XO: fixing browser flash performance
Posted in olpc with tags xo flash browser on January 15, 2008 by ejeschkeYou may have noticed that flash applets do not work very well in the XO as shipped.
There is a fix. I found part of it here and the other part here.
# Install adobe flash player instead of gnash player
$ su -
$ rpm -ivh http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm
# Force flash movies to default to lower quality, which improves frame rate
$ cd /usr/lib/flash-plugin
$ cp libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so.bak && sed -i ’s/HIGH/LOW/g’ libflashplayer.so && sed -i ’s/LOW/HIGH/’ libflashplayer.so
# Remove annoying “click to view” link behavior for flash sites
$ cd /usr/share/activities/Web.activity
$ mkdir bak && mv agent-stylesheet.css clickToView.xml bak
After taking these steps, YouTube videos play a lot smoother, as well as various flash games my kids like…
Enjoy!
