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Hulu choppy in fullscreen.

variantvariant Registered User regular
edited April 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
WHY O WHY :x

up to date flash player and firefox.

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  • gundam470gundam470 Drunk Gorilla CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    This isn't H/A, but maybe your video card just can't handle it.

    Hulu get's choppy for me if i'm watching in Hi-Res fullscreen on my second monitor.

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  • variantvariant Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Oh whoops, it's late, totally thought I was posting in H/A...
    I have a 8400M, not exactly a bad video card... it's freakin video!

    I'm able to full screen on Southparkstudios and my dvds just fine..

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  • gundam470gundam470 Drunk Gorilla CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Yeah it was a long shot. Like I said that's the only time Hulu gets choppy for me and all I have is the integrated graphics on my 4 year-old lappy.

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  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Try switching between standard resolution and HD. Sometimes their servers just don't like to respond and upload things in a timely fashion (...or at all, sometimes - interestingly commercials always run smoothly...). You'll keep your place in whatever you're watching and it usually fixes the streaming problem.

    Or just pause and wait for the buffer every 30 seconds.


    ...I don't think I've ever encountered slow-playing flash video outside of streaming problems.

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited April 2009
    Moving to H/A.

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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    UltimaGecko wrote: »
    ...I don't think I've ever encountered slow-playing flash video outside of streaming problems.

    I've had HD Flash problems before with videos from Youtube on my machine without even playing it full screen, and it wasn't due to server problems. I can download the MP4s from Youtube and they'll play fine with any other media player on my PC, but they run like shit with the Flash plug-in. I'm not sure whether to blame it on the Linux version of Flash or not, but it was using 130% CPU and still running like crap. If I use MPlayer the same video only uses 44-51% CPU with the slowest output driver (i.e. no acceleration at all).

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  • Fleck0Fleck0 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I have the same problem with Hulu fullscreen and with netflix streaming.

    I do have a crappy video card but this is a relatively new occurrence, within the last 6 months or so. Like above posters have mentioned it's only with streaming video and only those two sites. My temp solution with Hulu has been to use the little pop-out button, it at least lets me get it to "near-fullscreen" and stay smooth

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  • Marty81Marty81 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I have the same problem, but if I "pop out" the video and maximize the window (not true Full Screen, I know, but close to it), it plays smoothly.

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