When will Macromedia finally add some HW acceleration to its Flash player?!?

F-3582 · June 6th, 2005

The topic says it. I mean, Flash animations get more and more complex and at the same time they get slower and slower. Why does that Flash player still use Software drawing?

I've seen a player (Swiff player) which has an option to play a Flash through hardware, but it is still very buggy (and it only works properly with NVidia cards).

Do you maybe know another player which does this?

Noxious Ninja · June 7th, 2005

None yet, but if GPLFlash ever takes off, I can see GPLFlash + Cairo + Glitz being a distinct possibility.

I looked at Swiff Player, and it sounds like just hardware-accelerated blitting, not actual accelerate rendering.

F-3582 · June 7th, 2005

Well, it produces enough glitches to look like HW rendering. And all the flash animations I've watched with it, yet, are rendered really fluently, even those with massive amounts of sprites.

Only downside: They get out of sync and they also behave differently. You cannot control them anymore speaking of menus and some small animation bits loop endlessly.

Noxious Ninja · June 8th, 2005

I just realized that hardware acceleration isn't enabled by default. :P Unfortunately, on all the things I tried, it's too glitchy for me to say whether or not it's any faster.

F-3582 · June 8th, 2005

Try some www.newgrounds.com flashes ("There She Is! 2 - The Cake Dance" worked pretty well). You WILL see a difference.

scottlc · June 9th, 2005

Macromedia Shockwave already does have hardware accelerated graphics.

Noxious Ninja · June 9th, 2005

Accelerated as in "we use an overlay" sort of thing, or as in "we use OpenGL/Direct3D primitives for our line drawing" sort of thing?

June 6th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,242	When will Macromedia finally add some HW acceleration to its Flash player?!? The topic says it. I mean, Flash animations get more and more complex and at the same time they get slower and slower. Why does that Flash player still use Software drawing? I've seen a player (Swiff player) which has an option to play a Flash through hardware, but it is still very buggy (and it only works properly with NVidia cards). Do you maybe know another player which does this? __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

June 7th, 2005	#2 (permalink)
Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	None yet, but if GPLFlash ever takes off, I can see GPLFlash + Cairo + Glitz being a distinct possibility. I looked at Swiff Player, and it sounds like just hardware-accelerated blitting, not actual accelerate rendering. __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0

June 7th, 2005	#3 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,242	Well, it produces enough glitches to look like HW rendering. And all the flash animations I've watched with it, yet, are rendered really fluently, even those with massive amounts of sprites. Only downside: They get out of sync and they also behave differently. You cannot control them anymore speaking of menus and some small animation bits loop endlessly. __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

June 8th, 2005	#4 (permalink)
Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	I just realized that hardware acceleration isn't enabled by default. :P Unfortunately, on all the things I tried, it's too glitchy for me to say whether or not it's any faster. __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0

June 8th, 2005	#5 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,242	Try some www.newgrounds.com flashes ("There She Is! 2 - The Cake Dance" worked pretty well). You WILL see a difference. __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

June 9th, 2005	#6 (permalink)
scottlc Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: St Andrews, Scotland Posts: 1,575	Macromedia Shockwave already does have hardware accelerated graphics. __________________ OS: Arch Linux w/ Kernel 2.6.23.8 + GNOME 2.20.1 - CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.5GHz - Memory: 1280MB DDR PC2700 - Browser: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10

June 9th, 2005	#7 (permalink)
Noxious Ninja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: teh intarweb Posts: 1,718	Accelerated as in "we use an overlay" sort of thing, or as in "we use OpenGL/Direct3D primitives for our line drawing" sort of thing? __________________ 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0

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