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["Ali Linx (amjjawad)" <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Sensei,


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have one of these... http://phillw.net/hardware/aDU4RVzY A Win7 machine
> with a decent graphic card and 4 GB of RAM. When ever I play flash movies
> in a browser, the CPU usage goes from a quiet
>
>
Your machine is definitely better than mine.



> Tasks: 176 total,   1 running, 174 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> %Cpu(s):  9.5 us,  4.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 83.8 id,  2.5 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
>  0.0 st
> KiB Mem:   3787680 total,  3233020 used,   554660 free,   173552 buffers
> KiB Swap: 10166660 total,    30136 used, 10136524 free,   928556 cached
>
> To...:
>
> Tasks: 178 total,   3 running, 174 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 43.8 us, 27.6 sy,  0.0 ni, 26.9 id,  1.2 wa,  0.5 hi,  0.0 si,
>  0.0 st
> KiB Mem:   3787680 total,  3332436 used,   455244 free,   174216 buffers
> KiB Swap: 10166660 total,    30136 used, 10136524 free,   937980 cached
>
> Playing Video via a browser is 'expensive'... now let me try it with the
> downloaded version of same video.. :
>
> Tasks: 181 total,   1 running, 179 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> %Cpu(s): 16.9 us,  3.7 sy,  0.0 ni, 76.1 id,  3.2 wa,  0.2 hi,  0.0 si,
>  0.0 st
> KiB Mem:   3787680 total,  3340228 used,   447452 free,   175168 buffers
> KiB Swap: 10166660 total,    30136 used, 10136524 free,   986256 cached
>
>
That indeed proves what I'm talking about is correct. The problem with the
video not anything else. But, to address this issue correctly, is it a
Flash Issue? A Video Card issue that is too weak to handle it? what exactly
is going on? just curious and I'd like to understand what is happening.

By the way, let's NOT forget that when you 'download' that Flash Video and
watch it 'locally' on your machine via a program like 'VLC', then it is
totally different. Definitely, the performance won't be the same. Playing
Local File is not like playing it on other resources. The machine will
handle the browser, the protocol, the internet connection, the video, etc
etc.



> Now, this time the machine is playing the flash video in VLC (That is a
> new programme started). So, browsers do not like playing flash movies....
> which oddly enough is not that suprising as they are browsers and not media
> players like VLC is). The sooner we are rid of flash, the better.
>

We are in 2013 so a Browser nowadays is not like what we used to 10 years
ago. Everything and everyone nowadays are tending to use All-in-One
device/technology.




> Ali, if you want, I'll do a compare of html5 vs flash on you-tube to also
> show you the difference in CPU time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>


YES please, you know I love testing and experiments :D

Thanks a lot :)


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