Adobe flash - high CPU, F11, radeon

[drago01]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:26 PM, planetf1 <bugs at cherrybyte.me.uk> wrote:
> I've raised a number of video bugs, but after some advice on this one....
>
> When playing flash videos on a Thinkpad T60p core duo @ 2.16 Ghz, ATI V5200
> (R500 series), compiz enabled I'm seeing v. high CPU consumption from:
>  firefox:~65%
>  Xorg: ~25%
>
> This is with BBC iplayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer -- UK only) running
> 1/4 screen (full is 1600x1200).
>
> This is stuttery, but trying to play full screen just results in a
> performance disaster.
>
> this is with CPU power mode at "performance" - so full 2.16Ghz
>
> Levels are:
>
> flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-1.i386
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.0-2.fc11.i586
> mesa-libGL-7.5-0.5.fc11.i586
> kernel-PAE-2.6.29-16.fc11.i686
>
> As a comparison, a 720x480 wmv 24bpp 254 kbps played with mplayer, "xv"
> consumes ~15%/10% (2nd figure is mplayer itself) cpu. With "x11" mode it was
> ~25%/12%
>
> Known issue? Should I raise a new bugzilla? Or is it more likely an adobe
> implementation issue?
>
> Note that for those in the UK "BBC iPlayer" really is a killer app. It's on
> WII, mobile, web and allows catchup of most of BBC's output for ~1 month PVR
> style either via streaming or download.
>
> Nigel.
>

Try:

mkdir -p /etc/adobe/
echo "OverrideGPUValidation=1" > /etc/adobe/mms.cfg