On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:27:47 -0600, Neeum Zawan wrote:

> On 11/25/09 16:02, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> AMD-64 2 GHz dual core processor - not really blazingly fast by today's
>> standards.  That's the desktop machine.  The Dell laptop is a single
>> core (I believe) Intel 32-bit processor that runs at about 2 GHz as
>> well. I've a slower laptop in the office (a Thinkpad t42p) that's
>> slower and still seems to handle it OK.
> 
> 	Try Hulu. Set whatever you're watching to the highest quality, 
and then
> switch to full screen. On my machine (P4 2.53 GHz), it plays, but it
> kind of jerks a few times a minute.

Have done, and yes, it's jerky at the highest resolution, but I've always 
had problems with it because of my bandwidth (only 3 Mbps down here at 
home).

> 	It should give trouble on your slower machines.
> 
> 	Of course, it's possible that the plugin _is_ working with your 3-
D
> cards (all of them?). It's not that they don't support video cards at
> all - just that it rarely works.

At issue really is a definition of "working".  I consider it working if I 
can watch video effectively.  You seem to consider it working only if it 
behaves in a particular manner, such as offloading the video rendering to 
the GPU.  That'd be nice, but doesn't fit my general definition of 
"working" which is "I can use it most of the time without a problem".  
Biggest problem I have with it is the damned thing has memory leaks 
galore.

Jim

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