Flash slow on Mac!?
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- UD_isEverywhere0
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fusionpixel
(Dec 7 05, 09:21)I could die! I know that when it comes to timing sound and video in flash it is risky but when you have done the whole site already!! :~(
- ********0
thanks
- ********0
It's the heavy graphics, in my experience, that really slow sites down on a mac. Not so much of a difference when it's vector based.
And jaz mate, I have no idea what point you're making.
- ********0
haha I think we were agreeing with each other but it came out wrong. lol :)
- UD_isEverywhere0
good on both mac / safari and pc / ie
- ********0
thanks
- ********0
I could die! I know that when it comes to timing sound and video in flash it is risky but when you have done the whole site already!! :~(
UD_isEverywhere
(Dec 7 05, 09:27)post it and let us test it
- CyBrainX0
The rittenhouse site looked fine on my G5 running Safari.
The original question was about the same site running worse on Mac than PC, so the issue is not graphics and development. It's merely a comparison. The answer lies with the Flash player. Nothing else. Macromedia has gotten close with recent versions and Apple also improved performance with the G5s.
- madirish0
i am w/ Cy- this has everything to do witht the player code and how that works on the OS X platform.
i could be way off here, but i *believe* the original player that Splash (company who built the technology that Macro. bought years ago and switched to Flash) built to play their files w/in a web browser was based on an active-x control. this has been modded over the years to be much better and not this, but all underlying sode stems from this architecture, hence one of the reasons .swf's play worse on Mac.
I only say this (and again, could be way off) because i remember speaking w/ one of the original members of the Splash team at our offices once in Colorado, and he said he was shocked 'this' was still being done. it was after a question about what he thought optimum frame rates should be for best cross-platform performance.... and under Flash 5 at the time.
- ********0
flash only works well on computers that employ multiple button mice
- thejudders0
That must not be the answer uberdesigner, as the Mac now has a multibutton mouse... strange that
- pablito0
get the latest version of Firefox, 1.5
flash runs a bit faster now.
- ********0
my penis is slow on my body is there anything I can do?
- CyBrainX0
Change your frame rate and optimize your sex for female, not male.
- cereals0
hahaha
- spot130
I think the problem with slow flash sites on the mac has to do with Frame rates. Flash sites that use 60+fps don't run well on my G5 in any browser but the best browser I have for running Flash on a mac is Camino.
Mozilla should scrap Firefox for the mac and just call Camino Firefox.
- ********0
lolz CyBrainX
- mtgentry0
I think you guys are all wrong. Flash speed on a mac is dependant on processor speed. It plays using the processor.
Slower macs will have a harder time rendering large flash files. On Pc, flash plays using ram.
- tenpointtwo0
I've done lots of testing on Mac and PC, I have both.
The only times I've come into problems with stuff running slower on Mac then it does on PC came from absolutely nothing EXCEPT for actionscript. Obviously this is just my personal experience, but the problem seems to lie with different people's different coding methods (especially when it comes to loading external files)