CentOS - Apr 2011 - interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've done
the "try this!" and "try that!" method and it hasn't
worked well.  So
I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working.

Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes
long.  However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%,
sometimes even 100%!  If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%.
(For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed
to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)

So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a
video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity
begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.

What's everyone else's experience with this?  Does anyone have a setup
where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in
their editor alongside it at the same time?  If so, would you be open to
explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this works
so well?


Thanks.

-- 
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On Sunday 03 April 2011 18:41, ken wrote:
> For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've
> done the "try this!" and "try that!" method and it
hasn't worked
> well.  So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on
> Firefox working.
Are you perhaps confusing Shockwave and Flash? Most videos on the Web 
are in Flash format. Simply install flash-plugin, available on 
RPMForge, http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge

Regards,

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At Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:41:35 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
> 
> For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've
done
> the "try this!" and "try that!" method and it
hasn't worked well.  So
> I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox
working.
> 
> Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes
> long.  However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%,
> sometimes even 100%!  If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%.
> (For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed
> to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)
> 
> So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a
> video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity
> begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.
> 
> What's everyone else's experience with this?  Does anyone have a
setup
> where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in
> their editor alongside it at the same time?  If so, would you be open to
> explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this
works
> so well?
I am able to watch 1/2 hour TV shows with
flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-release from Adobe's repo in Firefox
(firefox-3.6.13-2.el5.centos), on my i686 IBM ThinkPad X31 laptop
(which has 512Meg of memory and a 1700MHz, Pentium M processor), using
CentOS 5.5.  The CPU does get hot (the fan fires up sometimes). Oh, I
use a *very* lightweight X11 setup: I don't use GNome or KDE or any
sort of 'Desktop Manager' system at all. Just FVWM in MWM mode.
Virtually NO 'eye candy' at all.  My system boots to runlevel 3 and
I fire up X11 from my login.

I have made no attempt to watch longer videos with flash.  I do watch
3-5 minute music videos all the time, but I use mplayer for those (even
the FLV files I have downloaded from YouTube).
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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ken wrote:
> For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've
done
> the "try this!" and "try that!" method and it
hasn't worked well.  So
> I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox
working.
>
> Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes
> long.  However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%,
> sometimes even 100%!  If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%.
> (For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed
> to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)
>
> So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a
> video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity
> begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.
>
> What's everyone else's experience with this?  Does anyone have a
setup
> where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in
> their editor alongside it at the same time?  If so, would you be open to
> explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this
works
> so well?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
Shockwave flash 10.1.r85 from adobe works okay on my CentOS 5.5 on 
kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5.centos.plus with firefox 3.6.13 x86_64 version
HTH
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One other factor might be video hardware acceleration.  Of those who
have Shockwave working, are you also running VHA??

On 04/03/2011 06:41 PM ken wrote:
> For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos.  I've
done
> the "try this!" and "try that!" method and it
hasn't worked well.  So
> I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox
working.
> 
> Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three minutes
> long.  However, when Shockwave is enabled, CPU usage jumps to 99%,
> sometimes even 100%!  If I disable it CPU usage goes down to 1 - 5%.
> (For those who speak load avg, I've seen highs of 6 and 8... as opposed
> to the no Shockwave-now of 0.14 to 0.45.)
> 
> So with the CPU already buried just by having Shockwave is enabled, if a
> video lasts longer than four minutes, gaps in the video's continuity
> begin to appear, and by ten minutes in the video is locked up altogether.
> 
> What's everyone else's experience with this?  Does anyone have a
setup
> where they can view a 1.5-hour video normally... and maybe even work in
> their editor alongside it at the same time?  If so, would you be open to
> explaining what hardware and software etc. you've got so that this
works
> so well?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
>

Robert Heller wrote:
> At Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:39:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list
<centos at centos.org> wrote:
>> Robert Heller wrote:
>> > At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list
>> <centos at centos.org>
>> > wrote:
>> <snip>
>> > And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it
plays flash
videos just fine there.  [*I* have no use for nVidia's drive -- I
don't do 3D modeling or video games, etc.]
>>
>> Unfortunately, you *do* need nVidia's proprietary driver if
you've got
dual monitors, like a lot of places I've worked in the last few
years.
>
> I have just the one 17" VGA monitor.  Don't have room for either a
larger monitor or a second one.  And I am not sure what I would do with
a second monitor if I had one.

Lessee, last place I worked, not sure about the one before that, and where
I work now, almost everyone has dual monitors. It's the "in
thing". (We
won't talk about my co-worker, who seems to remember fondly when he was in
the NOC, with three? four? monitors....)

          mark "only has two eyeballs"