KDE/Flash too fast weirdness

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 16 June 2010, JD wrote:
>On 06/16/2010 03:29 PM, Peter A wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> so this one has me completely stomped...  After upgrading to F13 (though
>> yum but I also tested with a clean F13 install, same behavior) every
>> flash video (e.g. youtube) plays significantly faster than it should...
>> A 45 second video plays in about 12 seconds without any sound at all.
>>
>> The weird thing is this happens only in KDE - in gnome there are no
>> issues at all.
>>
>> 1) On normal login into KDE this happens immediately.
>> 2) If I remove the temp files and caches (rm -rf
>> /var/tmp/kdecache-loony/ /var/cache/gdm/loony /tmp/*) then the problem
>> doesn't happen on the first login. However, after a logout and log back
>> in, the problem happens just as before.
>> 3) Once the problem has occurred once, then only a reboot clears it.
>> Removing the files mentioned in step 2 has no effect. Even switching to
>> gnome at this time doesn't slow the video down again.
>>
>> I tried removing my .kde and a whole lot more. Even creating a new
>> account and trying from that doesn't change anything.
>>
>> My HW config is a Dell Studio 17 (1747, with 1.73Ghz i7, 8GB) running a
>> fully patched 64bit Fedora. I tried Flash plugins 10.0, 10.1 in 32bit
>> and 10.0 pre- release 64bit without any differences. The graphics card
>> is a ATI M96 (Mobility Radeon HD 4650) and I have no xorg.conf and only
>> the standard keyboard settings in xorg.conf.d...
>>
>> Someone please tell me I'm not going crazy :)
>>
>> Peter.
>
>Had a similar problem very early on - I fixed it by re-installing the
> latest flash plugin from adobe.
>I still do  not like the flash format because the flash plugin ends up
>chewing 60 to 90 % of my cpu.
>
Yeah, it works here, but its eating 40-60% of all 4 cores of a 2.1Ghz 
phenom.  Folks with lessor machines need not apply.

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