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Video of Saturn fly-by

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:17 pm
by Smivs
Nice 'video' of Cassini fly-by of Saturn on APOD today - not CGI but actual images compiled into a flyby.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html

Re: Video of Saturn fly-by

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:59 pm
by Micha
Very nice, but that video technology takes an inordinate amount of CPU, so unfortunately I only saw it at a frame or two per seconds.

Why the bleep do modern web-embedded videos take so much CPU? Ok, so even my 'new' laptop isn't the most modern anymore, but my ancient laptop used to be able to play full-screen embedded videos fine a couple of years ago and it's significantly slower than the new one.
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