I've been having playback issues with Flash in Lupu 528 in Firefox. The machine is older, but I've read of other people with similar hardware specs (or even somewhat less hardware specs) having no issues with Flash so I am wondering what is different on my machine that could be preventing it from working properly?
The specs are: 1.6ghz Pentium 4 single-core, 768mbs RAM, 128mb Sapphire Radeon 9600XT with 512mb of Swap.
Playback is very skippy while loading videos, but if I even let them buffer to completion, they are still very laggy. I'm not home right now so I'm not sure what version of Flash is installed (although I know I got it from the Repos), but I know I've got the latest version of Firefox installed on it (16.0.2 I think?) It's odd because the skipping is random...at times it will seem to play almost perfectly, and at other times, it will skip with no frame changes for seconds and seconds on end. I always hear the audio perfectly though. I even set videos on Youtube to their lowest quality which seems to make no difference.
Am I just being overly optimistic about my hardware? To be clear, I'm not expecting it to run videos in 720p or anything, just the usual 320 or 480 options you often find. I know it's an older machine, but I would think on a light OS like Puppy that flash would run decently (excluding the fact that Adobe's Linux support is terrible).
Is there anything I can try to have flash work more smoothly? I usually only have JUST Firefox open when trying to watch videos, so it's not that any other program is taking up the resources. The only other "program" I have open at all times is Pwidgets with a clock, RAM and CPU monitor, calendar and weather. I've also gone through and removed a lot of packages I don't use and disabled many startup items I don't use as well.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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