Minimum CPU for 720/1080p Flash?

[Hubb1e]

My S754 Athlon 3400+ (2.4ghz) and Radeon 9600pro (no h.264 decoding) can play 720p flash video fairly well. Some skips once in awhile but usable. I wouldn't use it as a HTPC but it's fine to waste time on. 1080p is not doable.

 

[el aye]

Now this is surprising. I would seriously expect those specs to work fine. You are talking about Nvidia 9300 right?

http://techreport.com/review/15690/nvidia-geforce-9300-chipset

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-nforce-730i,2044.html

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Chipse...set-Review-IGP-Intel/Video-Decode-Performance

That IGP supposedly can play crysis. Do you have dual channel memory enabled and functioning properly? Can you overclock the gpu?

When I just reinstalled windows 8, the nvidia drivers page said the card doesn't support hardware accelerated flash... is this a windows 8 limitation?

I don't know if it is just something weird with my settings, but the majority of the time I make the video full screen it can't playback well. My roommate watches the bachelorette (ugh) and it is choppy as hell and unwatchable in full screen, but fine otherwise. I just tested a 720p/1080p music video on youtube and it was alright, but not completely smooth playback.

 

[ShintaiDK]

When I just reinstalled windows 8, the nvidia drivers page said the card doesn't support hardware accelerated flash... is this a windows 8 limitation?

I don't know if it is just something weird with my settings, but the majority of the time I make the video full screen it can't playback well. My roommate watches the bachelorette (ugh) and it is choppy as hell and unwatchable in full screen, but fine otherwise. I just tested a 720p/1080p music video on youtube and it was alright, but not completely smooth playback.

http://www.adobe.com/products/about-flash.html

Its not helping that Microsoft want to control flash updates on Windows 8. So Widnows 8 users are left with a highly exploitable 11.3 version.

 

[tweakboy]

HTML5 will eventually kill flash and it will die cytg111 .

 

[elundmark]

This might help, I have an Acer 5735z with integrated GMA 4500M graphics, Intel "Dual Core" (pre Core 2) @ 2GHz. I've had a lot of laptops, and this is the first one that fully handles 720p and 1080p (mostly) Flash video (on Youtube). I've only ever used Ubuntu, and both the PepperFlash 11.5+ for Chrome, and 11.2r2 with Firefox works alright. The processor gets really hot @ 1080p but it works. Although I've had some choppy video sometimes, depends on the kind of vdeio. 720p has always woked. Not sure if the GMA 4500M graphics has h264 decoding built in (I think so), nevertheless it's about the minimum required system to have, imo.

 

[holden j caufield]

what are some links with 1080p flash? I rarely if ever see any 1080p flash.

 

[mechBgon]

http://www.adobe.com/products/about-flash.html

Its not helping that Microsoft want to control flash updates on Windows 8. So Widnows 8 users are left with a highly exploitable 11.3 version.

The numbering scheme is different for the Win8 IE version. It's as securely patched as Adobe's latest "everyone-else" versions, despite the difference in numbering.

 

[SPBHM]

what are some links with 1080p flash? I rarely if ever see any 1080p flash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGBVzeBUbk


anyway, my old X2 seems to run fine 1080p when the downloading has ended, there is a huge CPU usage drop at the moment the download of the youtube video stops when playing it (at the limit of my connection 15Mb/s with some bad wireless card)

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Not sure if the GMA 4500M graphics has h264 decoding built in (I think so), nevertheless it's about the minimum required system to have, imo.

That really depends on which one of the GMA 4500 family we're talking about...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units#Fourth_generation

 

[holden j caufield]

I think any dual core should handle this easily. I have my t9300 core 2 duo, 8gb ram, quadro fx 570m 256mb, 256gb m4. This is a 5 year old laptop, I'm running 3 virtual machines and the video linked above only used 15-25% of cpu usage on the host os. Played it on my virtual machine with 2gb of ram and it took 40 -55 % of cpu but played great.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

I think any dual core should handle this easily. I have my t9300 core 2 duo, 8gb ram, quadro fx 570m 256mb, 256gb m4. This is a 5 year old laptop, I'm running 3 virtual machines and the video linked above only used 15-25% of cpu usage on the host os. Played it on my virtual machine with 2gb of ram and it took 40 -55 % of cpu but played great.

My Celeron G465 hovers ~5-10% use when viewing 1080p. So I would guess you're right, any dual core should run 1080p flash, especially with HW-acceleration.