[mythtv-users] VDPAU on flash

[Kevin Ross]

On 11/27/2011 12:59 PM, Josu Lazkano wrote:
> Thanks Jedi, I am trying with Firefox and Chromium and I can not get 
> hardware acceleration, this is the "about:plugins" page on both 
> browsers: Shockwave Flash (3 files) Shockwave Flash 11.0 r1 I try both 
> flash and HTML5 versions on YouTube, but when I play a 1080p video, I 
> get 80.85% CPU usage. There are xorg and chromium binary files with 
> high CPU. Need I some extra configuration to get it working? Thanks 
> and best regards. 

Not all video files on Youtube will support VDPAU.  The video must be 
encoded with h.264 (as opposed to VP6 or Sorensen Spark).  This video, 
for example, works for me with the settings you posted previously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw

However, at least on my system, Flash is too buggy to be usable with 
VDPAU enabled, so I leave it disabled, and watch the lower resolution 
versions of the videos.  YMMV.

Hope this helps!
-- Kevin