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by Willie_Dynamite 5945 days ago
I just wonder why the exact flv that makes the flashplayer in Firefox go bananas with CPU use can be played by mplayer without breaking a sweat.
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Which, for those who haven't read it, is an Adobe employee saying that Flash is inherently slow for displaying video, and they have no intention of changing this.

Currently all the HTML5 video implementations suffer from the same issue, but I've never heard them state that they have no intention of addressing it.