Re: Video playback slowed down.
Haven't thought about it. Lumpo threw a whammy this morning going low!! Down to 2.0 at school, fed 2x glucose 1xsammich,skool tea with 3x sugars and a banana and did not come up. I went in with more glucose and arrived to find she had just gone to 1.2!!! Fed her with more glucose and another sammich and loaded her into the car bound for PMH. By the time we reached the Narrows she was 4.2 so back to skool. I think the threat of more PMH and me stabbing her with the glucogon worked. Not used to her going low. Either day look OK but I would prefer Sunday and suggest from about 11.00 to 15.00 otherwise we will freeze. Your call Dad On 22/06/2012, at 11:35 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Something you could try is: Open System Preferences General and uncheck the “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps” option. People have had success with streaming video in Lion by doing the above. I have not experienced any problem with streaming video in Lion BUT I have always had this setting UNCHECKED! The suspicion is that the background task that takes a snapshot of the memory and system state for each running application is failing behind in taking snapshots when large amounts of RAM are updated. In video streaming by definition the application memory is undergoing large frequent updates. If the suspicion is correct, then instead of dropping work items the snapshot application is trying to process an ever-increasing list of work. The result appears to be CPU starvation to video playback. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 22/06/2012, at 11:16 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/6/12 10:58 AM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Video playback slowed down.
Apologies to the group this was sent in error. Barry On 22/06/2012, at 2:45 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Haven't thought about it. Lumpo threw a whammy this morning going low!! Down to 2.0 at school, fed 2x glucose 1xsammich,skool tea with 3x sugars and a banana and did not come up. I went in with more glucose and arrived to find she had just gone to 1.2!!! Fed her with more glucose and another sammich and loaded her into the car bound for PMH. By the time we reached the Narrows she was 4.2 so back to skool. I think the threat of more PMH and me stabbing her with the glucogon worked. Not used to her going low. Either day look OK but I would prefer Sunday and suggest from about 11.00 to 15.00 otherwise we will freeze. Your call Dad On 22/06/2012, at 11:35 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Something you could try is: Open System Preferences General and uncheck the “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps” option. People have had success with streaming video in Lion by doing the above. I have not experienced any problem with streaming video in Lion BUT I have always had this setting UNCHECKED! The suspicion is that the background task that takes a snapshot of the memory and system state for each running application is failing behind in taking snapshots when large amounts of RAM are updated. In video streaming by definition the application memory is undergoing large frequent updates. If the suspicion is correct, then instead of dropping work items the snapshot application is trying to process an ever-increasing list of work. The result appears to be CPU starvation to video playback. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 22/06/2012, at 11:16 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/6/12 10:58 AM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Thanks for sending the apology, Barry. I was just about to spoon feed my Mac some sugar to see if the video playback speed would increase. :-) Regards, Carlo On 22/06/2012, at 14:46 , Barry Sexstone wrote: Apologies to the group this was sent in error. Barry On 22/06/2012, at 2:45 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Haven't thought about it. Lumpo threw a whammy this morning going low!! Down to 2.0 at school, fed 2x glucose 1xsammich,skool tea with 3x sugars and a banana and did not come up. I went in with more glucose and arrived to find she had just gone to 1.2!!! Fed her with more glucose and another sammich and loaded her into the car bound for PMH. By the time we reached the Narrows she was 4.2 so back to skool. I think the threat of more PMH and me stabbing her with the glucogon worked. Not used to her going low. Either day look OK but I would prefer Sunday and suggest from about 11.00 to 15.00 otherwise we will freeze. Your call Dad On 22/06/2012, at 11:35 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Something you could try is: Open System Preferences General and uncheck the “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps” option. People have had success with streaming video in Lion by doing the above. I have not experienced any problem with streaming video in Lion BUT I have always had this setting UNCHECKED! The suspicion is that the background task that takes a snapshot of the memory and system state for each running application is failing behind in taking snapshots when large amounts of RAM are updated. In video streaming by definition the application memory is undergoing large frequent updates. If the suspicion is correct, then instead of dropping work items the snapshot application is trying to process an ever-increasing list of work. The result appears to be CPU starvation to video playback. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 22/06/2012, at 11:16 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/6/12 10:58 AM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe -
Re: Video playback slowed down.
