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jmar83_the2nd
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flash movies freeze

Post by jmar83_the2nd »

hi,

with current version of virtualbox the flash movies freeze.

no difference with different flash/browser versions, firefox, ie etc. same problem.

hardware acceleration on windows / flash enabled or not makes no difference too...


regards, jan
regards, jan
Rootman
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Re: flash movies freeze

Post by Rootman »

How much video ram are you allocating for your guests? I usually give it all 128 mb, not sure if this will help. I DO have to turn off Flash HW acceleration or Flash crashes on ALL my guests on 3 different hosts too.
jmar83_the2nd
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Re: flash movies freeze

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"I DO have to turn off Flash HW acceleration or Flash crashes on ALL my guests on 3 different hosts too."

i had this problem on my previous laptop with nvidia graphics - not freezing, crashing..


now it's only a freezing problem...
regards, jan
Rootman
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Re: flash movies freeze

Post by Rootman »

jmar83_the2nd wrote:"I DO have to turn off Flash HW acceleration or Flash crashes on ALL my guests on 3 different hosts too."

i had this problem on my previous laptop with nvidia graphics - not freezing, crashing.. now it's only a freezing problem...
ATI Mobility and Nvidia both here, I pretty much turn it off on every host upon first use of a browser after adding flash. Seems to be a ocmmon issue.
jmar83_the2nd
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Re: flash movies freeze

Post by jmar83_the2nd »

NOW I'VE FOUND THE PROBLEM: the svn client "tortoise svn" in version 1.6...

i tried to restart my computer, then i got a message something like "Can't quit process: tsvncache.exe"

after that, it was completetly impossible to restart ot shutdown the virtualized system. (so i've closed it in the menu: machine -> close)

then i unistalled tortoise 1.6.x and done a restart. after that, in installed tortoise 1.7.x, and done a restart again. there was no problems anymore with flash after the next start...

IF FLASH MOVES CRASH: yes, it's a graphics problem
IF FLASH MOVIES STOP (MAYBE WITH BUFFERING) BUT THEY ARE DOWNLODED WITH 100%: may be a graphics problem, bust i think in most cases (80%) it's not... in my case it was a problem with another running process "tsvncache.exe".


"Seems to be a ocmmon issue."

yes, virtualized operating system do generally run better (not faster but more stable) without graphics hw acceleration...
regards, jan
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