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From: d4g4h4 on 12 Aug 2010 08:54 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > [snip] > > > Flash seems to have trouble on PPC Macs, I have noticed that. > > > > > > My old 4G5 couldn't render HD BBC streams totally smoothly - it did okay > > > until you got slow wide panning shots, which always stuttered, but: CPU > > > load remained at about 70%/4. > > > > > > On my Intel iMac, HD streams work more smoothly, and CPU load goes above > > > 100%/2. > > > > > > <shrug> No idea, no idea at all. > > > > > > I suspect you'd find that my 1GHz G4 iLamp renders the pages in question > > > in a fraction of the time you're seeing on your sluggish Mac. I don't > > > see any reason to think that you're up against a CPU limit here, given > > > how my ancient iLamp performs. > > > > > > What *IS* the CPU in your older MacBook? > > > > It's 2GHz Intel Core Duo with 1.5 GB RAM, running 10.6.4. > > Well, a 1GHz G4 with 768MB RAM running 10.4.11 can render the BBC pages > in question without sluggishness, and can play the video okay just so > long as I make sure there's plenty of RAM free. Otherwise, the page > loads quickly enough, audio plays fine, but the video is just a series > of unconnected stills. > > So whatever's wrong in this case, it's *certain* that the CPU in the > MacBook is not the limit in this case, given the adequate performance of > my 1GHz G4 iLamp on the same pages. > > I mean, think about it - your problem machine has a 2GHz 64 bit two core > CPU which is admittedly not as fast as a quad G5 at streaming > operations, but it knocks a 1GHz G4 into a cocked hat. > > (yes okay so you're probably not getting any benefit from the 64-bitness > in this case, but still...) You were right- see my post on the fix, which was just changing the flash settings! -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Rowland McDonnell on 12 Aug 2010 09:31
David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: [snip] > You were right- see my post on the fix, which was just changing the > flash settings! <grin> Good-oh. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |