Flash Issues on Laptop

Professor Snugglesworth

Laptop Specs Again.

So with this laptop, I've been trying to figure out a way to play HD flash videos (such as the kind found in Youtube or Gametrailers) much smoother, as the videos tend to stutter and skip, especially when compared to WMA format. I could use any advice or downloads that might result in smoother playback.

On that note, I've had similar issues with flash on my (much stronger) PC; after several hours, the videos tend to stutter and skip, and restarting my PC has the videos play smoothly again, sort of like I'm "flushing" my computer.

Anyway, please help me out.

Frem

Unlike WMA videos, flash videos don't use hardware acceleration for decoding. You may be out of luck until Adobe gets around to fixing that. There's been a little discussion about it in the Chrome thread.

Professor Snugglesworth

Well, what normally determines what makes a flash video run smoothly vs stuttering? Is it mostly due to network connections (PC is wired, laptop is wireless)?

I'm certain there must be a workaround to this, at least an unofficial one.

Jasconius

It sounds like you are having memory leak problems.

If it plays fine when your computer is freshly started and it ends up being terrible, that's a memory leak, not a Flash issue.


Alternatively, are you sure this isn't a download problem? I have a pretty shitty work laptop with an integrated graphics chip and it does HD video pretty well.



Standby for the huge train of people to take a dump on Adobe.

Professor Snugglesworth

How would I go solving this memory leak issue (for my PC)?

And what do you mean by download problem (for my laptop)?

Frem

Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »

And what do you mean by download problem (for my laptop)?

He's asking if the video is buffered when it starts skipping.

Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »

How would I go solving this memory leak issue (for my PC)?

Not much you can do; it really depends where the memory leak is coming from. What browser (and browser version) are you using? Does the problem go away if you've restarted the browser?

Idoru

can't your download the HD-flv videos directly:

http://www.haykranen.nl/2008/03/11/howto-download-youtube-videos-using-firebug/

And then play them with VLC ?

Professor Snugglesworth

Well it seems the problem occurs mainly in Firefox, while the videos work fine in IE. Seems I'm not the only one with this problem.

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=de&forumId=1&comments_threshold=0&comments_parentId=345062&comments_offset=0&comments_per_page=20&thread_style=commentStyle_plain

There are some solutions here, but I'm still trying them out.

Professor Snugglesworth

Well, this problem still persists. Upgrading to Windows 7 didn't help, nor did running in IE 32 bit. I'm really not sure why I can't watch HD flash content smoothly. If it's SD, or something around 480p (Hulu), it's fine, and as I mentioned before, WMP also runs with no problems. But HD flash content, especially on fullscreen, is slow and/or choppy.

Please help me out.

ronya

Where possible, download the HD videos to hard drive and play from there?