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Adobe Suggests Disabled Hardware Acceleration for Flash Player in OS X Lion
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Pixelmator still lacks necessary tools that are included in Photoshop like Path tools, etc.
You ran Mac OS on Pentium II 333mhz? wowExcept again if those "issues" are not Adobe but Apple issues. Wait and see before you start name calling.
I used Flash back in my Pentium II 333 mhz days to watch vertex based animations/movies and play games. It worked like a charm. Flash's "CPU hog" reputation comes from its software decoder for video.
Seriously folks, wait and see. Less egg on your face if you happen to be 100% wrong. We don't know the source of the problem yet, there's no reason to lambast Apple or Adobe in this. It could simply be a bug.
Microsoft used VDA.Or maybe they used QTkit, but that prevents them from doing post on frames before displaying them. Which with Flash would break a lot of existing functionality.
QTKit shipped earlier, but not by much (see the post by Eidorian) and was completely inadequate.
Microsoft used VDA... or Or maybe they used QTkit or maybe they used voodoo magic.. or maybe MS and apple had backroom dealings or maybe Apple hate Flash, or maybe Adobe tried to fix Flash for Lion and Apple sent ninja to kill their Flash plugin programmers and wipe their harddrive.
right IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW, before Apple calling out Adobe, Apple used voodoo magic to block Adobe from having access to core animation framework!
"With OS X Lion now hiding the user Library folder by default, users may need to use Finder's "Go to Folder" command to access preferences and other user settings for Adobe applications."
Well, there is just example of Apple dumbing down for the masses. Eventually, they will have all their software locked down so that you will be using the settings Apple thinks is best for you, and only if the software is being served from their app store. Linux is looking better every day, and in the near future, I will probably using Apple only for their iToys... unless I go with Android.
Well, there is just example of Apple dumbing down for the masses. Eventually, they will have all their software locked down so that you will be using the settings Apple thinks is best for you, and only if the software is being served from their app store. Linux is looking better every day, and in the near future, I will probably using Apple only for their iToys... unless I go with Android.
I love how people always complain about how bad flash is because of the high CPU usage.
Has any of you tried to put oh say a hundred or more picture on your ipad/iphone via itunes?
It usues 100% of my processor, makes my macpro heat up to 100celcius and generally takes forever...
Not to mention the "optimizing" of the pictures is horrible....
And thats NOT an adobe product... OS X has major issues with certain things, so i would not be sure its just "Adobe's" problem.
Since i never have my PC hit 100% CPU used and i use adobe products as a photographer/web developer all the time on windows 7.
Has any of you tried to put oh say a hundred or more picture on your ipad/iphone via itunes?
It usues 100% of my processor, makes my macpro heat up to 100celcius and generally takes forever...
Not to mention the "optimizing" of the pictures is horrible....
And thats NOT an adobe product... OS X has major issues with certain things, so i would not be sure its just "Adobe's" problem.
Since i never have my PC hit 100% CPU used and i use adobe products as a photographer/web developer all the time on windows 7.
good luck with that - sure some silly ipad photo programe will be better for you - make sure to put it on your resume as well -
we always have a nice laugh at the office when we see them
So turn off the reverse scrolling (Natural)
Whats the big deal. It's just an option. Not like anyone is forcing you to use it. If there was no turn-off option, you would have a gripe.
I dislike reverse scrolling too. TURNED IT OFF
I didn't see where he called any names... but whatever. So, you don't like Adobe? It's no secret that Apple doesn't want Flash on their machines because it shows the limitations of the hardware. Apple also doesn't like another company to have such popularity unless they get a piece of the action. Apple and Adobe fighting is not a good thing for consumers. Adobe does what it does best and so does Apple. Without Adobe, you might as well kiss all professional development goodbye on the Mac platform. Of course, with the discontinuation of Final Cut Studio, and the dumbing down of their OS by turning it into an iOS hybrid - I would say that Apple doesn't care. Apple is working towards getting out of that market in favor of being solely a consumer content/devices company. Adobe doesn't serve that model and they create hardware/software challenges that makes Apple look bad.
safari is garbage get over it - why they do not even mention it anymore and Chrome is at 20 market share
http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/07/01/google-chrome-has-20-market-share-firefox-in-its-sights/
OK, so here's my long overdue Adobe rant. I've been a designer for 20 years and up until about 6 years ago genuinely thought that Adobe were the dog's b0llcks. Since then...
Firstly, don't even get me started on pricing for UK customers or offering PhotoShop 7 owners a £300 upgrade path to the full CS3 when full CS2 owners (who spent £1200) had to pay £800...?
More importantly, day in and day out, why... in an integrated "Suite"... do I single click a colour in Photoshop to edit it, and double click in Illustrator? Why can I drag a stroke colour to the fill square in Illustrator but not drag the background colour to the foreground square in Photoshop (perhaps to use as the basis for a slight variant)? Why can I drag a colour to the palette in .ai but not in .ps? Why can I not round corners of a square in .ai the way I do in Indesign? Why does pathfinder work differently in .indd and ai?
