HW Accelerated Flash Slows Full Screen Video Playback

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  1. oscar.lopez, Oct 16, 2010

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    I noticed that all the flash videos played inside Safari on my MBP were slow and choppy when switching to full screen mode. This started happening after upgrading to Flash 10.1 r85. I disabled hardware acceleration on Flash's settings, and video playback went back to normal.

    What can I do to use hardware accelerated Flash, but without the slowdowns?
     
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  2. spinnerlys, Oct 16, 2010

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    What exact/specific MBP do you have? Maybe its GPU is not supported by the new Flash version.
     
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  3. oscar.lopez, Oct 16, 2010

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    It's a mid-2010 MBP, 15-in, 2.66GHz Core i7, 8GB, with Intel HD Graphics with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM / NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 512MB of GDDR3
     
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  4. kgeier82, Oct 16, 2010

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    Maybe for some reason it isnt switching from the intel gfx to the 330m for the flash video. Sounds about right to me. Check it out with gfxstatus
     
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  5. Bill Gates, Oct 16, 2010

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    It's a bug in the latest flash player. Manually switch to the Nvidia GPU for smooth playback.
     
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  6. Raggy, Oct 16, 2010

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    Yes - what Mr Gates said. I did that before and it worked fine after. Machine seems to get very hot though - is that normal?
     
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  7. Bill Gates, Oct 16, 2010

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    "Very hot" is too subjective for us to say whether or not it's normal. It will definitely be noticeably hotter with the Nvidia GPU enabled though.
     
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  8. oscar.lopez, Oct 17, 2010

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    Thanks guys, gfxCardStatus solved the problem. Definitely a bug in Flash, it should be able to switch to the Nvidia card automatically.

    By the way, thanks to gfxCardStatus I also discovered that Skype turns on the Nvidia card, no matter what you're doing. Another bug.
     
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