Flash (npviewer.bin) uses way more cpu than it should

When I watch flash videos in firefox, npviewer.bin goes up to around 15%. If I full-screen, it uses ~90%. When I download the exact same video and watch it in mplayer, it consumes only 6%.
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Or, are there any alternatives to using flash to view videos?

I've been working around the issue for now by downloading the videos and watching them with mplayer, but this is impossible for many live streams.
I have an ATI Radeon 5650, and am using the Catalyst drivers.
Edit: this may be unrelated but I get the following warning when npviewer is running:
*** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown variable>) in NPN_GetValue()
Last edited by fredre (2011-02-23 20:12:18)

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