Terrible Flash Video performance in SL
That being said, I have had terrible Flash video performance since i upgraded to SL shortly after it came out. Much worse that using it in Leopard. I have 15" Macbook Pro (2,2) and had decent performance under Leopard. Now when i play flash video from the internet (from multiple browsers, from dedicated apps like Hulu Desktop) the video plays ok for a few minutes then just starts to choke the **** out, then returns at a ridiculously low frame rate, like 2fps. The processor gets hogged usually by a WebKit process, but sometimes it's just Safari or even a QT process.
I've also noticed decreased performance in some other pro video apps like FCP. I used to be able to capture HDV fine through Firewire, now it chokes so bad it's rendered my camera useless as a capture machine. But this is less noticeable than with Flash on the internet.
Anybody know what could be causing this? the rest of my system is healthy, by all TechTool/Disk Utility/ Disk Warrior standards, except my battery isn't healthy and needs replacing. However my lappie is plugged in 95% of the time.
any suggestions welcome.
thanks
MacBook Pr0 2.33 intel, Mac OS X (10.6.4)