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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Small linux distro for displaying advertisements/banners Post 302591690 by mirni on Friday 20th of January 2012 10:49:56 AM
Old 01-20-2012
The choice of distro depends on your hardware. If you only have 256MB RAM and a slow processor, then you need something very lightweight. But since you are already running ubuntu pretty smoothly, i don't see a reason to switch.
As for your performance issues:
Check out this site SCALE 8x: Gnash, the free Flash player [LWN.net] Among other things it says:
Quote:
Gnash uses either Gstreamer or FFmpeg for media handling. He noted that most distributions use Gstreamer to avoid the codec issues, but that FFmpeg is much faster...
Which are you using?
Are you running gnash standalone or as a browser plugin? If a plugin, which browser?

But there are limits to how fast the flash can be played, flash usually cannot utilize hardware acceleration. Do you need to run your ads in flash format? How about converting it into an mpeg (using e.g. ffmpeg) and running that with mplayer?

 

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arora

ARORA(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ARORA(1)

NAME

       Arora - Lightweight web browser based on Qt and WebKit

SYNOPSIS

       arora [Qt options] [url]

DESCRIPTION

       Arora  is  a  lightweight,  cross-platform  web	browser using the Qt 4.4 port of the WebKit layout engine. It is based on the demo browser
       application shipped with Qt demos.

OPTIONS

   Common Qt Options
       -style style, -style=style
	      Specify the Qt widget style to use (examples: plastique, cleanlooks).

       -stylesheet stylesheet, -stylesheet=stylesheet
	      Specify the user stylesheet to use when rendering widgets.

       -session session, -session=session
	      Restore the application from an earlier session.

       -widgetcount
	      Print a debug message at the end about the number of widgets left undestroyed and the maximum number of widgets that existed at  the
	      same time.

       -reverse
	      Sets the application's layout direction to right-to-left.

   Options Specific to Arora
       url    The URL address to open in the browser.

BUGS

       Please report bugs to http://code.google.com/p/arora/issues/list.

AUTHOR

       The author of Arora is Benjamin C. Meyer <ben@meyerhome.net>.

       This manual page was written by Matvey Kozhev <sikon@ubuntu.com>.

       Permission  is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any
       later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

								     May 2008								  ARORA(1)
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