and see what happens?
>> >
>> > It would be really bad if XP will work better :(
>>
>> It will work better as Windows XP is supported way better by Adobe.
>
>
> That what I expected and was afraid of. This is bad/sad news :(
>
>
>>
>> Also notice that the Adobe Flash Player does not support non SSE2 capable
>> CPUs
>> under Linux  which the Adobe Flashplayer for Windows does. So basically a
>> old
>> computer with a non SSE2 capable CPU will run way better with Windows XP
>> when
>> it comes to Flash content.
>
>
> Again, bad/sad news :(
>
> http://phillw.net/hardware/BnA9pw11
> It does not show whether I have SSE2 or not.
>
> I need to check again on that machine, I'm on my Laptop right now.
>
>
>>
>> Sadly we can't really do anything about it.
>> As the flashplayer was abondend for mobile plattforms and linux I also
>> really
>> don't see any future for it currently.
>
>
> :(
>
>
>> What we could do is advice users to use either VLC (for youtube videos
>> that
>> aren't available as html5 video) or other alternatives (minitube, ...) .
>> That
>> will cover a lot of online video use cases but sadly not all.
>
>
> Which is not good enough and sad enough.
>
> Sigh!
>
>
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>
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>
> Best Regards,
> amjjawad
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>
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