Comments on: Does Flash Encoding Slow Down the Computer?

By: FlashKiller

FlashKiller — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:52:17 +0000

Wow, this page is a great example of flash slowing down the system. I came here in search of answers as to why flash makes the browsers slow to a crawl and noticed that this page did the same thing. I uninstalled the flash plugin and poof! this page doesnt slow me down (although it tells me I need a plugin to view content) Not even streaming video! And i’m on a PC… ugh. Flash.

By: Lily Kwan

Lily Kwan — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:44:02 +0000

Adobe Flash for Beta sounds very interesting. I’ll make sure to check it out. Thanks for the tip!

By: Liberator

Liberator — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:40:51 +0000

i personally dont do video casting and encoding and all that stuff but my friends do and when i am over, there cpu’s and fans are blaring

By: Nivek

Nivek — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:30:53 +0000

Good question. Looks like something that would need a professional bench test to tell exactly how much it affects it, but I think that it is obvious that it makes your computer slower (as compared to faster).

By: Bailey24

Bailey24 — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:55:21 +0000

my cpu load on my mac is always high, i don’t know why but i can always hear my fans and they are loud.

By: Finlay Craig

Finlay Craig — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:35:24 +0000

Flash is pretty nifty thing, and seeing as it is running within a web browser as well I think its doing a pretty good job. This is really what multi core processing is all about though. Giving people the ability to do many demanding tasks at the same time. My sometimes live streams our practices or song writing sessions so that we can get real time feedback from people. We use other applications at the same time such as Apple’s Logic as it allows us to play different instruments of the band without those members being there. And that wouldn’t be possible without multicore processing! So if you want to use flash for important tasks, and you computer is struggling I would suggest closing down everything you don’t need at the time.

By: Jamie Jahnke

Jamie Jahnke — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:31:12 +0000

Attempting real-time encoding will always push just about any system.

By: Sugaslim

Sugaslim — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:05:02 +0000

I never have done a live stream, but I certainly think they should put this in schools everywhere. It would just make sense, people can ask questions about things and they can have them answered immediately. Also, it is strange that Flash Encoding wouldn’t get some type of upgraded software for Macs, those things have video in mind.

By: JOHNATHON89

JOHNATHON89 — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:59:32 +0000

yea it does very true

By: SlipFlurry

SlipFlurry — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:34:34 +0000

I tried live streaming a couple of times, but I have to stop for this exact reason. My computer became really noisy and hot and unpleasant to be around.

By: r3novatyo

r3novatyo — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:47:01 +0000

I never did streaming.I do not intend to but if Flash encoding slows down the computer than I think you need a very powerfull machine to do this,or a better optimized software

By: Bread

Bread — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:37:49 +0000

Good thing I don’t plan on live streaming if I ever get a Mac it sounds difficult.

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:51:13 +0000

I’ve definitely thought about live streaming before, but I really don’t have a spare machine to do it. The only extra computer I have is an old IBM ThinkPad with 184 MB of RAM and a 600 MHz P3. So yeah, Flash Encoding would probably slow down that computer. If I ever run into a Mac Mini, or, I don’t know, an HP Dragon….. I might give it a shot. But I’m not about to waste resources on my main rig for live streaming.

By: aeiz

aeiz — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:40:39 +0000

The new upcoming version of Flash (10) is said to fix some of the problems OSX users are experiencing with CPU usage.

By: minibam199

minibam199 — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:29:29 +0000

my flash player wired. it work then it just stops. i dont know why. it will be fine for a wile then i go away for 10 min. come back and it stops. to get it to work i half to reboot my comp.