optimized flash player?

[ultimate99]

I have to watch lectures online and unfortunately I have to installed Adobe Flash Player. When I watch these lectures, my fans kick in and the cpu spikes most of the time. Also, the videos buffer a lot (probably bandwidth issue on their end?). Is there any way to optimize this? I use win7 pro with opera and firefox.

[Mando]

2 minutes ago, ultimate99 said:

I have to watch lectures online and unfortunately I have to installed Adobe Flash Player. When I watch these lectures, my fans kick in and the cpu spikes most of the time. Also, the videos buffer a lot (probably bandwidth issue on their end?). Is there any way to optimize this? I use win7 pro with opera and firefox.

check to see if GPU acceleration is enabled.

 

if may be using software rendering in the browsers for video, and/or your graphics subsystem cannot provide hardware acceleration.

[Copernic Reporter]

Try to disable Flash hardware acceleration / run a malware scan with Malwarebytes. 

 

Get FreeTube or TubePlayer (easy way), Smplayer (advanced), or PotPlayer (advanced) - all of them can play online YouTube videos without flash player installed.

[ultimate99]

7 minutes ago, Mando said:

check to see if GPU acceleration is enabled.

 

if may be using software rendering in the browsers for video, and/or your graphics subsystem cannot provide hardware acceleration.

I have Use hardware acceleration when available enabled in Opera. I don't see anything GPU specific.