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by darkestkhan 5060 days ago
My system isn't shader capable and still playing HTML5 video tag consumes only ~30% of CPU while playing flash ~90%.

There is no excuse for that - I could understand higher CPU usage, but not by factor of 3.
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novalis 5060 days ago
Are you on Linux ? That is the only plat that I see taking higher cpu usage while playing viedo in flash. Both windows and osx now play flash with little cpu usage.
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darkestkhan 5047 days ago
Yes, I'm on Linux - but it still doesn't explain why flash is consuming so much CPU (I'm using VESA drivers for graphics)
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