These are just a few of hundreds of minor issues. So small that they should not even find their way onto a forum. And by CS5 they are not sorted. Granted, I've not bought CS5.5 as I've had enough of Adobe now, but jeez... by version 5 they're still working in separate rooms...?
Adobe of late is lazy. End of. They lack intuition, their software is buggy (I have 16gb of RAM and .ps still likes to quit out on me with alarming regularity) and they could not be ar5ed to get .ps up to 64 bit when the likes of Maxon (who probably had a much easier job, to be fair) were 64 bit with C4D in days.
Flash is becoming a joke. Yes, we all still claim we 'need' it because there's so much out there that uses it, but that does not mean its any good...today. Flash's day is going fast. Javascript, CSS3 and HTML5 will make everyone see, bit by bit, just how seriously flawed and out of date it is. Those who pine its loss should fire off a letter to Steve asking if he can bring floppy drives back. Heck, we all mourned their loss because we had loads of stuff written to them, but we were wrong. Floppies weren't the future and they needed to go, however hard the wrench.
Adobe... meet Frank Gallagher (Literally a shameless layabout)
Flash... meet floppy disk.
Just for reference, flash on android, outside of playing occasional videos is a total joke, and even that is hit or miss depending on your hardware. Cant blame apple for that. In this case, id have to agree with steve.
I kinda have a feeling Apple wants to make flash look bad by deliberately disabling hardware acceleration for it. Then they can blame Adobe for not updating it and Apple gets one more excuse to forbid it on iOS.
with 4% of global PC market share and SAFARI no where near Firefox, Chome and IE nobody will notice
iOS devices get sent to mobile sites anyway
relax
Yea, I'm sure that Apple will be the death of flash since they are the dominant player in the computer world and most computers are Macs.
Be careful, people won't like you if post things like that.
You have made a very sensible, logical statement. Unfortunately, there is little sense of logic here outside of "Apple is the best" "Flash sucks" etc.
Tell that to the millions that do.
Another sensible, logical, open minded reply. It won't be well received here.
It sounds like your Mac is a lemon.
Have you checked your memory? One bad region can cause a problem in some instances, but not in others.
Just for reference, I tried that site on my MacBook Pro (10.6.8) via Chrome, FireFox, and Safari and it caused no problems.
For more reference and just because I can, I tried it on my BlackBerry PlayBook, my ASUS Transformer, and my Nexus One. And I'm happy to report that NONE of them crashed. I would test it on my iPad, but Apple doesn't support any 3rd party plug-in for "business" reasons..
They were too busy preparing for the rush of Mac users deserting Final Cut and switching to Adobe since the new version of Final Cut is so so lame.
When as Apple offered the same courtesy to Adobe in the past ? Seriously, wasn't it Steve Jobs that called them lazy, which is the oft repeated mantra around here...
No, I do think that they didn't have to be courteous seeing the circumstances. Apple has been nothing be arrogant towards Adobe. I don't see where they deserve such respect.
Oh boy, now you're going to upset the loyalists.
I have on old Windows XP computer with a Pentium 4 that still handles flash without any problems at all. What's Apples problem with this?
As far as I am concerned, this is one the reasons to upgrade to Lion. That much closer to getting rid of all Microsoft and Adobe products. Think of it this way, one of the 12 steps (pun intended) to being Adobe free.
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I just tried a couple of youtube 1080p videos on my mid-2010 MBP (just one generation before the Sandy Bridge) and they ran smooth as butter. My CPU use stayed at around 8%. Before anyone asks, I was not using the HTML5 version of youtube.
XBMC is also running brilliantly with 1080p stuff using VDA.
Can someone provide a link to a youtube video that has problems?
I just tried a couple of youtube 1080p videos on my mid-2010 MBP (just one generation before the Sandy Bridge) and they ran smooth as butter. My CPU use stayed at around 8%. Before anyone asks, I was not using the HTML5 version of youtube.
XBMC is also running brilliantly with 1080p stuff using VDA.
Can someone provide a link to a youtube video that has problems?
I feel you on that. It's like Steve Jo- Big Brother thinks everyone is an idiot and needs to have their hand held when using a computer.... which is actually true, most people especially mac users but for those of us who are tech savvy and bought a mac for legit reasons are now slowly getting the shaft.
I remember when Apple used to care about its computers. Those days are long gone.
No, they needed the framework because there was no other way to support hardware accelerated decoding of h.264 on OS X for something like Flash that requires decoded frames, not just a control that plays back video. Lazyness has nothing to do with it.
VDA is the only low-level framework on OS X that gives them this functionality. It appeared in April of 2010. The Flash player that supported it shipped in April 2010.
That isn't lazy, that's waiting on Apple.
Maybe if you want some credibility, you could offer another solution they could have used ? I'm waiting, oh great OS X software developer.
you wont get one because he is not a developer just like everyone talking nonsense about Adobe (and mentioning Pixelmaker) is not a designer
this is the iOS generation, you can not ask hard questions anymore
This confused me until I realized they were mimicking the action of iOS devices. Once I got that straight in my brain, it was less of an issue.
Amazing how engrained the traditional scrolling is though.