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The Adobe people might not be that lazy after all!
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I just tried Flash 10.1 beta and it solved the overheating issue that I had when watchin videos on my 06 17" C2D! No more blow-dryer background sound when I'm watchin videos on the net anymore! Who needs Arrandale?
The one leads to the other, lower CPU usage results in less power drawn, thus less heat is created and therefore radiated.
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Lazy????? Naahhh. They decided to take 14 years to fix it, they did it on purpose, just because they could.
Adobe is a shame of a company, they don't deserve the "success" that have and well, karma's a bitch...
People are realizing this now and it might be too little, too late.
Adobe is a shame of a company, they don't deserve the "success" that have and well, karma's a bitch...
People are realizing this now and it might be too little, too late.
awesome! your thread reminded me that I wanted to do this. I tested with a 720p HD youtube video.
Before 10.1 beta 2 --> 64.7% CPU usage
After 10.1 beta 2 --> 34% CPU usage
that is great.
Before 10.1 beta 2 --> 64.7% CPU usage
After 10.1 beta 2 --> 34% CPU usage
that is great.
If this is really true, this looks like a very significant improvement in performance! Thanks for checking this out!
So with all the criticism Adobe seems to be doing something and what about all the years they didn't? Sounds pretty lazy to me. With all the talk about people wanting to replace Flash altogether this is more of a preservation act by Adobe IMO.
I don't really care what Adobe does at this point because time and time again we are reminded about what happens when one company dominates a market. Once the pressure is off Adobe to improve we will see this happen again.
I don't really care what Adobe does at this point because time and time again we are reminded about what happens when one company dominates a market. Once the pressure is off Adobe to improve we will see this happen again.
Apple is more than partly to blame for Adobes 'laziness'. Linux and Windows have much better functionality between the the core driver system and the application control than OSX. Even the Flash 10.1 beta doesnt use GPU accerleration on Macs - its Apple faults, not Adobes. Apple wont open up the libraries neccessary.
The fact that the Flash 10.1 beta shows improvements just proves that Adobe is capable of making a better performing Flash for Mac despite any obstacles. Adobe chose not to do anything about it until now.
By Apple opening certain libraries, Mac OS X would also open itself up to more vulnerabilities.
And as you can see from the current beta, it even works without those libraries.
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You must be such a hoot at parties.
+1. Adobe used to be a great software company until they started having no competition, now they are a crapware company.
I can't even begin to tell you the crazy amount of problems Acrobat alone causes. Their Master collections have suffered as well since CS2 (CS2 being the last good/rock solid release IMO.)
On Windows and (maybe?) Linux.
GPU acceleration isn't necessary for low CPU usage on OS X. VLC, Mplayer, and even Quicktime/Quicktime X can play h.264 video at reasonable CPU levels while Flash has struggled with this for a long time.
Why does Adobe need access to APIs that the rest of the players don't?
I'm not going to defend Apple here. They should be improving the GPU acceleration availability and the hardware capability usage a lot more than they are (maybe in 10.7?), but Adobe can't put the blame squarely on Apple.
Adobe writes crap software. It's well known and it's unacceptable.
I agree flash causes alot of problems but how can you say they produce crap software. What about Photoshop and After Effects? Two great programs which I first used on Mac OS tiger.
It should be noted that Flash wasn't originally an Adobe product, they acquired it as part of Macromedia back in 2005...the problem is, they then did absolutely nothing with it until the past few months.
I don't think it matters if it was acquired or not. 5 years is more than enough time to get it working with full 64bit capability and next to no excess CPU usage.
Instead we have Flash 10.1. What a joke.
It doesnt. In comparison the the windows or Linux versions of flash OSX is a joke.
Also, im NOT saying Adobe isnt feeling heat due to Apple, but realize this beta came out well before all of the iPad stuff hit the market. This beta came out in December I believe.
"Apple is a shame of a company, they don't deserve the "success" that have and well, karma's a bitch...
People are realizing this now and it might be too little, too late."
Fixed it for you
To be fair, without Flash, the web as we know it wouldn't exist. It provided one of the easiest ways to get rich media content to users via the web.
To be even more fair, it's going the way of the dinosaurs. It won't be a fast death, I think we'll still see Flash as the platform behind a lot of interactive media websites for awhile yet, but it's going to start seeing some stiff competition from HTML 5, Silverlight, etc. I'm not sure it'll ever go away entirely; but it probably won't be the titan it was over the last ~decade.
To be even more fair, it's going the way of the dinosaurs
. It won't be a fast death, I think we'll still see Flash as the platform behind a lot of interactive media websites for awhile yet, but it's going to start seeing some stiff competition from HTML 5, Silverlight, etc. I'm not sure it'll ever go away entirely; but it probably won't be the titan it was over the last ~decade.