Re: [Gnash] Fwd: Question about Gnash

[Rob Savoye]

On 01/20/10 19:20, Paul Castellano wrote:

> I am trying to find a movie player that will run high quality video that is
> becoming more and more available on internet sites such as youtube. My
> system runs a Linux OS on Intel atom 950 chipset (GMA 950 graphics.) I have
> the latest adobe Flash 10.1 installed but some videos, generally the highest
> quality ones such as 1080p and 720p are still very choppy. Will gnash run
> these videos more smoothly?

  In the future, yes. There is work being done to integrate support for
hardware video decoding, although I doubt it'll be in the upcoming
release. When this is complete, 1080p videos should work fine. Gnash can
play 1080p video now, it's just that it has to be decoded in software,
which causes the obvious performance problems.

        - rob -