Re: [Gnash] Gnash CVS build - strange issues on ppc

[Markus Gothe]

Thanks for reporting this... My first thought is wrong endianess. x86 is
little endian and ppc big endian. It'd be nice if you could raincheck
your endianess and report.

//Markus

Wojciech Owczarek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I build Gnash from CVS every few days to check how it handles all the
> flash things. I build it for myself on two platforms: x86_64 and ppc. On
> x86 Gnash behaves OK (this is a Pentium D 2.8 GHz machine, I don't even
> see the load rising when I watch websites with Gnash plugin). On my
> PowerBook though, I get some nasty artifacts on the screen (like parts
> of the flash parts of some website blinking or being moved some pixels
> away from their original location, or even directly on top or bottom of
> the screen, out of the browser window - only xrefresh helps there, I
> found out that happens when I scroll the window's content up/down).
> Also, sometimes some elements (not sure if they're bitmap, vector or
> text) get strangely scattered. Here is a screenshot of how this looks
> like: 
> 
> http://owczi.net/stuff/gnashppc.png 
> 
> I also I saw the same problem with Gnash on the ppc machine a few
> months ago, but I considered it worth mentioning now after I found out
> that it doesn't affect the x86 box. Could this be a matter of endianness
> somewhere? (it looked a bit different when launching Macromedia's
> binary viever via qemu though) My ppc laptop has a G3 400 MHz cpu, and I
> must admit that when Firefox (worse) or Opera (a little better) loads a
> page with many flash elements handled by Gnash, load rises so deadly
> that the system gets hardly usable. Sad, when compared to the same page
> being viewed in Firefox on Windows NT 4.0 on a 166 MHz Pentium MMX. I'd
> be glad to do some more Gnash testing on ppc/Linux if you give me some
> hints on what to look for. Gnash is a big hope for all of us "exotic
> platform" users out there.
> 
> And two questions:
>  
> - how high in the TODO queue is handling keyboard
> input in a Gnash window? 
> - what about antialiassing? Will Cairo eventually be the default
> rendering engine? 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> owczi
>

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