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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gnash(1) gnash(1)
NAME
gnash, gtk-gnash, qt4-gnash, dump-gnash, fb-gnash, sdl-gnash, gnash-gtk-launcher, gnash-qt-launcher - GNU Flash (SWF) Player
Synopsis
gnash [option]... [URL]
DESCRIPTION
Run the SWF movie player.
-h, --help
Print usage info.
-V, --version
Print the version number, and the configuration, of the Gnash player. Please provide this information when submitting bug reports.
-s factor, --scale factor
Scale the movie up/down by the specified factor.
-c Produce a core file instead of letting SDL trap it
-d num, --delay num
Number of milliseconds to delay in main loop.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose; i.e. print log messages to stdout.
-a Be very verbose about movie action execution. Must be used in conjunction with -v.
-p Be very verbose about parsing. Must be used in conjunction with -v.
-A file
Audio dump file (wave format).
--hwaccel none|vaapi
Hardware Video Accelerator to use none|vaapi (default: none)
-x xid, --xid xid
The XID of the parent window Gnash should use instead of creating a new one. This is only used when embedding the player into
another window.
-w, --writelog
Write the gnash-dbg.log debug log to disk. By default the plugin writes its log in your home directory when using a launcher from
GNOME or KDE.
-j width, --width width
Set the width of the window. This is only used when embedding the player into another window.
-k height, --height height
Set the height of the window. This is only used when embedding the player into another window.
-X x-pos, --x-pos x-pos
Set window x position.
-Y y-pos, --y-pos y-pos
Set window y position.
-1, --once
Play once; exit when/if movie reaches the last frame.
-g Start Gnash with a Flash debugger console so one can set breakpoints or watchpoints.
-r [0|1|2|3]
0 disables rendering and sound (good for batch tests).
1 enables rendering, disable sound.
2 disables rendering, enable sound.
3 enables rendering and sound (default setting).
-M ffmpeg|gst, --media ffmpeg|gst
The media handler to use (default: ffmpeg).
-R agg|cairo|opengl, --renderer agg|cairo|opengl
The renderer to use (default: agg).
-t sec, --timeout sec
Timeout and exit after the specified number of seconds.
-u url, --real-url url
Set "real" url of the movie (useful for downloaded movies).
-U url, --base-url url
Set "base" url for this run (used to resolve relative urls, defaults to movie url)
-P param, --param param
Set parameter (ie. "FlashVars=A=1&b=2")
-F x:y, --fd x:y
Set file descriptors to use for external communications. x is use by the player to send commands to the plugin, y is used by the
plugin to send commands to the standalone player.
--max-advances num
Exit after specified number of frame advances.
--fullscreen
Start in fullscreen mode.
--hide-menubar
Start without displaying the menu bar.
--screenshot list
Set a list of frame advances to be saved as screenshots. The list must be comma-separated. Valid values are integers and the phrase
"last". If "last" is specified, the final frame before exit is saved. Invalid values are ignored. Frame numbers apply to the
sequence of frames as the SWF is executed, not the frame sequence defined in the SWF. Use in combination with --screenshot-file to
specify output filename.
--screenshot-file file
Specify the output pattern for screenshot filenames. The token %f in a pattern will be replaced with a frame identifier. If you
specify multiple frames and do not use %f, the file will be overwritten for each screenshot. If this option is not specified but
screenshots are requested, a default filename will be used.
KEYS
CTRL-Q Quit/Exit.
CTRL-W Quit/Exit.
CTRL-P Toggle pause.
CTRL-R Restart the movie.
CTRL-L Force immediate redraw.
CTRL-F Toggle fullscreen. ESC also exits fullscreen.
CTRL-O Save a spontaneous screenshot. If no screenshots were requested from the command line, a default filename is used. Otherwise, the
same filename pattern is used for requested and spontaneous screenshots.
Flash is a registered trademark of Adobe Corporation.
24 January 2014 gnash(1)