A) Macromedia + Adobe = :( B) Some flash video player wrappers are much worse than others. Hulu's is particularly slow, Comedy Central's basically refuses to w

A) Macromedia + Adobe = :( B) Some flash video player wrappers are much worse than others. Hulu's is particularly slow, Comedy Central's basically refuses to work on Linux. C) Flash has to do the YUV->RGB conversion internally so that it can composite your poorly-conceived UI on top of it. It's almost immune to hardware acceleration (except in full-screen mode). Then it has to run in the main() thread of an intrinsically memory-gobbling application. D) All of the above