Flash Video -- help!

[Ijaaz A. Ullah]

Are you using the NV or nvidia drivers?  I find that the stock NV driver
isn't very good.  Use the one from nvidia.com or if you are on fedora or
CentOS, grab it from atrpms.
On Feb 7, 2011 3:31 PM, "William Park" <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> To those who are watching Flash Video without any problem, I'd appreciate
some
> insights and pointers!
>
> My problem:
>
> Flash Video is slightly choppy at full screen. My monitor is 1600x1200,
> so I guess the full screen video is 1600x900.
>
> What I have:
>
> - Athlon II X2 260 (dual-core, 3.2GHz, 2MB)
> - nVidia GeForce 8500
> - Firefox 4 (beta)
> - Adobe Flash Player 64-bit "square" preview version
> - kernel 2.6.37 (x86_64, SMP, preemptive)
>
> What I want:
>
> Smooth Flash Video at full screen.
>
> What should I do?
>
> 1. Should I upgrade the video card to GeForce 430 ? I borrowed GeForce
> 250, and did see some improvement but not that much. GeForce 430 is
advertised
> to be better at "multimedia" things.
>
> 2. Should I get a whole new computer? Eg. i7-870 quad-core which goes
> up to 3.6GHz, assuming Turbo Boost works. My current computer is already
3.2GHz
> dual-core, so I don't think similar i3/i5 will bring a substantial
speedup.
> Then, again, may be they might. I don't know.
>
> Any advice will be appreciated.
> --
> William
>
>
>
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