[arch-general] Terrible flash performance

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On 03/01/12 at 01:58pm, Vladimir Nikšić wrote:
> I have an ongoing problem with flash performance. I tried installing
> flashplugin-11.1.102.55-1 from the pacman repositories. The videos
> on youtube for example, works fine as long as I don't turn on
> fullscreen. The video gets really choppy and the CPU usage spikes to
> 100% (one core). I have a Core2Duo on 2ghz. A couple of months ago I
> switched from Ubuntu where youtube was working essentially
> flawlessly, fullscreen or not.
> 
> The same issue occurs on manually downloaded the latest 64bit
> libflashplayer.so from adobe's site. Does anyone have similar
> issues? I also <F11>have an Nvidia card which unfortunately does not
> support GPU acceleration.

Try flashplugin-beta from AUR. It works for me much better than flashplugin from
extra repository.
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