Hey Carlo, for that you need to use use the SPS port just to the left of the TSB port hidden inside the K-Slot. To do this you need a toothpick, or a bent paper clip, to insert the granules, one by one. Only use caster sugar though, as anything larger will cause a kernel panic. Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net On 22/06/2012, at 2:50 pm, cm wrote: Thanks for sending the apology, Barry. I was just about to spoon feed my Mac some sugar to see if the video playback speed would increase. :-) Regards, Carlo On 22/06/2012, at 14:46 , Barry Sexstone wrote: Apologies to the group this was sent in error. Barry On 22/06/2012, at 2:45 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Haven't thought about it. Lumpo threw a whammy this morning going low!! Down to 2.0 at school, fed 2x glucose 1xsammich,skool tea with 3x sugars and a banana and did not come up. I went in with more glucose and arrived to find she had just gone to 1.2!!! Fed her with more glucose and another sammich and loaded her into the car bound for PMH. By the time we reached the Narrows she was 4.2 so back to skool. I think the threat of more PMH and me stabbing her with the glucogon worked. Not used to her going low. Either day look OK but I would prefer Sunday and suggest from about 11.00 to 15.00 otherwise we will freeze. Your call Dad On 22/06/2012, at 11:35 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Something you could try is: Open System Preferences General and uncheck the “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps” option. People have had success with streaming video in Lion by doing the above. I have not experienced any problem with streaming video in Lion BUT I have always had this setting UNCHECKED! The suspicion is that the background task that takes a snapshot of the memory and system state for each running application is failing behind in taking snapshots when large amounts of RAM are updated. In video streaming by definition the application memory is undergoing large frequent updates. If the suspicion is correct, then instead of dropping work items the snapshot application is trying to process an ever-increasing list of work. The result appears to be CPU starvation to video playback. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 22/06/2012, at 11:16 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/6/12 10:58 AM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -
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Hi Adrian, Do you have the latest Flip4Mac for Lion installed? http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.asp?prodid=flip4macwmv A lot of YouTube videos use Flash Player. Lion does not have Flash Player installed as it prefers HTML5 for online video. There was a bug in the Flash Player plugin for Lion. I have not heard if it has been fixed. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Thanks Ronni, I have updated Flip4Mac and Perian is up to date, the local WMV files now play OK but the problem still occurs on youtube clips. I uninstalled Flash Player.plugin and flashplayer.xpt from Hard Drive Library Internet Plug-Ins and re-started but the clips wouldn't work and it downloaded a file cps42IRMGFE. I reinstated the flashplayer files one at a time but the problem returned with them. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 6:06 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Do you have the latest Flip4Mac for Lion installed? http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.asp?prodid=flip4macwmv A lot of YouTube videos use Flash Player. Lion does not have Flash Player installed as it prefers HTML5 for online video. There was a bug in the Flash Player plugin for Lion. I have not heard if it has been fixed. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Adrian, You have to uninstall a older version of Flash Player correctly before installing a new version. http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-mac.html Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 21/06/2012, at 6:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni, I have updated Flip4Mac and Perian is up to date, the local WMV files now play OK but the problem still occurs on youtube clips. I uninstalled Flash Player.plugin and flashplayer.xpt from Hard Drive Library Internet Plug-Ins and re-started but the clips wouldn't work and it downloaded a file cps42IRMGFE. I reinstated the flashplayer files one at a time but the problem returned with them. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 6:06 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Do you have the latest Flip4Mac for Lion installed? http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.asp?prodid=flip4macwmv A lot of YouTube videos use Flash Player. Lion does not have Flash Player installed as it prefers HTML5 for online video. There was a bug in the Flash Player plugin for Lion. I have not heard if it has been fixed. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/6/12 10:58 AM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Adrian, Something you could try is: Open System Preferences General and uncheck the “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps” option. People have had success with streaming video in Lion by doing the above. I have not experienced any problem with streaming video in Lion BUT I have always had this setting UNCHECKED! The suspicion is that the background task that takes a snapshot of the memory and system state for each running application is failing behind in taking snapshots when large amounts of RAM are updated. In video streaming by definition the application memory is undergoing large frequent updates. If the suspicion is correct, then instead of dropping work items the snapshot application is trying to process an ever-increasing list of work. The result appears to be CPU starvation to video playback. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 22/06/2012, at 11:16 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/6/12 10:58 AM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Thanks again Ronni and Neil, Yes Neil it is down to Youtube and checked the internet connection and Ronni I am pleased to report that unchecking the Restore windows option seems to have done the trick or at least a combination of all your suggestions has. I have tried several Youtube clips and all but one of them played without a problem so I conclude that the one that still displayed the problem is a bit dodgy in itself. Thanks again. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 22/06/2012, at 11:35 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Something you could try is: Open System Preferences General and uncheck the “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps” option. People have had success with streaming video in Lion by doing the above. I have not experienced any problem with streaming video in Lion BUT I have always had this setting UNCHECKED! The suspicion is that the background task that takes a snapshot of the memory and system state for each running application is failing behind in taking snapshots when large amounts of RAM are updated. In video streaming by definition the application memory is undergoing large frequent updates. If the suspicion is correct, then instead of dropping work items the snapshot application is trying to process an ever-increasing list of work. The result appears to be CPU starvation to video playback. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 22/06/2012, at 11:16 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/6/12 10:58 AM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Video playback slowed down.
