Re: [Gnash-dev] Many of time spend on agg when render and rasterize

[Udo Giacomozzi]

Hello ligy8160,

Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 9:12:05 AM, you wrote:
l1c> From the results checked on PC, almost 80% of the time when play
l1c> movies are spent in rasterizering and rendering.

Sure. That is the hardest part (in terms of CPU usage) when rendering vector 
graphics. You have to understand that Flash is a *vector* animation format and 
is completely different from MPEG and similar video formats. A Flash player has 
to *render* the scene in real time which much depends on *what* you see in the 
movie. 

So it's not a matter of RGB or YUV (except if you are playing a FLV video), 
it's simply that your CPU hasn't enough horsepower to render your Flash movie 
in real time. If we could make the AGG renderer faster, we would! But at the 
moment we see no possibility to do that. 

Your only possibility is to play simpler movies, some of them will play fine on 
your CPU, but don't expect miracles.

Please teach yourself about vector graphics basics and the way Flash movies 
work before continuing the discussion. Obviously you don't know what a Flash 
player really has to do. Wikipedia, Google and the rest of Internet are your 
friends.

It doesn't make sense to discuss about optimizations unless you really know 
what's going on. Even with a 100% fixed point implementation of Gnash it won't 
turn your CPU into a rocket.

Udo