Flash Video Low Framerate on Fullscreen in Firefox

[US41]

When attempting to view any flash video fullscreen in firefox, framrates drop to 2 per second and the video output is choppy and unwatchable.

Take these steps:

1. Install Adobe flash plugin v9 b124
2. Install Firefox 3.0.3
3. Nvidia driver 177
3. Activate Compiz Fusion

Go to any web site with flash video (ex. Hulu.com) and click on fullscreen on the video
the video will become fullscreen, but will be choppy and unwatchable.

This is an issue that I first experienced with 7.10 of Ubuntu. 7.04 did not have this problem. 8.04 had this problem, and now 8.10 has the problem still.

This is a widely reported issue that has never been addressed.

[Dhinakar (dhinakar-1989)]

Even windows XP have this problem

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

why arent you using the flash 10 beta that is the standard for intrepid?

[US41 (redmond-rob)]

I upgraded from 8.04. It didn't install flash beta 10.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:54 PM, danielhollocher
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> why arent you using the flash 10 beta that is the standard for intrepid?
>
> --
> Flash Video Low Framerate on Fullscreen in Firefox
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282226
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[US41 (redmond-rob)]

No it doesn't. I use Ubuntu exclusively at home and XP exclusively at
work. Flash works in full screen beautifully on XP. Don't be
ridiculous.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Dhinakar <email address hidden> wrote:
> Even windows XP have this problem
>
> --
> Flash Video Low Framerate on Fullscreen in Firefox
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282226
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

what version of the flashplugin-nonfree do you have?
apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree

[US41 (redmond-rob)]

apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree
flashplugin-nonfree:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10.0.12.10ubuntu1
  Version table:
     10.0.12.10ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:41 PM, danielhollocher
<email address hidden> wrote:
> what version of the flashplugin-nonfree do you have?
> apt-cache policy flashplugin-nonfree
>
> --
> Flash Video Low Framerate on Fullscreen in Firefox
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282226
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Jesper de Jong (jespdj)]

I have the same problem with Flash 9. I think this is a problem in Flash. I installed Flash 10 (which was released very recently) and I noticed that full screen video is much better with Flash 10 - no choppy video anymore.

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

looks fixed