[Swfdec] SwfdecMozilla 100% cpu usage on Youtube

[Magnus Hjorth]

Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote:
> Magnus Hjorth ha scritto:
>> I am using an old ATI Radeon 9550, and I have been experiencing 100% 
>> CPU usage, stuttering and loss of sync when viewing Youtube movies 
>> for quite a long time now (since Swfdec v 0.6.x, now using 0.8.2). 
>> Didn't bother to report it because I've seen bugzilla entries such as 
>> 10385 where X is blamed. However, I've been through one full 
>> distribution update (Ubuntu) since then and the problem seems to 
>> persist. Tried various parameters, like switching between EXA/XAA but 
>> only managed to make the situation worse.
> Youtube playback is quite good with swfdec on an athlon xp 2600+ and 
> radeon 9250 machine. I have these options inside Device section of my 
> xorg.conf:
>
>         Option          "AGPMode"               "4"
>         Option          "EnablePageFlip"        "true"
>         Option          "AccelMethod"           "EXA"
>         Option          "AccelDFS"              "true"
Thanks for the tip. Didn't make that much of a difference for me though, 
I estimate that I get about 8-10 fps windowed and 1-2 fps fullscreen 
with these settings..  I have an AMD sempron 3000+ by the way.

Regards,
Magnus