[Tfug] Debian Firefox Youtube Slow

[Predrag Punosevac]

FreeBSD has a serious problems with Flash so maybe our experience can help  
you.
The best solution is actually to snap the video with application youtube  
-dl or clive.
You will get a file of the format .flv which can be seen with MPlayer and  
VLC (No other application will
be able to open .flv file). The application clive has an additional  
feature that enable you to
convert format .flv into something friendlier to other media players.

The adds on for Firefox that claim that can snap the video did not work  
for me.

Gnash in FreeBSD behaves in the same fashion as flash plug in for Debian.  
It is good for little flash.

Flash plug in (Linux of course since there is no native for BSD) works in  
FreeBSD but
will completely freeze the browser on the sites with "too" much flush as  
YouTube or
Google video.

Currently there is no way that you can play video games with lots of flash  
on FreeBSD. I hope Debian is better
than us about that matter.

Sincerely,
Predrag


P. S. OpenBSD (which I have on one old Pentium III) sucks so badly with  
things like that that is not even worthy of
trying to use it for something like that.












On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:20:52 -0700, Choprboy <choprboy at dakotacom.net>  
wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 October 2007 23:40, Charles R. Kiss wrote:
>> If I have about four or five, or so, tabs sequentially opened, in
>> Firefox, by Youtube, the videos start loading, not simultaneously, but
>> one after another, say over a period of one minute, and things quickly
>> become very slow.   And if I wait, and wait, and perhaps open another
>> tab, things get even slower to the point of alomost comepletely hanging
> ...
>> But Firefox is definitely still acting very slow in YouTube, (and maybe
>> some other video storage sites -I'm not sure).
>
>
> I have been seeing the same thing... on Youtube and other video sites. In
> fact, rather than being slow, Firefox will completely freeze and become
> unresponsive (have to forcefully kill it) while using 80-100% CPU. I  
> think,
> though have not been able to confirm, that this infact a problem with
> Macromedia Flash... Seems something they did in their Flash player  
> release
> several months back has caused a looping condition and periods of poor
> response. But I haven;t been able to nail down exactly what it is. So  
> far I
> haven;t caught anything immediately apparent doing straces on FF.
>
> Adrian
>
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