Slows down flash video on Pentium 4 2.4GHz / Ubuntu 12.04 / Ati Radeon 9000?

Question

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I installed Ubuntu on my old computer. The system itself works quite briskly, but full-screen (1680x1050) video slows down - both flash (to a greater extent) and HTML5 (to a lesser extent). Google Earth is also buggy, does not display textures - at startup it says that there is no support for 3D acceleration. Drivers are open-source, proprietary ones are not installed (probably because the latest version is from 2006). Really it is necessary to put Windows back? Or does it make sense to get an nVidia card somewhere? I wish it could be done in software...

Answer 1

That's right, Ati donates old firewood to opensource, so there are no more proprietary ones for this card - they are in opensource. But there is no hardware acceleration of flash in them, so only a percentage - and such a resolution will not take out a percentage, flash does not adequately require a lot of resources for video. In Windows it is better with it at it. Nvidia needs a fresh one and there seems to be glitches with color rendering (they definitely were, they didn’t know if they cured it - because right now I already have enough prots for this and I haven’t experimented)

Answer 2

If the system wants to play in a regular player in full screen mode, then you can try using something like https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/video-without-flash/ or https://addons.mozilla.org /ru/firefox/addon/vlcwatcha/ In general, dig in the direction of playing the file not in the browser, transfer it to a regular player

Answer 3

Compiz works? Glxgears what they say?