Hi everyone - hope you don't mind me jumping on this question with a related issue I have recently purchased a macbook pro 2.8 intel core i7 4gb ram 1333 mhz ddr3 lion 10.7.4 I have used the transfer my mac utility from my older macbook The issue I'm having is that some of the apps are VERY slow - much slower than the old macbook (albeit i did max the ram on that unit). Preview in particular is the worst offender. I have done the obvious - used disk utility to repair permissions and with a 750gb drive with loads of space on it, I can't see anything that is an obvious factor. My web search indicated that sophos may be slowing it down. Would appreciate any suggestions, many thanks in advance (and Ronnie, pls don't stop whatever you are doing to be first to reply ;) Best regards Justin Davies On 22/06/2012, at 11:35 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, Something you could try is: Open System Preferences General and uncheck the “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps” option. People have had success with streaming video in Lion by doing the above. I have not experienced any problem with streaming video in Lion BUT I have always had this setting UNCHECKED! The suspicion is that the background task that takes a snapshot of the memory and system state for each running application is failing behind in taking snapshots when large amounts of RAM are updated. In video streaming by definition the application memory is undergoing large frequent updates. If the suspicion is correct, then instead of dropping work items the snapshot application is trying to process an ever-increasing list of work. The result appears to be CPU starvation to video playback. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 22/06/2012, at 11:16 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/6/12 10:58 AM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni Jane, I have downloaded the Flash Player uninstall and run it, downloaded a fresh copy of the player and installed it, I also reset Safari but all to no avail. I also tried playing the same You Tube clip with Firefox and Chrome and they are worse than Safari. I will have a look at some another You Tube clip after lunch (got to go out for a while now) and see if they all act the same. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 21/06/2012, at 7:49 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Hi Adrian I had been having the same problem with stuttering Youtube videos. This Apple Support Discussion gave the solution that worked for me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3729955?start=0tstart=0 Go to SafariReset Safari… tick all boxes and click Reset. This did the trick for me, the Youtube videos now play smoothly. Worth a try! Cheers Jane On 21/06/2012, at 4:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good afternoon all, For some reason Video Replay on my iMac (OS 10.7.4, 27 i7, 16GB ram and 360 Gig of free space) has slowed down when playing WMV clips (local) and clips via the web (youtube etc.), they play for a few seconds stop load a few more seconds and play again and so on. Tech Tools Pro 6 says that it passed the Memory and Video Memory tests OK. Clips stored on the computer like MP4, DV, MOV AVI play via QuickTime Player and M4V via QuickTime Player 7 all play OK. This started recently and possibly with an update of VLC but I cant be sure. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Hi Justin, Thanks for asking me not to stop what I was doing to answer your query. I'm waiting for a computer to backup before I do more work on it. Lion should be faster than your previous Operating System, not slower. Only I would like you to have more RAM - 8GB :-) Sophos Antivirus certainly slows any Mac down but more so on a Lion Mac. If you don't really have to have it installed, I suggest you 'Uninstall it'... A bug in Sophos causes it to greatly slow down Macs running Lion. A large number of users have complained about Sophos Antivirus slowing down their Mac, especially in Lion. Some are reporting that this started with an update to Sophos, others are unsure of exactly when they noticed the slowdowns. One thing's certain though, if your Mac is slow, and you have Sophos installed, it's likely that uninstalling it will greatly improve your Mac's performance. If you still don't wish to uninstall Sophos continue reading ;-) I presume you did NOT do a ‘Clean Install’ of Lion but did an ‘In-place Upgrade’ on the same partition as Snow Leopard was installed on. I also presume you did all the necessary preparations before upgrading to Lion, (such as updating all your applications to Lion compatible versions, repair permissions on Snow Leopard, and did a backup). And you also did the ‘Post-Installation’ tasks (such as allowing Spotlight to completely finish its Re-Indexing of the HD, running Software Update installing all updates, repairing permissions, letting Time Machine do its initial complete backup). Did you allow Spotlight to re-index the drive after you transferred from older MacBook to new MacBook Pro? If you have done all the above and Lion is running slow: 1. Shut down your computer 2. Boot the computer while holding down the OPTION key, then select “Recovery HD” and press Return 3. Once booted in Recovery mode, select Disk Utility. Select your Mac HD. 4. Repair Disk 5. Then ‘Repair Permissions' It will most likely show quite a number of problems during this process and repair them. 7. After it is finished, restart your computer. Spotlight will most likely re-index your drive again … if it does … let it complete the process without running any other programs. If you find Lion is still running slow, post back letting us know if it is slow to boot up, or mainly just slow running which applications. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 22/06/2012, at 1:09 PM, Justin Davies wrote: Hi everyone - hope you don't mind me jumping on this question with a related issue I have recently purchased a macbook pro 2.8 intel core i7 4gb ram 1333 mhz ddr3 lion 10.7.4 I have used the transfer my mac utility from my older macbook The issue I'm having is that some of the apps are VERY slow - much slower than the old macbook (albeit i did max the ram on that unit). Preview in particular is the worst offender. I have done the obvious - used disk utility to repair permissions and with a 750gb drive with loads of space on it, I can't see anything that is an obvious factor. My web search indicated that sophos may be slowing it down. Would appreciate any suggestions, many thanks in advance (and Ronnie, pls don't stop whatever you are doing to be first to reply ;) Best regards Justin Davies -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
