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jemmi
Hi,
I just come back from some Adobe confs where they were talking about Flash Player 10.2 beta and Adobe Acrobat 10). So, Adobe did a few enhancements to these products. Seems they had some pressure of new techs like android, ipad and Google TV... So, what is interesting for us here is the enhancement brought to Flash Player 10.2 : the video acceleration.
Recently, i was used to use K-Meleon to reduce the amount of ressources allocated on my computer so i can play Flash more efficiently but now with this flash version, the internet is amazing. Now, by example on youtube, it seems that only the donwload time is a problem LOL... Well, beware because this is a beta version but seems to work fine. You can find it here : http://labs.adobe.com/
okay, i'm going to try Adobe X with kmeleon now. Have a nice end of year!
PS: from my previous posts at the beggining of the year, i talked about creating hard disk partitions dedicated the kmeleon cache and the system memory with dedicated block size. So you people were right, it is true that on windows if we move the virtual mermory files, a tiny virtual size is still required on hard disk C:. So i have a fixed size for my virtual mermory on my disk M: and a variable size allocated on drive C: This for preventing system crash...
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jemmi
@ndebord : I just have read another posts where you're talking about ram disk. Really interesting!!! cause you are on the way of the 'Netbook' concept(no mechanical drives). But my having 10 years old pc and xp sp3 pro, I only got 256MB and none of the 512MB required... So the solution i found out was : for improving speed the main idea for me was to reduce the hardware 'read/write' on my hard disk. I tried to improve the size of windows's read/write caches but no result... Fortunatly once i had to study filesystem basics for school and i understood that windows disk's C: is overloaded with too many features : virtual memory, temporary files, backups & restauration, setup & installs, profiles & cache, registries, ...). All this fighting with the 'My Documents' folder and the fragmentation making drive 'C:' a living nightmare. So with dedicated partitions and with a smaller filesystem tree in the temp partition : this helps a lot. So, coming back to my subject, i was suspicious about Flash for overloading not only the CPU but the hardware read/write too... but the video acceleration was the thing i wasn't expecting for : maximum performance on flash httpstreaming. Since SP2 support was cancelled by MS this summer, i thought XP of becoming the new win98 soon but now, i don't care! Without the flash problem : extra-time with XP and KM! i don't need to save FLV files on my hard disk any more, i can enjoy fast surfing and real full screen httpstreaming! That's why i'm so happy!!! Happy end of year!
Have they, finally, made a real hardware acceleration like ShockWave? (ShockWave used Direct3D and OpenGL to render) Are you telling this?Quote
jemmi
Flash Player 10.2 : the video acceleration
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jemmi
@ndebord : Jeez!!! :O you have 768MB RAM? Gosh, i understand why you are lonking around ramdrives
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disrupted
this beta version is no doubt eeasier on resources..thanks jeemi for the update
for those who want to try it without installation routine:
http://kmext.sourceforge.net/mplugs/NPSWF32-10.2.151.49-beta.7z
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Matt
@JujuLand
Don't know; I've never done this. disrupted always makes a patched version and puts it on kmext. So I guess we have to wait.
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888
...but what is the problem with flash player 10.2?
(I have just upgraded it to 10.2.152.26 and I haven't notice anything)
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888
...but what is the problem with flash player 10.2?
(I have just upgraded it to 10.2.152.26 and I haven't notice anything)
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snuz2
I think the patch they are speaking of is to prevent the deletion of downloaded flash from the \temp folder. This is one way of saving flash content such as music or video to a portable device. I don't like it because it really clogs up your disk with flash files. I like to use ClipConverter.com to extract flash, it's free and offloads the computation to somebody else as well...
The other patch would be to stop flash from saving "information" on which sites you visit on your computer, sometimes called "supercookies". I think there are kmeleon extensions which clean these up without patching flash.
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Yes, the pain is basically nonexistent if you know what you're doing! I have a program that runs at startup that cleans all the temp files older than a few days old. But is your batch distributed to users of hacked flash? Does anyone warn them of the problem of endlessly storing files on their machine? I was just warning them in case they don't know. It's a surprising side effect for naive users. But if you want to rip flashes from sites, no alternative!
If anyone wants my temp cleaner it is on msfn. Some programs used to store things there between boots ( like back in the 90's) which is why I don't just delete them on startup. HOpe nobody still does that.
A lot of people just want to download mp3 from youtube, I fall in that category, the clipconverter.cc is one of several sites that do it now that dirpy is gone. Grabs the clip and converts to audio in one shot. Just letting those who only need this know that there is an alternative.