Re: Stuttering video?



On Jan 30, 2008 12:14 PM, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do other people notice performance "difficulties" with tasks like
viewing YouTube videos on Firefox with Ubuntu 7.10? I notice that on my
system (more than a gig of RAM, it's at least 1.1 ghz for the processor)
there's quite a bit of stutter. The system load isn't high at the time.
Is this a limitation of the plugins for Linux Firefox? I'd wonder if
it's my broadband connection, but the meter at the bottom of the player
shows that there's quite a bit of cached video ahead of the current read
point.

My daughter has a system that, while not as high as my system is
comparable to the specs I named above and she complains about this issue
(running xubuntu 7.10); it should have more than enough horsepower to
play these videos under Windows, but I don't know why it would stutter
under Xubuntu (and my system with Ubuntu) unless it's a problem with the
implementation of the plugin or codec running in Firefox or I have
something misconfigured.

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The flash plugin is made by Adobe, not Ubuntu. Yes, it is not as
efficient as the Flash Plugin for Windows/IE. It's something Adobe has
been working on for a couple of years now.

You can check your current version by typing about:plugins in the
Firefox address bar. The current version is 9.0 r115 you can get it
from here - http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Firefox is also a bit of a hog in it's own right. My girlfriend and I
have identical systems, when she loads Windows XP, with
Firefox/Flash/YouTube it has a tendancy to crash Firefox, but it works
fine with IE. So it would either boil down to Adobe not making the
plugin good enough for FireFox, or FireFox just using the plugin
wrong. The mozilla forums are riddled with complaints about this, and
it's been worked on for the 3.0 release of FireFox.

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