How speed up/make smoother - video?

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I have a dual boot laptop with WinXP and Fedora 11. When I watch any flash video in Fedora, it's VERY choppy - sometimes so much that it's like stop-motion. In Windows, it runs super smoothly and fast. What settings/tuning can I do to make Fedora work better with the graphics card?

My computer's graphics card, etc:

Vendor:   Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Model:   Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GME GEM 20090114 x86/MMX/SSE2
Driver:   1.4 Mesa 7.5-devel

Processor (CPU):   Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
Speed:  1,600.00 MHz
Cores:  2

Total memory (RAM):  995.7 MB
Free memory:  492.7 MB (+ 290.1 MB Caches)
Free swap:  2.0 GB

[Hlingler]

Tried setting the flash options, like cache? What web browser are you using?? What flash plug-in (Adobe or that gnash thing)???

Please post results of command:
glxinfo|grep render

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[6tr6tr]

Thanks for the help!

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Tried setting the flash options, like cache? What web browser are you using?? What flash plug-in (Adobe or that gnash thing)???

I'm using Flash 10 (downloaded from Adobe). Where can I alter the cache? I don't see the option under firefox's add-ons/plugins window.

I'm using Firefox 3.0.11.

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Please post results of command:
glxinfo|grep render

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GME GEM 20090114 x86/MMX/SSE2

[Hlingler]

Right-click (once) on any flash player box. You should get a small pop-up, with about 5 tabs at bottom - the 3rd if I recall correctly has a slider to adjust cache. 100 KB is default. I usually increase to 1 MB or even 10 MB. Settings apply only to one web URL (including sub-domains) - you must repeat for any other domains.

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[6tr6tr]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Right-click (once) on any flash player box. You should get a small pop-up, with about 5 tabs at bottom - the 3rd if I recall correctly has a slider to adjust cache. 100 KB is default. I usually increase to 1 MB or even 10 MB. Settings apply only to one web URL (including sub-domains) - you must repeat for any other domains.

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Thanks, that's ridiculous that there's no option to change the cache size for flash as a whole.

What about other things I can do to improve the speed in fedora?

[Hlingler]

General: stop/disable unnecessary system services: http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f11.html
FireFox tweaks: http://www.linuxscrew.com/2007/11/01...really-matter/, http://fedoraguide.info/index.php?ti...Firefox_Tweaks

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[Hlingler]

Additional: since glxinfo shows Direct Rendering working with Mesa 3D/DRI driver, you can also try video driver optimizations:
yum install driconf

Run it the first time only as root user (from console, command: driconf) to generate a default /etc/drirc file. Exit. Then from menus, open driconf as any normal user, and play with any/all available settings. I cannot guide you, as the available settings depend entirely on your specific hardware and driver. Re-start of X usually not required. Assess impact of settings on performance. Play around, mix-and-match, see what (if anything) helps.

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[6tr6tr]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Additional: since glxinfo shows Direct Rendering working with Mesa 3D/DRI driver, you can also try video driver optimizations:
yum install driconf

Run it the first time only as root user (from console, command: driconf) to generate a default /etc/drirc file. Exit. Then from menus, open driconf as any normal user, and play with any/all available settings. I cannot guide you, as the available settings depend entirely on your specific hardware and driver. Re-start of X usually not required. Assess impact of settings on performance. Play around, mix-and-match, see what (if anything) helps.

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Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately, it doesn't help. I only get three options (for any application) and none of them seem to do anything. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

The problem is definitely Fedora-related as the exact same computer when running windows, runs the same flash videos perfectly. So there's go to be a software solution here.