Amiga Coldfire project dead?

[Daedalus]

Well it's no secret that windoze flash is better accelerated.

That's it, and newer versions of Flash have ended up even slower on PPC Macs. And the sad thing is, the actual video itself would be perfectly playable most of the time on either PPC Mac or 500MHz PC if it weren't for the Flash overheads.

[Daedalus]

@Iggy

Well, the reason I suspect Flash is that I can play and edit full PAL video at 720x576 on my G4 Mac in a variety of formats without it breaking a sweat, yet it struggles to play a 360p Youtube clip. The same clip in any other format would surely play easily as well as e.g. ripped DVDs, Divx etc.

Bottom line is that the G4@1.33GHz has plenty of horsepower to decode video in any format other than Flash, so I have to conclude that Flash is the issue. It's well known that for a long time Flash was hobbled on the Apple because of restrictions imposed by Apple themselves regarding acceleration, and only the extra power of the G5 and Core 2 chips made it usable.