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IMHO, rather than being reactive and take action when CG members complain. I believe that CG is fully capable of testing the ads proactively on a small range of PCs before releasing it to the public. Simiarly, the ads people should also be capable of doing it before it causes too much grievances. :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by WizBang
that's great!...thanks for the quick response from CG's Admins...Quote:
Originally Posted by WizBang
I think, Kheun gave a good point there...
so Deniz...you can come back home safely now;)...
I am not sure if Flash 8 is all to blame - for, I dont get the CPU usage issue with any other website using flash for advertisements other than CG.
The advertisments that I've seen devour my CPU probably do so because of the effects they use (like Fog effects and Steam effects) - the CPU hogging of the ad. goes away once those effects are over.
However, it could be true that these effects are newly supported by Flash 8? Or that with F8, these are specially rendered, and / or slowly done.
Ads are always checked and tested. But again, CG doesn't create nor control many of the ads. Those who do are expected to test, and yes there are people who check before accepting an ad. I don't have all the details on how that is done, but I am guessing the reviewers have been mainly concerned with approving the content more than the CPU usage. After all, this sort of thing just isn't a problem with animated gif images, and I for one haven't seen it much with Flash either until more recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kheun
yup! I use Flash 8 too...no problem for me so far...Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
i think the advertiser used the new Flash Video codec that is called VP6 over the old codec(Sorensen Park) for their FLV...which is resource hog if not taken caution steps conciderably...but it's only compatible with Flash 8... :rolleyes:...so maybe they not use that...Quote:
The advertisments that I've seen devour my CPU probably do so because of the effects they use (like Fog effects and Steam effects) - the CPU hogging of the ad. goes away once those effects are over.
However, it could be true that these effects are newly supported by Flash 8? Or that with F8, these are specially rendered, and / or slowly done.
or they use the new feature in Flash 8 called Alpha channel...which is also a reasource hog...just my opinion:D...hmmm....
I guess it's also worth pointing out that I wasn't getting a certain IBM ad that others where seeing until the problem with it was addressed. I was being served a static image version of the ad. To me this means that the ad was Flash 8 compatable only. So I'm guessing the ad had some additional requirement which Flash 7 couldn't accomplish.
There are other ads which also have a lot of frames in the sequence, yet they play smoothly without bogging down the browser. The techniques used to create it are apparently involved in how well it plays.
Actually, I too haven't seen the IBM ads you guys are talking about. Maybe because of the version of my flash or maybe I'm just not paying enough attention to them :p :D
I have seen the IBM ads just now....it eats up 50% of CPU usage on my PC...I can't imagine if it's on slower PC...
apparently, they used too much blur and glow filters (new features in Flash 8) to make the fogs effect....sadly, this filter is not meant for slow PC as it's limited by memory bandwith...MAcromedia stills working to improve this features...