On November 12, I used my Mozilla browser to open up lots of GameSpot movie tabs, as usual, knowing well that the videos won't load until I view those tabs, and the other stuff in that page can silently load while I view another, current one.
My PC hung, for minutes while it sorted all those new video playing instructions. While the videos appear to have better quality now, the new GameSpot video player appears to gobble up lots of memory and CPU capacity, especially when it is run in multiple tabs.
Videos don't appear to initialize in some cases either.
Update #1:
For perhaps what is the nadir for the new GameSpot video player, users are subjected to a terrible noise substituting for the audio in trailer for C&C 4.
Update #2 (Nov. 24):
It would appear that the new player doesn't do a good job in making sure everything that has been streamed into my browser (Mozilla Firefox) stays in the memory allocated for the browser. Replaying a video would seem to require a refresh of the entire video (resulting in a minor but unacceptable hitch in playing a video again from the start). Also, seeking specific moments in a video is quite busted for some videos, such as the recent trailer for the addition of Dark Elves to Warhammer Fantasy: Blood Bowl.
Someone's Flash programming really sucks.
Comments
Well, newly released stuff that has yet to be publicly tested tends to have such problems.
The 3d software is unstable and memory hogging enough as it is.
Perhaps you can tweak your browser such that it won't load the 3D stuff. The video player requires the newest Flash browser plug-in, so have you looked at the problem from this angle?
Really? This suggests that the player hasn't really been optimized to account for every possible combo of PC hardware and peripherals.
mrhuntin