Radeon R300: flash exposes terrible EXA performance

[Corbin Simpson]

My solution for Flash Video is still to download the video data separately
and play it in a Real Video Player. If there's not already a megavideo-dl,
somebody should write one.

Sending from a mobile, pardon the brevity. ~ C.

On Sep 19, 2010 11:47 AM, "Dennis J." <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:
> On 09/19/2010 04:45 PM, Miguel Angel Alvarez wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I've found that lately flash video performance is terrible when using
EXA, to
>> the point of being a slideshow with 100% cpu usage. The only workaround
to
>> get decent performance has been to switch to old XAA acceleration.
>>
>> I have a R300 video card (ATI Radeon 9550). I've tested with Xorg 7.4 and
Xorg
>> 7.5, driver xf86-video-ati 6.13.1 and a late git build, in a opensuse
linux
>> system. I don't know if this affects other Radeon cards.
>> Test site: megavideo.com
>> Should I file a bug?
>
> I've also seen similar issues with a more recent card (HD4850):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553059
>
> The sysprof profile in that bug shows some interrupt stuff going on there
> that might point to the problem but so far I couldn't get anyone to take a

> closer look at this.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
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