<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=mark></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=mark>This is in responce to "<STRONG>Michael Haney</STRONG> " E-mail about Flash video </SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=mark>>The one thing that has really irked me for a long time is the piss poor performance of Flash video on Linux. </SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=mark></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=mark>Ok Michael, </SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=mark></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=mark></SPAN>I do not know if this will help you but it did for me. I keep a copy of what I did in and E-mail to myself.</DIV> <DIV>So when I do a reinstall I can do it again as it has always been an issue for me.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I also had issues with Flash and full-screen video.</DIV> <DIV>The video played back jerky in full screen, would play then seem to stop for a moment then continue and stop for a moment again.</DIV> <DIV>The also was an issue with chewing up all kinds of CPU.</DIV> <DIV>I found the below links when researching. Below the links are the basic steps I took(Just in case the links are not good anymore).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.webupd8.org/2009/07/speed-up-flash-and-firefox-in-ubuntu.html">http://www.webupd8.org/2009/07/speed-up-flash-and-firefox-in-ubuntu.html</A> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://allredb.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/speed-up-flash-and-firefox-in-ubuntu-jaunty-904/">http://allredb.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/speed-up-flash-and-firefox-in-ubuntu-jaunty-904/</A> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/346289" target=_blank rel=nofollow>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/346289</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1. Type the following command in a terminal: <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>sudo mkdir /etc/adobe<BR>echo "OverrideGPUValidation=true" >~/mms.cfg<BR>sudo mv ~/mms.cfg /etc/adobe/</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>2. Type the following command in a terminal:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>sudo gedit /etc/init.d/ondemand</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>and paste this inside that file:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>for CPU_THRESHOLD in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold<BR>do<BR>[ -f $CPU_THRESHOLD ] || continue<BR>echo -n 40 > $CPU_THRESHOLD<BR>done</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>The file basically needs to look like this:</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>case "$1" in<BR> start)<BR> start-stop-daemon --start --background --exec /etc/init.d/ondemand -- background <BR> ;; <BR> background)<BR> sleep 60 # probably enough time for desktop login<BR> for CPUFREQ in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor<BR> do <BR> [ -f $CPUFREQ ] || continue <BR> echo -n ondemand > $CPUFREQ <BR> done <BR> </DIV> <DIV> for CPU_THRESHOLD in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold <BR> do <BR> [ -f $CPU_THRESHOLD ] || continue echo -n 40 > $CPU_THRESHOLD <BR> done </DIV> <DIV><BR> ;; <BR> restart|reload|force-reload)<BR> echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2 <BR> exit 3 <BR> ;; <BR> stop)<BR> ;; <BR> *)<BR> echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2<BR> exit 3 <BR> ;;<BR> esac</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div><br> </body></html>