Flash benchmarking tool/website?

MikeHunt79 · 31 May 2011 at 02:38

I watch quite a few flash videos now and my Macbook is struggling especially with 720p stuff... Probably because it's almost 5 years old now.

Anyway, I've tried bootcamp and win7 recently, and flash seems to be a little smoother under Win7 compared to OSX but I don't know for sure.

Is there a website that benchmarks flash performance so I can tell for sure which is the best platform to run flash content?

Thanks.

Dewotter · 31 May 2011 at 03:19

Pretty sure Flash lacks hardware acceleration on anything other than Windows - or if it does it isn't as good, making it the best platform for that content.

MikeHunt79 · 31 May 2011 at 18:03

Ok, thanks, it's a shame flash is lacking hardware acceleration under Osx, I'll stick to win7 fOr now then

fez · 31 May 2011 at 20:13

If its youtube then most of their videos are now available to view using html5 rather than flash.

MikeHunt79 · 31 May 2011 at 22:52

fez said:
If its youtube then most of their videos are now available to view using html5 rather than flash.

Thanks, is there a way to force HTML5 when on youtube? It would be nice if I could get 720p stuff smoother under OSX...

I mainly watch Justin.tv and Blip.tv, so with any luck these services also offer HTML5 streams in addition to their Flash ones...

MikeHunt79 · 31 May 2011 at 23:28

Ok, it seems that GuiMark and Hulu Video will be worth trying:

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2008/10/benchmarking-flash-player-10.ars

Are there any others out there that benchmark video playback performance in particular?

This seems to confirm that HTML5 is the way forward here...

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/03/html5-vs-flash-the-video-benchmark-deathmatch/

fez · 31 May 2011 at 23:50

Have a quick google about youtube html5 beta. It will explain how to set your preference for youtube to html5 rather than flash.